Fashionable Maternity Wedding Dresses
The pregnant bride is a little more common than she used to be just a few decades. Being with a child before you are married is no longer taboo. Believe it or not one in five brides is pregnant nowadays when they walk up the aisle. Of course not all of those brides have baby bumps that are showing. Still the fact that twenty percent of brides are pregnant has spawned a whole new genre of wedding dress known as the maternity dress wedding gown.
The fact is that the traditional style of wedding dress often has a tight waist so new designs are in order to accommodate growing bellies. It is quite hard to fit into a normal wedding dress when you are expecting because many of them are so tailored and restrictive. Many of them actually have corsets that make it difficult to breathe.
Also if you are pregnant you may not necessarily want to be wearing high heel shoes. That is why flip flops; ballerina slippers and even running shoes have been blitzed up as wedding wear for brides to be.
If you do want a tailored wedding dress you usually have to order them three to six months in advance. The problem is that few pregnant brides know what size they will be in a few months when it comes to walk down the aisle.
Usually the “design solution” is a dress with an empire waist. These dresses are fitted under the bust under the bustline and then the fabric falls to the floor. This means that the size of your belly when you do walk down the aisle is not going to matter. The dress will expand with you as your pregnancy does.
There are also some beautiful Greek Goddess and A line styles out there that also look very nice on pregnant brides. Usually the bigger and more “float” the skirt the better it will look. The more fabric that is draped around you the easier it will be to conceal the pregnancy if that is your intention. However that is not usually the goal of some brides. Many get dresses sewn that actually showcase the roundness of their belly because they are proud to have a new baby on the way.
Don’t be afraid to show your pregnancy when walk down the aisle! The trend now is to choose a dress that will really show it off!