Bridalrexia
This doesn't surprise me at all. It's about the lengths brides are going to in order to look good on their wedding days and in their wedding photos. From manicures and highlights to liposuction and collagen injections! I love how the brides refuse to give dollar amounts because they know how shocked everyone would be. It's understandable to want to look your best on your wedding day, but there's a such thing as going too far. Why would you need liposuctioned thighs under a poufy dress, anyway?
posted by mo pie at 9:21 AM
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I'm such a bridal loser -- all I bought in preparation for my wedding was a bottle of nail polish (because I didn't own one) and a pair of pantyhose (thought runny hose might be tacky with a white gown). I guess my husband really got cheated.
Strangely, despite the lack of spa days and treatments and plastic surgery, the photos from the event are not so terrible that they have to be hidden from view. In fact, I put one in a frame and hung it on the wall for all the world to see, and no one has ever laughed at it or covered their eyes out of horror.
Doesn't surprise me really, I don't tend to get caught up in the beautification thing and I switched to high quality shampoo & conditioner and am not dying my hair crazy colours until after our wedding next June, so I'll have non-fried, non highlight-stripey hair for the day and the photos.
Weddings defintely do strange things to people's brains. Even my (pretty sensible) mother wanted to instigate a weight-loss pact between the two of us, which just seemed so...unhealthy. I offered her an exercise pact instead, since that's what we both really need.
I admit I've succumbed to a bit of bridal-fitness mania since my engagement in April. I blame the wedding industrial complex. I found a smoking deal on a gorgeous wedding dress about two months after I got engaged -- I wear a size 14 in street clothes, but the dress is an 18 and didn't quite close over the chestal area, so I got my ass to Weight Watchers (after losing 25 lbs. the previous year on my own). I've also joined a 5K training program, but would like to think that I would have done that anyway.
My bridesmaids are also using Abject Wedding Fear as their motivators, even though I don't really care whether they're fat, skinny, toned or pregnant at the wedding. It's madness, I tell you! Now excuse me while I go Google a Fit Brides class for the Austin area....
Melanie
delicateflower.prettyposies.com
weddings do strange things to everyone. I lost a stone for my uncles posh wedding so I didnt look like a whale on the photos.
My best friend now wants me to be a bridesmaid next june and Im obsesses with my weight again!God knows what ill be like for my own wedding! Ill probably call it off coz I cant loose that last few pounds or sumthing stupid!
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