Wedding Worries

Ok, so I ordered a bridesmaid's dress for my friend's wedding.  It fit great and was a size smaller than I expected to wear. That was 12 before the wedding.  Now it's two weeks before the wedding and the dress came in.

It was SO SMALL.  I told the David's Bridal people that I hadn't gained weight, but that the dress no longer fit. "Oh, the sample sizes strecth out.  So if the two fit, you should get the four. The four the six and so on."  I am looking at her utterly bewildered because no one told me when I purchased the dress. 

So now I need to fit into a dress that is too small because the store doesn't have time to get me a new one.  It's mostly tight in the waist and like armpits I guess.  What do I do?  I only have two weeks and the thing barely even zips!

Can you see if an alteration place can let it out or adjust it?Did you ask the store what they could do or had any input for you

Dude.  It's their fault.  Yell at them.  It really should be their obligation to fix it and rush you a new dress.

Aside from that, drink loads and loads of water to reduce any bloat that you could have, and uh, stay out of the heat, it makes you sticky and swelled up.

Buy a slimming body contour thing, and hope the wedding and reception are short.

I would suggest weights, as that really helped my waistline, but with only two weeks, I'm not sure it would help, and it might actually work against you.

I would suggest doing all of the following:

1. buying a body contouring undergarment
2. take the dress to a seamstress (or the bridal shop were you bought it) to have it taken out - every bit helps!
3. Watching your sodium and simple carbs consumption..

This is a far fetched idea but would you consider talking to the shop again about having them take back the ordered dress and you buying the sample instead? this is assuming the sample is in good condition. I would pressure them into giving you a better deal too..

Hope it works out for you..

That is COMPLETELY their fault.  Do not spen any of your money to fix their mistake.  You need to tell them that they need to call every single David's Bridal store near you to find the dress in the store or ship it overnight.  It can be done.    Even if it needs to be a sample dress.  Some are not that badly messed up.  Talk to the manager and tell them the salesperson did not tell you that fact and they need to fix it.  Unbelievable.  How can they be in the wedding business (the most important day of peoples lives) and have no customer service?

Original Post by eileen12183:

That is COMPLETELY their fault.  Do not spen any of your money to fix their mistake.  You need to tell them that they need to call every single David's Bridal store near you to find the dress in the store or ship it overnight.  It can be done.    Even if it needs to be a sample dress.  Some are not that badly messed up.  Talk to the manager and tell them the salesperson did not tell you that fact and they need to fix it.  Unbelievable.  How can they be in the wedding business (the most important day of peoples lives) and have no customer service?

 THAT

Don't let yourself be uncomfortable at your friends wedding.  The bridal store CAN fix this situation.  They need to fix it, not you.

lots of water and low sodium isn't a bad idea just in case though...

Wow... If the bridal store KNEW the sample sizes were different to the sizes of the actual dresses, they had a responsibility to tell you. That is really bad service, and really unfair.

I would seriously go and complain. I'm not someone who does that a lot - I would have to work up the nerve first - but you should know that YOU are definitely in the right! And those dresses are so expensive, they have an obligation to help you out.

When in high school a friend of mine got her prom dress almost a year before her prom and of course she gain weight so what she did is took it to an alteration place and they took the zipper out and replaced it with a nice fancy ribbon and made the back of the dress like a corset thing. To tell you the truth it made the dress look even better! :) Maybe you could do the same with your bridesmade dress?

Good luck!

this happened to me. i had the seamstress let it out and i wore spanx. don't worry you'll be fine!