The big wedding dress timeline
Need to know when to start shopping for your wedding dress? When to start stocking up on nude knickers? When to schedule your fittings? When to start flippin’ out? (Hint: never!) This is your Offbeat Bride wedding dress timeline guide. Here’s a run-down of all the necessary steps to acquiring your rad wedding outfit in a lower-stress way.
All stressed up with nowhere to go: 8 tips to de-stress wedding dress shopping
Planning your wedding dress shopping strategy and getting all stressed up with nowhere to go? It’s time to take a step back and look at your priorities. We’ve compiled a few tips to take back the dress shopping experience and de-stress the whole damned thing. Go from stressed up to dressed up in an outfit about which you’ll feel awesome. Here are some tips to de-stress wedding dress shopping.
How to shop for a wedding dress like a software engineer
I work for a software company, and regularly we ask, “What customer problems are we trying to solve?” Since I am the target customer, and the wedding dress is my solution, let’s take an Agile approach here.
Don’t let the “Bride Again” stigma dictate your next wedding dress choice
I remember so clearly shopping at plussizebridal.com (which no longer exists). It’s where I bought my fabulous purple wedding dress. There was a section on the site, though, that gave me chills. It was called “Bride Again.” Dresses in beige, off-white, and tans, each more matronly then the last — dresses that looked like something you might wear to an Easter church service but somehow more conservative. Like bizarro funeral garb. Some of the ugliest off-color dresses I have ever seen. I just remember thinking, “I don’t want to do this twice… Breathe, cross your fingers, shut out all the doubt, and get on with it.” And I did.
How to spot and avoid the wedding vendors that are faking it to make it
So what can you do to avoid the fake wedding vendors? Don’t be put off — these fakes are the exception to the norm — but do be smart and do your research.
There are some fairly easy steps to gage how genuine a creative business is, and how good they actually are…
Open thread: How should an offbeat wedding guest dress?
“I am generally under-dressed at formal weddings or I end up buying a dress that is boring, wear it once, and donate it. I don’t even know where to look for some cool, offbeat wedding guest dresses. I even googled “dresses to wear to formal weddings” and was overwhelmed by blandness.
I guess basically, can someone tell me (and probably others) what an offbeater wears to a formal gig?”