Just think, no more wedding shopping after you’ve found just the right pair. You’d spend more in gas, time, and heartache to find the design you love in another color, if you could find them at all. With a wedding to plan, you’ve got a lot of things to think about besides shoes. But you can’t rest until you get just the right pair, of course.

Fortunately there are many companies that offer the service of dyeing your wedding shoes for a small  fee. They can usually match your handbag, dress, or other color swatch to make your color scheme co-ordinate. Or, you can attempt the job yourself.

The dyer will need something to work with, though.

There are lots of options for providing the servicer with just what they need to match the color to your exact specifications. You know how it is, sometimes getting close to the color but not exact can be worse than a sharp contrast. The dyer can work with a color you request, perhaps something you’ve seen in bridal magazines.

But best of all is a swatch you provide with just the shade of pink you were aiming at. Or, perhaps that blue that is not quite Robin’s Egg but a little lighter than Sky Blue is what you’re aiming for. Whatever the shade may be, if you can supply a sample, the dyer can match it.

With computer controlled techniques, a sensor can judge the precise shade. No need to depend on someone’s subjective talent. After all, they may see that shade slightly different than you do. But with a colorimeter the computer can detect the exact shade of your sample. The dyer then ‘dials’ it in and voila! You have a perfect match.

Not all materials absorb dye the exact same way, though. Satin shoes are a great choice for this technique, since they can be dyed to your exact desired shade. It’s best to start with white, to provide a neutral background for any dye application.

Remember, too, that the shade can appear slightly differently in different lights. To make sure you get (and got) what you want, check the sample and shoe under various lights. Fluorescents will tip the scale a little bit. Incandescents will do better. Best to use natural sunlight, though, even if you plan to have your ceremony indoors.

Knowing how to dye wedding shoes to the shade you want will allow you to have the exact right color for your chosen scheme. Now, on to those pesky hundred other wedding planning things to think about!

Don’t leave this to the last-minute particularly if you are getting your dress made for you as it can become very stressful if the final fitting is left to the last-minute.

This also applies to any other dresses or clothing for other members of the wedding party.

If you are dieting or anticipating reducing weight before your wedding then still get a wedding dress fitting done well in advance and allow for changes to be made right up to the date of your wedding.

Don’t leave the overall choice and fitting of your wedding dress too late as there have been many occasions where brides have been stressed on their wedding day trying to get their dress sorted.

As with any other aspect of your wedding you should try various different wedding dresses to see which one looks the best on you. Get wedding magazines and books and have a look at what other brides are wearing to see what the current fashions are and to find a style that suits you.

It is only through doing this research and trying the dresses on that you will find the one that you will be happiest with.
There are so many styles available that you have a virtually unlimited choice and quite often it is a lot easier to find a pre-made dress than to get one specifically made and find that it is not something you are completely happy with.

You can always have a standard dress modified to your requirements once you know that it is what you want.

Generally this is a cheaper option than getting a dressmaker to make a dress specifically for you as it is not until you try the dress on that you can be 100% sure whether you like it or not.

You can also be assured of the quality of the dress making and the details with a ready made dress and you still have the option to add accessories or make any necessary changes.

Hopefully you will find these wedding dress fitting tips to be helpful.

This might be because wedding gowns are usually so elegant and feminine. It probably also has a lot to do with fantasies about being a princess and a Cinderella, the most beautiful creature at the ball! No one can hold a candle to her beautiful appearance, much like a bride at her wedding.

Modern day brides sometimes opt for something a little simpler. Sometimes simple can be even more elegant than the classic wedding gown with the very long train, which may even seem gaudy to today’s working women.

If brides are fortunate enough to have an antique family heirloom they would probably love to wear their grandmother or mother’s wedding gown. Much of the elegance that the modern day fashion industry designers create is based on the ‘heritage’ or ‘retro’ models of the past. Certainly fantasy princesses must also come to their minds as well.

Wedding gowns of old included many layers and dimensions of satin, lace, beads, ribbon and covered buttons. The veils were correspondingly ornate and ever so dramatic. What fun this would be to wear!

Certainly, tradition need not be a requisite to choosing a wedding gown, and not just the bridesmaid’s can wear colors all the way to black, but even the bride. This may seem weird to some, but black is a very dressy, very classic fashion statement. The fashion design industry has recently declared that wearing black is the number one fashion statement once again.

However, the majority of wedding gowns are probably white, or ecru, a very fine off-white, or eggshell. This ‘absence of color’ is the perfect contrast to be at the center of many pretty pastel bridesmaids’ dresses and the wedding flowers. All of these various combinations must be kept in mind when designing a wedding. The groom and grooms men cummerbunds and buttoniers must also match or contrast well with the chosen color scheme.

Choosing a wedding dress can be difficult, so you need to think about different stylesand whether or not they will suit you. Wearing a short wedding gown is an option, with beautiful matching hosiery and shoes, for a very modern and sophisticated look. A wedding veil for this option could be no more than a ‘pillbox’ type hat, with a short veil. Another possibility for this look, could feature the veil as an elegant component; the veil may be quite long with an ornate headpiece, such as a large silk flower.

This is the happy couple’s day, and they may forego the pomp of a traditional wedding. Quite a lovely idea in this case would be the intimate garden wedding. The bride might be quite properly dressed in a wedding gown that is a peasant style, with a beautiful floral wreath on her head, and flat ballerina slippers.

When you buy your flowers from a commercial florist they will come trimmed, arranged in nice containers with appropriate greenery and generally will be delivered to the venue and set up. Consult with local florists and be up front about your budget. Then if you decide you want to save money by doing the flowers yourself, keep all these tasks in mind.

Consider the time of year that you are getting married when picking your flowers and choose flowers that are in season and readily available. Don’t plan a rose-filled wedding around Valentine’s Day or you’ll pay a premium.

Simpler designs and less exotic flowers will be less expensive. A single large orchid can make a stunning bouquet for the bride, as can a basket filled with wildflowers.

To have your flowers look their most beautiful you will want to be arranging them the day before the wedding, so have the scheduling done for the flowers to arrive no more than 2 or 3 days prior to your wedding and have the time allocated for the trimming and arranging the day before.

Choose a color palette and select bridal bouquet flowers that are in season that fit that palette.  Keep in mind the “extras” like greenery, Baby’s Breath, Eucalyptus, Evergreen sprigs, etc that are a necessary part of any flower arrangement.

Depending on the season of your wedding, you can pick beautiful bouquets from your own garden, or elicit help from friends and family who have green thumbs. If you want specific flowers, plan ahead and get the type and colors you want in the ground early.

Locate wholesale florists in your area. Check to see if you can buy your bridal bouquet flowers direct and what their minimum quantities are.  If you go with a wholesaler, ask how long it will take for the flowers to open—they will probably need a few extra days.

For you as the bride, remember that in time-honoured 19th-century gothic literature the story was always the perfect and innocent young lady with a passionate streak who was seduced by or sacrificed to the dark master of the castle with the bite on the neck that drew blood. It can be very provocative and visually beautiful to duplicate this at your nuptials with a sensual Victorian-style white or off-white gothic wedding dress. Pick out one with flowing long sleeves, a high neck and lots of lace and tulle for the full sacrificial impression.

Gothic themed wedding ceremonies are frequently booked in wintertime or close to Halloween, so you can expect that it won’t be excessively hot, particularly as night time approaches. For the evening, if you’re changing out of your wedding gown, you might want to choose a Morticia-style black satin gothic style wedding dress with hanging sleeves, or a medieval-style dresses in purple or red. Or how about a gothic boned corset in black or deep red? It fits the theme for you and your groom to be dressed alike now that you are married, and you can change your make-up and hairdo to give you that vampish look.

Your jewellery will be all important as well. This is one facet of your costume that can carry-over from the daytime into the evening, and if you pick out darkside jewelry that will go well with both wedding gowns you can create a link that also has a deep symbolic sensual meaning. Slave or maille bangles and choker necklaces are ideal and will put the finishing touches to your gothic wedding day look.

Among the best things about having a Gothic Style Wedding Dress is that your photos will be impressive, so take the time to make the most of that by considering how your dress or dresses will look beside your groom’s outfit so that the two of you make the most of every similarity and contrast that you have. Individuality is the key here and you will find a lot of ideas are triggered by all of the gothic wedding dresses that you will find on the internet. When you are planning your wedding it can help to keep a scrapbook and fill this with ideas as you come across them.

First of all, be sure to have your wedding dress professionally cleaned  as soon as possible once the wedding is over. Be sure to choose a cleaner that specializes in cleaning this types of garment. Next, purchase a container to store the wedding gown in if your garment cleaner doesn’t seal it in airtight material. The container that you select to store your wedding gown will need to be airtight as well. Just be sure that the container isn’t plastic. Plastic containers can trap humidity and eventually damage the contents inside of them. Once your wedding gown is returned from the cleaners, inspect it to ensure that it’s thoroughly clean, pressed, and it looks as if it were brand new. If not, return it to the cleaners and ask them to repair any discrepancies that you find. If, however, everything is fine, store it in an upright position until you’re ready to sell it.

When you’re ready, shop around for a store that is willing to sell your used wedding dress for a commission. The storeowner that you select will inspect the dress to ensure that it’s clean and in good condition. As long as the wedding gown is in good condition, the storeowner will assess the overall style of the dress and its age to determine a good selling price. You may have to take your dress to several shops before you find one willing to work with you.

Once you find a storeowner willing to work with you, you will sign a contract for about three months. If the wedding gown is sold within that three-month period, you should receive fifty percent of the selling price. If the wedding gown fails to sell within three months, both you and the storeowner can agree to extend the contract or to end it.

Of course, if you’re familiar with using the Internet and have some experience with online sales, you can skip consignments shops altogether and sell it yourself from your own website. Or, you could even auction it off on E-bay!

Hopefully this will help you understand more ahout how to sell a used wedding dress. Good luck with it!

Here are the different wedding dress color meanings:

Green – Green is another color of nature, associated with the environmental movement and with the spring season. It  symbolizes calmness and relaxation, harmony, well-being, honesty and freshness.

Red – Red is hot: warmth, love, excitement and desire, but also anger and danger. It is associated with speed, daring, strength and bravery.

Orange – Orange is associated with ‘cheap and cheerful’. Enthusiasm, a bargain, also creativity.

Brown – Brown is an earthy color of course and strongly associated with nature and the fall season. Solid and reliable, relaxing, comforting and honest, it also suggests qualities of endurance.

Black – Black was another expensive dye in the past and so like purple, it is associated with elegance and sophistication. Worn well it can be very slimming. On the other hand it is worn for mourning in the western world and therefore it is linked psychologically with death, negativity and depression. It is also the color of the illegal activities of the ‘black market’, linked with dishonesty and unfaithfulness.

Purple – Purple was traditionally the color of royalty. It has meanings of nobility, prosperity, luxury, elegance, sophistication, mystery and magic.

Yellow – Yellow gets our attention! That’s why bright yellow is used for safety clothing and for highlighting text. Associated with summer and the sun, it speaks of energy and enthusiasm, hunger, optimism and happiness. However, it is also linked with cowardliness.

Gray -  Conservative and traditional, gray is associated with intelligence and seriousness, but it is likely to be seen as dull and boring unless you brighten it up with striking accessories in another color.

Blue – Blue speaks of professionalism: honor, loyalty, trust, dependability, stability and peace. Associated with winter, it is generally a cold color and can imply boredom and depression.

Finally there is the traditional color white, which symbolizes purity, innocence, simplicity and virginity. In the past it was often felt unsuitable for a widow to wear a white wedding gown and she would more often be remarried in a shade such as ivory or cream.

Now that you know all the wedding dress color meanings you can be sure to get the right color for you!

The first thing you need to do is decide on your preference of the design of the dress.  Most brides are up on the latest designs because of the bridal magazines and bridal shows that are put on to showcase the latest trends and fashions.  A bride can, and usually does, make it a special occasion to go out with their bridesmaids, and or their mother, to check out the availability of the dresses that they prefer to wear.

Once a dress design or style has been chosen, the most important thing you can do to get your wedding dress on a budget is to use some of the  multitude of tools at your disposal to do price comparisons.  Prices can be compared in person, in the stores, in the magazines, or online.  Once you have a rough idea of the style, the cost of the dress, alteration costs and the accessories, you can easily reduce the overall cost.  You can do this by asking about the store’s policy on sales, coupons, or discounts, for purchasing multiple items such as the bridesmaids dress and accessories, at the same time.  There are even stores that will allow a payment plan or lay-away plan; allowing the purchaser to pay the cost of the dress over time.

There are some great discount bridal stores out there; again, it pays to check out their ads, their discount programs, and compare those to other outlet stores available to you.  A wedding dress may be able to discount the price by combining a coupon with a sale; or, maybe a dress is being discontinued; possibly, a bride could save money by buying the dress of her dreams out of season.  These are all wonderful, money saving opportunities.  Some brides do not have a strong need to own their dress.  That bride might consider renting her wedding dress along with the tuxes for the wedding party.

If you sews or are fortunate enough to know someone who does then you have an even greater opportunity to save money.  Start out by picking the pattern.  The dress can be made elaborate or not according to budget and sense of personal style.

Another great budget saving idea is to check out vintage clothing stores or look online at sites such as EBay.  A favorite idea of mine is to wear a bridal dress of friends or family members.  A one of a kind dress can be created by taking a bridal dress that was previously worn and adding some updated decorative trimmings.   This money saving technique adds an additional benefit;  the perfect wedding dress on a budget can be created for the bride by combining a dress that she loves, along with a deep emotional connection to the previous bride who wore it.  It also means that you can cross of your “something borrowed” from your list.

Style is another thing altogether.  One of the mothers may be perfectly comfortable in a dress while another may want to wear either a suit or a pantsuit.  Now as long as everyone is in agreement on letting each of them choose what is comfortable to them each as individuals then everything is a-ok.  What often happens though is that someone tries to enforce their style on another.  It is perfectly fine for each woman to look different, as long as, their coloring doesn’t clash with the colors of the wedding party itself.  This is where communication comes in handy.

I have been doing a little research online and have found some wonderful options.  There are businesses online that provide wonderful services to mothers of the Bride and Groom and can help them to find Discount Mother of The Bride Dresses.  For those families planning weddings where distance is a problem…these online businesses are wonderful.  Not only can each woman find the size, style and color that they want to wear…the other person can go to the same business online to see what the other ordered; and, the shade of that item.

What I discovered on some of the websites is that there is something for everyone’s taste on the sites for discount dresses regarding the mothers of the Bride and Groom.  Many of the discount sites have designer dresses, one of a kind dresses, and pantsuits, that will surely please each individual style.  Believe it or not, there were even clearance outfits that were a mere fraction of the cost of their original prices.  The styles are said to be current for the season and I even saw a couple of clearance outfits that were originally over 200 dollars for sale for an amazing 50 dollars.

I even checked their testimonial pages and their clients sounded impressed with not only the outfits; but, the shipping, as well as, the personal service and advice regarding sizing.   One site in particular, Audrey’s Mother of the Bride, impressed me with the layout design of its page.  Their site has beautiful photos of the items; which showed the outfits for sale in detail..  They even have secure ordering form for people who choose to order through their credit cards or paypal account.   The person who does not enjoy shopping in a department store or a bridal shop may really appreciate shopping for their Discount Mother of The Bride Dresses in this way!

If you have a long wedding dress the effect of high heels (not to mention the shoes themselves) may not be visible walking down the aisle. But they will be when you pose for photos, lift the hem to remove a garter, or just sit to have that wedding meal at the reception.

Whatever the purpose, nothing looks quite like a pair of high heel wedding shoes. They define the very word ‘elegant’. The shoe itself is a style that simply is like none other. And, oh my, what they do for your legs!

Sure, high heel wedding shoes (like any other high heels) are going to be a little harder to walk in. But we’re used to it. We know that a pair of high heels is the only way to go when you want to slant that arch and firm that calf, or just gain some height.

You worked hard to gain those nice legs. Show them off! To do that to best advantage a high heel works like nothing else. It tenses the calf muscles, making them a delightful round that will perk up even a jaded groom. If he hasn’t paid you a compliment in days, he will now.

They’re especially good for gals who are, shall we say, a little on the wee side. Not everyone is as tall as Elle MacPherson, darn it. But good things come in small packages and sometimes those bundles just look better with a little bit of extra height.

Of course, what is a high heel to one woman is low to someone else. Lucky for you, you have a whole range of heights to choose from. A pair of six-inch stilettos might be a little extreme for wedding shoes. But those elegant two-inch high-heeled wedding shoes with ankle strap are just perfect. And, if you happen to be getting married in Vegas, those stilettos could be just the thing, after all. The sky, literally, is the limit.

You don’t have to sacrifice style to get height, either.

Want an open toe? No problem. Prefer something with a little more support up front, given that your foot is pushing forward? Easily done. Every color and style imaginable is available in a high-heeled version. You don’t have to limit your choices. It’s your wedding and you can have what you want.

Did you ever think your ankles could look so good? Do you want to make all that work at the gym pay off? Would you like a little extra height? Go for a high heel wedding shoe and get all that in just the style you prefer.