Shopping For Your Maternity Wedding Dress

By Andrea Hanly

For the average bride, shopping for the perfect wedding dress can be overwhelming and challenging. But if that bride also happens to be pregnant, it can be a very emotional experience as well. Most brides-to-be don't fantasize of white doves, candied almonds, and a protruding baby belly sticking out from under their fantasy dream dress.

For the pregnant bride, there's one piece of advice that you must take before you can really have the perfect wedding day and that is, acknowledge your pregnancy, welcome it with open arms and then go out there and parade it for all the world to see! You are a strong, beautiful and pregnant bride and you're loved, in love and ready to take on a wedding and motherhood all at once! Let the people around you see how fabulous and together you really are. Show them you can take on anything, take it all at once and handle it with grace and panache!

Here are a few tips and reminders that you should bring with you when shopping for your maternity wedding dress. There are many styles and designs of maternity wedding dresses and because of that, there is no reason for you to purchase an average wedding dress in a few sizes bigger than your regular size in hopes of altering it to fit when you get married. Maternity wedding dresses are designed to fit like a glove when you get married all while making room for baby and not needing hundreds of dollars in alterations.

Your belly may be four sizes larger on your wedding day, but the rest of you won't be. Purchase a maternity wedding dress because it will be designed to house your growing baby in beauty and style without needed expensive and complicated alterations. Of course you'll have to have a few parts fitted to your body, but so does every bride and that fitting should not cost an arm and a leg. In the end month of pregnancy, your body will surely grow quickly, therefore, if you're marrying during that time, check with the company your buying or ordering your dress from because it will probably be wise to get one size bigger.

One final bit of advice is to not put off getting your dress because you don't think you'll fit into it. Maternity wedding dresses are made to fit pregnant bodies. Best wishes for your happiest of days, happiest of pregnancies and happiest of lives! - 29871

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