Brides that are whiter than your wedding dress....

Original post by PinkSoil

Jul 29, 2005 08:00 PM

I am like the whitest person alive. I'm wearing an ivory and gold dress.... But I am so white!! I don't know what to do. I don't want to go tanning because besides the fact that I'm very pale, I have nice skin and I'm really not into ruining it for the future. When I do go in the sun, I don't even tan... I turn red. I heard that the spray on tan can be uneven and orange. I tried Jergens Natural glow and it's pretty good, but of course I can never apply it evenly. What are all the other pale brides doing?

PrincessRose Posted: Jul 31, 2005 10:40 AM

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I am Casper the Friendly ghost and I wore a white dress. I didn't go tanning. I looked beautiful, everyone commented on it.

Really, be who you are. You already said you had nice skin, so embrace it and love yourself.

cjb88 Posted: Jul 31, 2005 10:44 AM

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im not doing anything... people keep trying to talk me into spray tanning... no way! that is just not me... i am white... see-through white and i have accepted it! It is just who i am!

im also prohibiting my BMs from tanning or spray tanning before the wedding... if they look super dark it will just make me look even whiter, so i figured we could all be white together!!

Goldi1021 Posted: Jul 31, 2005 11:38 AM

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I am one of those people who thinks a bride should look like a small extension of her regular everyday self. It irks me to see brides that look like over tanned painted ladies. I am sure that most of us werent all made up and tan the day we met/fell in love with our FH's/DH's. JMO.

palebride Posted: Jul 31, 2005 11:47 AM

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As the self-proclaimed Palebride....i say love your fair skin!!! I didn't go tanning, and I wore a diamond white gow, so it didn't belnd into my skin.
But people are constantly commening on how beautiful my skin looked in pictures.

I see it this way - if you're normally pale, you want to look like yourself in your pictures. You don't want to look back on your wedding day and not recognize yourself.

PrincessRose Posted: Jul 31, 2005 12:35 PM

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I was hoping you'd reply to this one, Lori.

nferrandi Posted: Jul 31, 2005 02:57 PM

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You should definitley give the spray tan a try. Do it now so if you decide you don't like it, it will go away before your wedding. A bunch of my friends did it for our friend's wedding and it looked GREAT!