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I went today, and found that the dresses I thought I would love didn't look as nice on, and the ones I thought looked ugly online / in magazines, looked really nice on me!!!

Anyone else notice this? I was shocked at some of the dresses I liked

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I have seen some dresses on the hanger that looked soo gross but they looked amazing on me. THere were some dresses that I feel in love with just by looking at pics on the comp when in person they looked blahhh. My dress looked amazing in the pics and in person

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Yeah, everything I thought I wanted wasn't 'the one' and what I thought I didn't want I got.

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that is exactly what happened to me!
i wound up ordering a gown i never would have tried on or liked in a magazine. the only reason i tried it on was out of desperation and b/c it was sparkly.
i fell in love.

most of the dresses i loved in magazines looked AWFUL on me.

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I thought I was going to hate dress shopping lol, but it was actually a lot of fun! I can't wait to take back my MOH and have her help me decide. . .I found like 4 I liked (really 3, my mom liked one a lot so I had the girl write it down)

It was just weird the dresses I liked. . .oh well haha.

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yup that totally happened to me, the dress style i wanted looked horrible on me and what i thought wouldn't look good, looked great!

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I hear SO many girls say this!! The absolute last dress they would've picked off the hanger ends up being the one they choose!

My dress is top to bottom lace, which I NEVER thought I would like, but when I put it on, I just loved it. So strange that it seems to work out like that for so many girls...

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Actually the dress I ended up getting was in my album of dresses I liked, I had no idea because it looked so different in person

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YUP thats why its such pain in the @ss to find a dress haha

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Yup happened to me!! I ended up ordering a dress that was everything i said I DIDNT want lol I guess you just never know until you try

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Try EVERYTHING on! You never know. They always look different in pictures, on hangers and on you! I found that out too. One I probably passed on the website that I went through a million times is the one i bought! Dress shopping is funny! Good luck!

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yes but with BM dresses i only tried on 1 wedding gown and i bought it!! lol

i fell in love with a few BM dresses but when i saw them in persn i hated them

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There are just too many gowns out there!! Originally I clipped out pictures of wedding gowns that I liked and most of them were princess ball gowns.

On a whim went to Macys Bridal Studio to start looking there. I am 5'7' and medium build with hips. The sales person (Nancy) was extremely helpful, after trying on a couple of ball gowns that looked amazing, I realized that they didn't look that amazing on me. Nancy looked me over and suggested a mermaid/modified trumpet shaped gown because I had a 'shape'. I was absolutely against wearing mermaid/trumpet gown; I had a bad experience with one of those shapes for a bridesmaid gown. But finally she convinced and and wouldn't you know it, I fell in love with that shape.

I would recommend going to a sales person that has experience. Make an appointment on a weekday and take off of work, that way, they can devote more of their attention to you.

I actually didn't purchase my gown from Macy's, but the sales person's opinion made my search a lot easier and narrowed down the dress styles a lot.

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yeah same thing here - i had the ones i wanted to try on - from online & magazines - and i didnt like how they looked & then the owner of the boutique brings out this dress & im like no no i dont like it. and hes like just try it on i think ur gonna love it. so what do you know i tried it on and im like omg this is the one. and what do you know i tried on like 20 other dresses and went back to that one that i first tried on cuz i knew it was the one.
even looking at pics of my dress i still dont feel like its the same dress when i tried it on.

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That happens to me alot. i love something on the rack i out it on and hate it lol i readin magazines and saw on wedding shows that you should try on things you normally wouldnt

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Same here!!!
I had only picked out one dress online because 'that was my dress!'
Well when I put it on, I was like NO WAY!!!
My MOH picked me out a dress and I didnt like it on the hanger at all... I put it on and thats the dress I got!

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That happened to me. Out of all the dresses I actually wanted to try on, only one looked really good on me (if I was getting married in the summer, probably would have been the one). The sales woman showed me a dress she thought I'd love, and when I saw it, I was like, eh, can't hurt to try it on. As soon as I saw myself, I knew it was meant to be my wedding dress.

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I went in there with an idea of what I wanted (actually what I thought would look good on me) and they didn't! I didn't even want to try my dress on, but the women helping said 'please, i think it will be great' So I did....and fell in love. And then I went to look it up on the website and I still don't like it in the pic!! But I have a pic of me in it, and it's perfect!! hahaha go figure!