Well, on Saturday my fiance and I, along with my best friend & her fiance went to the wedding of a mutual friend of ours. We were waiting with baited breath to see what her dress would be like as my best friend marries in August this year & me in August next year. The music began & the bride made her entrance, then my friend looked at me with tears in her eyes & said... SHE'S WEARING MY DRESS!! I just didn't know what to say!! We couldn't talk too much about it as her fiance was sat next to her, but she looked so upset.
Since then we've been back to the bridal shop & my best friend has tried her dress on again & I must admit, it looks completely different on her. Me, her other bridesmaid & her mum tried to put her mind at rest, but she's still a little worried. It just made me wonder.. has this happened to anyone else?? & if so how did you deal with it??
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CommentAuthorJill
Aww what a shame! Never good when someone has the same dress as you, never mind wedding dress! Has she gone off it now? Or will there be many people from that wedding going to hers? x
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CommentAuthorslybacon
I think she's more worried about the fact that her fiance's seen the dress she'll be wearing on someone else. There'll only be about 6-8 people from the other wedding at hers, so I guess that's not too bad. Up to now she's sticking with the dress as it's the dress of her dreams & she looks absolutely stunning in it!! jealous.com!! lol! x x
CommentAuthorJill
Ach well if that's the case she should wear it... the chances are the wedding dress will just have looked like any other wedding dress to her fiance, unlike us girls who'd remember he'll probably have forgotten about it already so will be a far off distant memory by next year... I know mine wouldnt be able to remember the dresses of any of the weddings we've been to in the past year - he was best man at his friends wedding in June and when we were talking the other day about the brides dress he had to ask what colour it was (blue btw) so I dont think she'll need to worry x
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CommentAuthorslybacon
Lol! I said the same. I asked my fiance if he could remember what the dress looked like & he thought it had straps - (it was a strapless dress!! lol!). x x
Oh how distressing!!! your poor friend! but as you said it does look completely different on her and her h2b probably will not remember the other dress.
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CommentAuthorlil miss sunshine
by come August everyone will forget what her dress looked like and concentrate on your friend and men are crapp at noticeing things like these they get mesmorised by how bute his bride looks so i would not worry about it too much
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CommentAuthorLisa Ramos
OMG I would be devastated if that happened to me. I'm sure the people who attended this wedding and will be at your friends, won't even realise it's the same dress.
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CommentAuthorUnknown
i can understand why she is upset. i think every b2b would be. was it def the dress?
it is true that the same dress does look different on each person and most people wont even notice. like you said there is only about 8 people that will see it. i take it the bride will be at your friends wedding?
she will have a differnet veil and different tiara and everything so it will look different. but can she not ask the shop to alter it slightly for exampe for sparkle or a hoop underneath to make it bigger or something along those lines?x
CommentAuthormcquire81
Men are predictably forgetful when it comes to what women wear so im sure he wont even notice!Plus if it looks different on her then i dont suspect many others would notice either. Im sure it will be fine xx
CommentAuthorRhiannonollie
men honestly would not remember! So I wouldnt be too worried.
I have to admit though if it did happen to me, i would be upset at first - its only natural.
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CommentAuthorslybacon
Mrs Barker to be - yeah.. it was definitely the same dress.
the bride will be at my friends wedding... but my friend has a full length veil whereas the bride had a short veil which she took off just after the ceremony, so she will look different. Don't think she's too keen on having the dress customised. x x x
CommentAuthorVicky
OMG the chances of that are one in a million there are so many dresses to chose from I just cant believe it... I would worry every dress will look different on different people.. Its just that you want to imagin you will be the only one wearing that style of dress
CommentAuthorMrs-West-2B
Oh bless her, ive been so worried about this happening to me too as my cousin is getting married 2 months before me and i dont know what id do if hes oh has my dress. But everyone is right when they say men really dont remember things like that, even if my oh saw me in my dress before the wedding he probably still wouldnt remember lol x
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CommentAuthorstressed to max b2b
omg id be gutted if that was me!! but i guess on the same note flattered that i have such amazing taste, i dunno tbh if id swap the dress or not though x
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CommentAuthorTrish Goddard
to be honest i wouldnt worry myself.....
every dress looks different of someone else, and id be honoured that we have the same taste in dresses!!
CommentAuthorSoon2beMrsHall
Dress look different on everyone tell her not to worry. She will look beautiful
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CommentAuthorloubyscooby
Tell her not to worry, he wont remember and like others have said no 2 brides look the same in the same dress. If the other bride says something she should just say "we obviously both have excellent taste"
CommentAuthorbecky -mrs firth
the dress lays on every1 differently and she has the long veil and will hav diff hair do and accessories!
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CommentAuthorHoxxyhula
I agree that men will never remember that sort of detail for more than 5 minutes, but can completely understand how upset she must have been! I would be pretty sad if someone else had mine. It turned out that I did actually try one on that my friend is having - as soon as I found out it was struck off the list pretty quickly! x
CommentAuthorsarahuttley2b-[keera
thats a shame,but are they likely to have the same guests? and at least theres a gap between the weddings and like you said it looks totally diff on her so noone is likely to notice anyway.if she likes the dress she should nt let it bother her.x
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CommentAuthorKerrylou
I think the only person who would notice that it's the same dress is the bride who had it too. For guests, unless the dress is something really outstanding (think Gypsy Weddings type outstanding) they all tend to blur into 1. As for the H2B, well he thought it had straps.......says everything. She's bound to be a bit upset at first but I'm sure she'll get over it xxx
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CommentAuthork
i completely understand, i went to my mates wedding in australia a year and a half ago and the dress i had picked out for my big day she was wearing it, since then i have tried on more and got a complete stunner that is nothing like the one she wore and i was originally going for x0x
CommentAuthorslybacon
Thanks so much for all your comments ladies!!
I saw my friend again on Saturday & the good advice you gave me helped to put her mind at rest! THANK YOU! x x
CommentAuthorx ashlil x
ah bless her, hope she is ok now x
CommentAuthorVicky
Really glad that it has put her mind at rest.
CommentAuthorljeh92
Just read your post, glad she feels better now, i dunno how i would feel if that happened to me but h2b wouldnt remember what the other bride looked like so probably wouldnt even notice x
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CommentAuthorUnknown
glad she is feeling better. why dont you try and get her to join here? xx
CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I think the only one that would notice would be the bride that just got married. Most people look and see white dress and that is that and no one will sit and think oooo so and so wore that. Just goes to show they both have good taste for them to both pick the same dress out. Maybe she should have a word with her friend and just let her know that she had already ordered that dress and could she not mention it to anyone at the wedding.
