Of Brides and Bras: Love Your Wedding Day Lingerie :

“I wanted to scratch myself during the entire ceremony!” I remember my best friend confiding during the reception at her wedding. I felt guilty, because she and I had gone shopping together for her bridal lingerie – and I had been the one to talk her into buying the gorgeous, lace-covered bra and panties ensemble that had caused her itchy misery.

I have also attended weddings where brides were blissfully unconscious of the fact that their bra straps were showing (until they saw the photographs a month later!). And then there’s the bride whose panties started to slip down her backside “So much for something borrowed and something blue,” I overheard her panicked whisper post-ceremony to her mother. “Your blue silk undies were gorgeous – but they’re two sizes too big! Walk behind me so no one will see me wiggle when I try to get them back into place!”

Having experienced the “always a bridesmaid but never a bride” phenomenon more than a dozen times, I can testify that it’s not only the bride who doesn’t always love her lingerie. I personally hate it when a bride asks her bridesmaids to wear dresses with skinny little shoulder straps. I have problems finding a strapless bra. Most strapless bras either slide down my back or are so tight that I can’t even take a deep breath.

Of course it’s not just bras that cause wedding day lingerie issues. I know brides who insisted on donning so-called “shape wear,” which in a former day were known as girdles. These garments may give you an enviably slim stomach – but they don’t make it exactly comfortable to walk prettily down the aisle. Nor do they make it easy to stand through a long reception line.

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