Wedding Talk: Gown fitting for photoshoot

After a really really long wait (felt like a long wait because I had been looking forward to it!), I finally got to go for my gown fitting at my second bridal, Digio. To their credit, the experience with them had been way above my expectation and I looked forward to every contact with them. 

My coordinator was May. Please look for her if you're planning on going for Digio. She's so friendly, flexible and she tries to accommodate to your wishes and demands. 

So this was a gown fitting for my photoshoot that was on 28th August. I had been looking forward to it because I wanted to see the range of gowns they had! I knew it was not going to disappoint because I felt like a princess already when I tried on their gowns before I had signed any packages with them! And true enough, I was not disappointed and in fact, had such a difficult time trying to eliminate the gowns and ranked them according to my preferences and finally to choose 4 gowns out of everything I've tried for my photoshoot! 

Really tough decision I'd say!

So here were the some of the gowns that I have tried on, there were more, but too many pictures to post hence I just chose some of the gowns that I thought I looked good/ugly in.

This was the first gown I tried that day, and it was love at first sight for the husband!I liked the sweetheart neckline and how it accentuates my slim (*ahem) waist. I also liked it that it was bare-back, that was covered with a see-through mesh and laced lining.
The husband loved the train as he found it special to have a column of lace and sequins in the middle of the train. This first gown was immediately KIVed and put in one of the top three choices, and was finally picked as THE DRESS!

This was the second gown that I tried. I had initially seen a similar design in one of the bridal magazines and they had featured a similar one from digio in the magazine. I had really liked the short-long dress and thus wanted to try it. And I was pretty disappointed. I thought I would looked good in it but it actually looked more like a casual dress to me. Not a wedding gown!

So, noooo to this!

The nth dress that I tried on. I was supposed to find a ball gown for my outdoor shoot. And when I tried this gown, I was super blown away by it, even though the husband said it was "gitu" which means ok-ok/so-so in Malay. But again, I felt like a Disney princess in it and it was in my favourite pink! The pink is not obvious, only a hint of pink which made me love it more, because if it's too pink then it would be too overly fancy, or too kiddish. So the amount of pink in this gown is just right! I can totally imagine any of the Disney Princesses wearing it!

So even though the husband did not really like it, I still chose this as my outdoor gown because that was how much I loved it!

And look at the back!! Backless again! My absolute favourite!

This gown below was also one of my favourite and it had actually made it to the ranks. Love the crystals on the gown! One thing I liked about Digio is that the crystals, the embroidery, the lace and other embellishments for the gown looked expensive and hence the gown wouldn't looked like its from taobao or some "chapalang" websites. 

But, what I didn't like about this gown was that it's neckline was not "m" enough. I still preferred sweetheart neckline because I think it accentuate my collar bone better. 

Eliminated this in the end as the husband preferred the 1st gown that I had tried on. 

This gown was almost perfect. The sweetheart neckline that was "m" enough, it was classy enough, loved the lace of the train. But, it was too plain overall. I liked my gowns to be bling, and this gown was just lacking it. 

So yeah, this was out of the ranking as well. 

Next, came the selection of evening gowns which was an equally tedious feat. The selection of evening gowns was pretty limited as compared to their white ballgowns. 

This gown was one of the few that I tried on first. May told me that this gown was actually made-to-measure for another or their bride. Initially I thought I had looked good in this, but on hindsight, I felt that it made my body proportion looked weird. I was thissssss close to choosing this and thank God the husband forbade me to!

AND THIS! My favourite evening gown of all times!

Look at my curves! Look at my curves! This dress hugged my curves so well and hid my imperfections so well as well! Love this gown!

I totally looked like a "Gang Jie" (Miss Hong Kong)  in this gown la. But nobody agreed with me when I sent them this picture :( 

Sigh people have such high expectations of "Gang Jie" these days....

And yes, I chose this as my indoor evening gown.

And this was the most ridiculous gown I tried on that day! I looked like 2 kinds of person; the first, a Chinese restaurant waitress. Or a slut. 

I had always wanted to try on a cheongsam evening gown, and now I realised, I CANNOT, absolutely cannot carry off this look AT ALL. 

Will never ever think about wearing cheongsams again in the future. 

Yellow gown. I have no idea why the husband want so desperately for me to wear a yellow gown. And being the good wife I am, I complied and I chose this gown as my outdoor evening gown. 

This dress is so meh, but anything and everything for the beloved husband. 

I was contemplating between the above yellow gown and this cyan gown. Thought this would be perfect for a beach outfit. But of course, I ended up choosing the yellow one because of the husband. 

After I think 2 hours of torturous waiting for me to choose my gowns, the husband finally got his turn to choose his outfits! He was allowed to choose 4 outfits as well, and I think he was pretty happy because the selection for men's outfit was pretty wide as well. Different patterns, different colours. 

But guy's outfit being guy's outfit, easy too chose and boring. 

The husband took probably like 15 minutes in total to choose his 4 outfits.

Because z'wedding had a pretty limited range, so the husband was not able to choose fancier designs. And at Digio, since there was a wide range of suits, I encouraged him to choose other designs and colours other than the usual black and white.

And these are the 4 designs that he chose except for the last bright blue one!

So this concludes our gown and suit fitting for our photoshoot with digio. Overall, it had been a really pleasant experience! I was so happy that I was able to go through the racks and racks and different levels of their gown selection. What made it better was that almost all the gowns were so pretty that I had a really hard time choosing my final 4 gowns. 

My coordinator May was so patient for me to slowly decide and choose my gowns. She also helped me by understanding the gowns I was looking for and helped to choose some gowns for me to try. 

Thumbs up, for digio!