3 Ways to Feel Body Confident on Your Wedding Day
With the exception of those who have competed in beauty pageants or regularly performed on stage, most brides-to-be are not used to being the center of attention. At your wedding, though, you’re the star of the show and all eyes are on you. There is an intense amount of pressure put on brides on their wedding day—especially about how they look at their wedding. Brides are supposed to be the picture of beauty and look your absolute best. Choosing your wedding look—dress, shoes, jewelry, hair, makeup, etc.—can take almost as much preparation as planning for your wedding as a whole. Plus, there are the professional pictures—the ones you’re expected to keep and display for the rest of your life—to consider as well.
All of this pressure is enough to overwhelm any bride and can trigger severe insecurity and body confidence issues on the day when you should feel most beautiful. Your confidence is absolutely the most important part of your wedding day look. Keep reading to learn how to boost your body confidence so that you can look and feel your best when your wedding day arrives.
1. Buy a Dress That Fits
A common yet extremely misguided habit of brides-to-be is buying a wedding dress that fits the body they want, not the body they have. Because of all the pressure they feel to look their absolute best on their wedding day, many brides set lofty fitness and weight loss goals to meet before their wedding.
When you buy your wedding dress months before your big day, do not assume that your body will be any different than it is right now. Buying a wedding dress that doesn’t fit you will just make you feel less confident about your real body if you don’t reach your goals by the time your wedding arrives. Just plan to get more alterations to your dress if you do lose weight or change your body in any other way before your big day.
2. Invest in Alterations
Unless you hire a designer to sew a wedding dress for you from scratch, no wedding dress you find in a store is going to be perfectly built for your body—no matter how much it costs or how high-quality it is.
Investing in alterations for your dress—even if you don’t think any changes need to be made—is always worth it. You’re much more likely to feel comfortable and beautiful in your own skin if your wedding dress fits your body perfectly just the way it is.
3. Wear Shapewear
Don’t knock it until you try it. Consider wearing shapewear underneath your wedding dress to help you keep your body confidence high. Bridal shapewear slims your midsection and accentuates your curves to give your body a smooth, sexy look underneath your wedding dress.
You can find shapewear designed specifically for you to wear discretely under your wedding dress, no matter how revealing your dress is. See some quality examples of bridal shapewear styles in this guide to shapewear for backless wedding dresses from HauteFlair.com.
