The Dress

This beautiful dress from Zavana Bridal’s Jolie collection (ZB8290).

It has stunning lace and beading, with a sexy figure hugging design and cute off the shoulder sleeves
. It also has a zip up the back which means you don’t have to do up the buttons. I didn’t, and it looked great and made going to the toilet on the day so much easier. The dress is a little heavy to walk in with the train down, but with some practice walking it was fine. It is also much easier to walk around if you bustle it up after your ceremony. From the moment I put this dress on, I knew it was the one ❤️

The dress has been dry cleaned ($350) and has come up really well. Just some minor wear marks around the bottom on the underside of the dress.

https://www.zavanabridal.com/jolie/p/zb8290

Alterations

I am a size 12 in the hips but only size 10-11 on the top (B cup). The hips fitted perfectly but the top was a little big, so I had a few minor alterations to the dress, including reducing the bust and waist a little, putting some padding in the breast cups and adding a button to bustle the dress up. The length of the dress was also shortened to fit me (168cm tall) with heels (8-9 cm heels).