I've been looking for a while now! Getting married july 2015 and it gives you an idea of what you want and if you want to lose weight gives you a boost as you can see your reason why you want to loose it!

Yeah that's true. I don't want to lose any but I do want to tone up!

I'm short too, but doubt I can grow!

Im short too hun 5ft1

There's nothing wrong with going window shopping and even trying diff styles on to see what suits you/what you like x

I'm going on Saturday :-D xxx

I was debating this one too - especially as, until I've picked my dress I don't really know what exactly I want the bridesmaids in. So the comments above have helped ... think I might go sooner than I intended to! :-) I've already bought my shoes though - my H2B is the same height as me so I wanted some pretty ballet pumps so I wouldn't tower over him. Found some fabulous ones in the sale that are covered in iridescent sequins and oh so pretty. I've no idea if they'll go with the dress I end up buying but they were such a bargain I couldn't say no!

Good luck with finding 'the one'!

i got my dress approx. 20 months before the date, so no, its not too early lol

the only thing to consider really, is whether you will change your mind in the run up, i know i keep looking at other frocks thinking oooh i wish id tried that on, i think i need to go put mine back on and remind myself how much i love it lol

i too have been worried that it was too soon for looking at dresses - i have been worried that the dress shops would not make much of an effort with me as wedding not until may 2015. Also for the ladies who have been dress shopping how does it work? Is it like the movies you go in and keep going in and out the dressing room trying on different dresses whilst friends and family sit and wait for you to come out whilst sipping champagne? (i'm sure they don't supply this but would be nice).

Also any brides2B in the devon area can recommend good bridal shops? Feel a bit intimidated by it all x

I bought mine on Saturday :-D xxx

I've had the same Christina, we went into the shop and one of the ladies was really helpful, another one came out of the back and said, when's the wedding, I told her and she went, oh you're a bit early, come back in February. Because I'm young as well, I don't think people take me seriously sometimes!!

Yeah I know what I want anyway. So was going to go in October try some on and order it because they longer I've got to pay for it the better. Just want to know everything has been sorted well in advance haha (control freak alert!!) xx

I started looking around last August to get ideas of what I wanted and then I was going to get it made online at a cheaper price. I picked up a few styles and one that the lady in the shop said may not flatter me because I'm a pear shape and there is a band that sits on the hips. Even my family said I wouldn't like it cause it was too fussy on the bodice. Well it was the one. Ordered it there and then. And now a year later it's all paid for. Just have to go in Jan to have my measurements done.
My mum, grandma and one of my bridesmaids came and sat and had a drink of tea. When I said I'd buy it we got some champagne. Think I tried 4 or 5 on.

I bought and found mine last October (2012) and dont get married until next August. I had originally started looking in July 2012 with my bridesmaids and picked a lacy A A dress but then I drove past a local bridal shop where the dresses are handmade and it was in the window sparkling away and I knew I had to try it on. I went alone to try it on and some colleagues walked past the window and saw me , I fell in love with it and got my parents to take a look and that was that, as if it was fate.

I saw the picture of mine and fell in love with it!

Sod it, I'm gonna go and try it on in October and order it if I still love it xx

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I would start looking soon Clairenina because most shops recommend ordering your dress between 6 and 9 months before the date in order to get it in and have fittings and any alterations done in time for the wedding day. If you are planning to lose weight then you could always order it a size smaller or get it taken in. I ordered my dress in February and it still isn't the shop yet (so that was 8 months ago now!) xxx

im going on 26th to try on dresses and then back again to the same shop on the 27th as they have a sale on...when i made my appointment they did say i need to hurry up as im getting married on 24th May nearly 7 months time and they said most dresses need to be ordered for 6 months x

I'm getting married July 2015 and I chose and started paying for my dress three weeks ago!!! I went 'window shopping' with my mum, tried on a few gorgeous dresses with no thoughts of buying one AT ALL, but they say that when you have the right one on, you know it, and you just have to go for! I absolutely love my dress and I hate that I'm not gonna get to try it on now until 3 weeks before my wedding day. I would say, sure go and try on dresses, there's no reason why not! But also be prepared to fall in love with that one dress because you never know :) oh and also the shop I bought mine in happened to have a 20% sale on the day I went, so there was no question about buying it!! :) x

Its never too early!!
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Linzi Jo, I will probably buy mine 2nd hand or off the internet, I can't afford the ones in the shops, and don't want to pay £££ for a dress I will only wear for a few hrs

Hi Amy, I feel exactly the same. I will be going alone too. I think I'll prefer it that way. I'm also very self conscious.

I'm getting married a few weeks before 7th March 2015... My dress is hanging in my mums house. It was the first one I tried and fell for it... I can't wait to wear it. It's never to early to look. I didn't know what i was looking for or what I wanted... Then I picked it out and tried it on and I knew it was the one for me :D

My dress was £2500, half priced to £1250... It was being discontinued... I'm over the moon !! <3