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Let’s be real—I ordered my wedding dress TWO WEEKS before our elopement. I’m 5’2”, about 200 lbs, and had a baby 8 weeks before we flew out to North Carolina’s Pleasure Island (right outside Wilmington, where Kure Beach and Carolina Beach are). So, yeah. The panic was real. I wasn't looking for "perfection"—I just wanted something that wouldn't make me cry in the fitting room and wouldn't cost more than…

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I got married at 24 weeks pregnant. 5’4”, 175 pounds, short torso, round belly that wasn’t playing hide-and-seek with nobody. Bought a size 16W maternity wedding gown. And lemme tell you, finding a wedding dress for baby bump that didn’t make me look like a beached whale or feel like I was suffocating? That was a whole journey. First panic: lace. I swore I wasn’t gonna do lace because I just knew it would dig right…

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I’m so glad I went with this high low wedding dress for my second wedding. The first time around, I did the whole big ballgown thing—beautiful, but also heavy and kind of a production. This time I just wanted something that felt like me, and I really didn’t want to spend a ton. Under $100 was the goal. I wasn’t sure I’d find anything that actually looked bridal at that price. But this lace and chiffon midi dress sur…

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I was that person. Ordered four different dress for our anniversary dinner, returned three, and nearly gave up and wore an old standby. The one I kept? It came down to the skirt. I was skeptical about a bubble hem. Kept picturing something that would make my hips look wider, but this one cinches right at the waist and flares just enough to hide the parts I don't love while still showing some leg. Plus it has a little swing when you walk…

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Hi girls, so I have to tell you about this black mermaid dress I bought last month. When I ripped open the package – my cat actually got to the box first and left a claw mark on it, but the dress survived, thank goodness – I was half expecting to have to send it back. But then I tried it on, and yeah, I knew right away my wallet was going to hurt, but in a good way. It all started because my husband's work gala had this 1920s theme, a…

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