Wedding Forum - How do you find a wedding dress with...

to be honest strapless seems to be standard, you should be able to add a bolero or shrug if thats what you looking for, i know a bride that god a strapless gown and had an organza coat type thing over her dress it looked amazing!

is this the kind of thing your looking for?

I know exactly what you mean, I really want sleeves on my dress but it's so hard to find! Pronovias have a few but they are quite pricey, beautiful though.
If you just want straps any good alterations person should be able to make straps to add to any strapless dress, ive tried a few on and they have pinned pretty tule straps on and it totally transforms the dress it's great.
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I don't think i saw any when i was trying dresses on but i did see a couple with matching boleros that looked lovely teamed together xxx

Strapless is a lot cheaper to make and mass produce since they don't have to worry about fitting fiddly sleeves. Do you need full sleeves or will sorter sleeves work as well? I've put a link on my wall to a site with various coverage options. It's American but it's the only place where I've seen all the coverage options in one place.

Have to say I think I am gonna have the same issue (am going actual dress shopping within the next couple of weeks). Almost every dress I see whether it be online or in windows are all sleeveless, and dagnabbit I want sleeves! Strapless really doesn't look right on me as I have very little to no chestage and that 'look' makes me appear even worse lol - this is about the only thing I sure of when it comes to styling ;-).
The only thing I thought of, in case I really couldn't find one, was a see-through 'poncho' type thing to go over the top and be all floaty - possibly instead of a veil.

floateelight, I am also small chested and thought I wanted straps/sleeves, and have ended up with strapless. When trying it on the put bra cup things inside (which they can sew into the dress between outside and lining so they don't show) which, along with boning, gave me some curve. All the ones with sleeves I tried fitted really poorly, I think because of the small chest.

When I was dress shopping the shop did say that any dress that was strapless could have straps added, and some even come with straps to clip on or leave off. I definitely didn't want a strapless dress (absolutely hate them) and said this to the woman in the shop. She showed me a couple of dresses that could have straps made and also some that actually had straps/sleeves already. In the end I found my perfect dress that was off the shoulder.

My dress was actually from Forever Yours and from their Quinceneara collection - which are prom/evening dresses that are made in ivory or white as well as other colours but are not as heavy as wedding dresses. A lot of shops tend to get them in stock and they have more varied styles because of this (including sleeves/straps).