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‘Budget’ is not a dirty word!
But because it comes with all sorts of negative connotations I just want to say this outright: there is nothing wrong with having a budget. In fact, there is something distinctly right about it. Yes, your wedding is important and yes, you want to feel amazing on the day of it. But should you go…
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“I’m big. They won’t have dresses that fit me.”
Hello, my ‘plus-size’ beauty. In this post I want to demystify the ‘plus-size’ wedding-dress journey for you and, I hope, have you taking a whole new approach to your bridal shopping process by the end of it. I’ve always been on the ‘curvy’ side of things. I was an overweight kid and teased for…
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How to choose a bridal salon, Part 2
Hopefully you have already found How to choose your salon Part 1 and are well-equipped to start thinking about where to start your dress journey and the sorts of questions that you can ask a salon to help you with that. There is one thing, though, that I didn’t include in Part 1 that is…
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Why does this feel so hard?
Before you keep reading, can I just say that if you are experiencing the process of finding your Yes Dress NOT hard and it is instead exciting, joyful and empowering, get out of here right now. Leave: you don’t need this. There are other posts that will be helpful, but not this one. This one…
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How to choose a bridal salon, Part 1.
If you’ve had a bit of a look around my little space on the internet here, you’ll know already that there are a few things that make a difference when you are looking for a bridal gown: who you take with you and what kind of mindset you go in make a massive difference, for…
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Let’s lose ‘perfect’
One of the things we see as bridal consultants are brides who go from salon to salon, trying the same kind of dress again and again in the search for The Perfect Dress. When we get a bride who says she’s been to three salons previously and STILL hasn’t found her dress, we start to…
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‘But what if I choose the wrong dress?!’
Lady, listen to me – there are THOUSANDS of wedding dresses out there you could potentially wear. Do you really think that only ONE of those is your ‘perfect dress’ and that everything else is the ‘wrong’ one, making it critical for you to try HUNDREDS of dresses in MULTIPLE salons before you choose? I…
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To sleeve or not to sleeve?
If I could have a dollar for every time a bride described the dress she dreamed of and then added ‘oh, and it must have sleeves’ I’d be a rich woman. I had no idea before I worked in bridal just how many women HATE their arms. And I’m not talking about ‘plus-sized’ women or…
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Help! I’m an older bride! what rules should I follow?
How do you feel about the title of this post? I am willing to bet that your definition of the word ‘older’ is wholly determined by how old you are at the moment. For my girls in their 20s, 35 might be old – for those in their 30s and 40s it is definitely going…
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Who should you take to your bridal appointment?
One of the things I love most about being a bridal consultant is being witness to the joy of my bride and her people when she finds her dress. This is magnified when she has come with some element of anxiety or dread about the process of trying on dresses. It’s simply wonderful to watch…
Say Yes to Less Stress 