Wedding Gown. When you are planning to wear a traditional wedding gown, you will need to shopping for it about four or five months in advance. Most of these types of wedding gown are made to order. It can be the case that a shipment gets delayed, or there are complicated alterations that need to take place once you try it on. The bridal shop will need plenty of time to fix things if you want to avoid that panic of last minute scrambling.
Typically a bride-to-be doesn't have any practice in choosing a wedding gown. Sure, you might have shopped for a formal dress, or maybe even a fur coat, maybe even window shopped for them, but what woman has had a practice run when it comes to buying a wedding gown? As it turns out, practice isn't really needed, but the feeling does add some extra anxiety. As a bride-to-be you should take your time when shopping.
More and more these days, grooms-to-be are tagging along on shopping trips and are more than just a little surprised when they see their future wife come out of the fitting room. This is because they haven't seem them dressed up so much before. It is recommended that the groom come along, so that he can get an idea of the kind of pomp and circumstance a wedding entails and might get excited about it as well.