I currently weigh 200 lbs, but I am 6' 1", and back in December when i got engaged, I was my heaviest ever at 213 lbs.
My goal is 185 lbs, but I started trying on dresses in May at about 205lbs. I did find that looking back on pictures only a few hours later made me think “do I really look like that?” but it encouraged me to try even more.

When I found the perfect dress I looked back loved the way I looked in it!!! I was only 10 lbs lighter and just that 10 lbs made me so much more confident to know that when I reach my goal, I will look AMZING!

Remember that we will judge ourselves the hardest! I was 30 lbs. lighter when I met my fiancé. At 170 lbs., I looked ill being so thin and I KNOW I did, but I still compare myself to that weight? even though i think i looked sick? why are women crazy like that?!!! lol
Be confident that you will look amazing, it’s your day and your dress will be made to fit you… and compliment you.

Pick a dress that will compliment your body. the one thing i was told being so tall, was that my mermaid style dress was perfect for me to pull off, and a ball gown made me look massive! it was too much dress for my height. A frame was okay but took away from the length of my legs. Shorter women who like the look of a mermaid need to remember that it MAY make them look stout and shorter than they want, it removes legth from your legs and adds to your torso... with short legs already it can look uneven.

its all in the dress. have an idea of what you want, but let the profressionals show you other ideas too.


Just keep staring at that picture and you will get there! I’m working on mine every day!

... I live abroad and was back home planning my wedding but I want a lose at least 50-60lbs before my wedding. I have no idea how much a dress can be altered and inside I am freaking out that if I actually lose the weight the dress wont fit and if I don't I will look terrible going down the aisle.

I could have written this!
Personally I'm hoping to dress shop in November and hoping to be around 1/2 way to goal then. Hoping it will spur me on to keep going as well as make me pleased with what I've (hopefully) achieved so far..

(Getting Married Early May 2014)

I can agree with @jlo_gemini about comparing ourselves to a weight we used to be. My wedding won't be until Halloween 2015, so I have a lot of time to lose the 25lbs goal I have, but I'm not sure if all this time is a good thing. If I don't reach my goal in 2 years I'll feel really disappointed, but if I reach it too soon, what if I get addicted to weight loss and become an unhealthy weight?

I'm starting at 150 and hope to reach 125-120 by the wedding (I'm a short one). I was 120 in high school, and for some reason I can't stop comparing myself to my HS weight. Then, I was a sprinter and jumper on the track team with a high metabolism and lean muscles. The image of my 18yr old body is burned into my head every time I look in the mirror.

I hope to be 130 by the time I dress shop, sometime next summer.

As long as you have enough time for the dress to come in (some stores need 6-8 months to order a dress), I'd say wait as long as you can! I ordered mine back in August 2012, for my August 3 2013 wedding, because I loved it and was just so excited. In retrospect, I could have ordered a size 4 or even a 2, instead of the 8 that I currently have, and saved tons of $$ in alterations (had to have it taken in 3 times).

Thanks!! It took almost the full year but I did it -- I started my diet in the summer and then using MFP in the fall, and lost about 20 lbs total :-). Now I am just trying to maintain this weight for the next 3 weeks lol.