The moment they met 'the one'
My husband and I met 11 years ago, the old-fashioned way – in a slightly sweaty pub on a nondescript Wednesday night. We got engaged on our 10th anniversary. It wasn’t the endless ‘Will they, won’t they’ questioning regarding our potential marriage that bothered me, but rather, what on earth would I wear?
So it was on a Tuesday morning that I was cinched into a classic Westwood bridal number by Lydia, the in-house bridal expert. I’ll never be able to do justice to the way it feels to be embraced by a boned Westwood corset, but it’s like Spanx on steroids. Timeless but modern. Classy but cool. Genuinely the most comfortable thing I’ve ever worn. There were no group tears or other clichés – other than I did not choose the dress, the dress chose me.
We planned our wedding in seven weeks. I would never encourage the stress of trying to find wedding looks in that time. On top of that, I had the harsh reality of being a mid-size girl trying to shop really high-end. I found a dress that I loved by Alexander McQueen. I needed a size 16. They only had a size 8 and it became so frustrating. I decided I was going to wear something I’ve already got. My husband-to-be wasn’t happy with that and said, ‘I know how much you loved getting dressed up.
One of my top priorities was the dress. I knew I didn’t want a traditional wedding dress. They don’t do it for me. I am a very pasty girl, and white is not my colour. So, after a trip to Harrods where I cried in the changing rooms, I decided to take the search online. A flurry of MatchesFashion and Net-A-Porter boxes arrived. I tried on dresses I thought would be chic on me – and ended up looking either like a toy doll or a drag queen, and not in a good way.
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