Advice: do I buy my dress now or wait until next year? (Read description)
Hi there! So long story short, I got engaged last October and we planned for a September 2026 wedding. It took months of shopping and multiple different stores to find the dream dress, which is the dress in the picture. I was about to buy it, but was waiting for money to come in. The day before I was about to pay for it, I had a doctors appointment and found out I was pregnant with a child due September 2026
The venue was amazing and let us postpone the wedding until September 2027, and my family convinced me not to buy the dress until after the baby’s born, at least 6 months before the wedding because that’s the minimum for how long the wedding dress shop needs in advance to order the dress. My mom said they’ll probably still have the dress, but even the people at the shop said they discontinue dresses all the time so I’m worried to say the least. I’ve had a child before, and I did lose all the weight (from 180lbs to 140lbs) after that baby, and I plan on doing the same for this one. Worse case scenario, I think to myself I can have it altered to be bigger. if my weight loss plan works and I keep losing weight until the wedding, I’ll still need it altered because I’m hoping to weigh less 6 months before the wedding vs wedding day. I’m not sure what to do. What do you think? Buy now at original size (or even a size up) or wait and hope they’re still selling this dress next year?