Guide to Wedding Dress Silhouettes - When You're Slim or Trim - Know What to Wear...

Your mind might be telling you that you'll look great in such and such dress simply because you like it when in truth, there are specific wedding dress silhouettes for specific body types. The guide below, as basic as it is, can give you a pretty good idea as to what to lean towards when selecting the right body dress silhouette for your body type.

Silhouettes are named a bit more ambiguously than are the necklines, usually names passed on from history. Again, you want to accentuate your strengths, not come out of you very special day of all days looking like a flesh-torpedo or Quasimodo Bell! Silhouettes, as opposed to Necklines, are a bit more forgiving. You can generally get away with any selection matching almost any other neckline and live to see your wedding pictures. Remember that you will be in this dress for most of the day - you'll have to sit in it, stand in it, go to the bathroom with it on (bring an assistant if you can) and possibly sit down to eat some grub at the reception. Leave some space for spontaneous growth and comfort.

Screenshots below are representative of their graphical selection in our Wedding Dress Creator program available here. Note that these are not hard and fast rules to live by when selecting your silhouette. Think of these suggestions as more of guidelines than anything else.

Selection Summary Chart:

	A-Line The A-Line silhouette works well for most any bride. Comes complete with a fitted bodice and the skirt portion of the dress flares out from the body ever so slightly.
	Ball Gown Probably the most traditional of the selections, the Ball Gown follows the body contours from the chest to the waist, then flares out substantially.
	Dropped Another basic dress silhouette that begins flaring our at about the waistline.
	Empire A basic dress silhouette that flares out from just under the chest line.
	Mermaid The Mermaid silhouette is another fitted dress design that flares out at the extreme bottom end. This fitted-style dress may make it difficult for some brides to sit down or kneel comfortably.
	Sheath Similar to the Mermaid silhouette, the Sheath is another form-fitting style sans the bottom-end flaring found in the Mermaid and A-Line dresses.