adminYou will probably be given plenty of advice prior to the day of your wedding.So here are some things you might not have thought about in advance. Wedding dresses are VERY hot. I don’t mean hot in a sexy way, I mean temperature. Unless you get a sheath dress that is very simple, and you aren’t wearing any special undergarments like spanx or a corset, you will be much warmer than you normally are. Stunning wedding dresses can often credit their enchanting appearance to layers of crinoline, taffeta, silk, beading, embroidery, lace, and swarovski crystals.
Unfortunately, all this finery is also the perfect mix to create a very well insulated dress that retains all of your body heat. When you go and try on your dress at the dress shop, you may notice at first that the store is set at the temperature of an icebox. This is to make those trying on the dresses more comfortable. Unless you choose to get a short dress, this unexpected rise in temperature is basically unavoidable. Unfortunately, there are many consequences of this. Other than just feeling warm, it can lead to excessive sweating between your legs which can lead to painful chaffing.
This is not the way you are going to want to start your honeymoon! So, take the advice the wonderful women at Katherine’s Bridal Boutique gave me. Get a small thing of baby powder, and cover your inner thighs with a light coating of it. What they didn’t tell me was the fairly obvious instruction of doing this BEFORE you put on your dress.
Unfortunately for me, the day of my wedding, I was completely laced up into my dress, hair done, etc, and then it hit me, OH NO! WE FORGOT THE BABY POWDER! It felt like a scene out of my Big Fat Greek Wedding. At this point, we realized there was no way we had time to take off the whole dress, and do that, so instead, my wonderful bridesmaid who was a medical doctor and had just completed her obstetrics rotation had the bright idea of me laying on my back and legs up as if they were in the stirrups and she put her head up the layers andlayers of fabric and squirted many poofs of baby powder. Of course at that very moment, the best man brought up the flower girl to have her hair done, and he let out a huge “What on EARTH is going on here!” and got out his camera to try to take a photo. In what I hope was my only bridezilla moment of the day, I let out a scream,”GET OUT! you take that photo, you die!” So long story short, do use a poof or two of baby powder between your thighs to avoid chaffing,and make sure to do so BEFORE you put on your wedding dress. You might also consider having a small fan placed under your table in front of where you will be sitting. If the linens are long, no one will be able to see it. I have had more than one bride express to me that they’d wish they’d had a fan under the table.
Stay hydrated.
This goes hand in hand with the wedding dresses are hot point. It’s a tricky situation. I have seen many brides try to not drink many fluids that day to avoid having to use the restroom, to try and fit in their dresses better, or just plain have been so busy that they forgot to drink some water. Unfortunately, the lack of drinking fluids in combination with the very hot dresses, can quickly lead to finding yourself extremely dehydrated.
Most wedding dresses combined with good shape-wear hide our least favorite parts of our bodies, but they do put our arms and back on display.
Wedding day try this simple 5 minute work out that concentrates on toning your arms and back put together by my friend and personal trainer extraordinaire, Lauren Hefez , that you can do in your own home! For more workouts you can subscribe to Lauren’s youtube channel. — Online.
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