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la.donna.pietra
09/22/09

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I confess I actually broke down and bought this issue four days before my wedding. I had sworn up and down that I wouldn't buy a single stupid bridal magazine, and Christina Hendricks made me break that vow.

Also, I was having an existential crisis about what to do with my hair.
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hamburgerhotdog
09/21/09

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I've never understood why those strapless gowns are so popular, especially on larger busted women. You just spend the whole night yanking it up....
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lurkerbynature
09/22/09

@hamburgerhotdog: Well for wedding gowns at least, this may be the one time you're going to buy a strapless dress well made and well fitting enough that you don't have to do just that.
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hamburgerhotdog
09/22/09

@lurkerbynature: I don't know. Every time I go to a wedding and see a bride wearing one, come the reception she's yanking every few minutes and it's not a good look.
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Clarissima
09/22/09

@hamburgerhotdog: They're don't fit any better on smaller chests either. Whereas the well-endowed ladies spend time and tape on the top arch of the cup, smaller ladies spend time and tape below the cup.
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galaxina
09/22/09

@hamburgerhotdog: Not only that, but I don't think strapless is especially flattering on 95% of the women out there. But then, my wedding gown had a halter style top. I'm biased.
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la.donna.pietra
09/22/09

@galaxina: Halter tops FTW!
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lurkerbynature
09/22/09

@hamburgerhotdog: I'm going by my own experience. The kind of work that goes into making a properly structured bodice that fits just right would just be too expensive for a general occasion. It needs to fit just right. I was shopping for a halter-neck, but ended up with a strapless dress. All day long, I never had to adjust it once. Also, I was maid of honor recently, and the bride never had to adjust her dress, while my bridesmaid's dress kept slipping down so that a quarter inch of my bra was visible on the right side.
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pinkraygun
09/21/09

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Sorry, but my soul let out a small sob when it read Christina Hendricks was on a diet. She's already so gorgeous - I can't imagine how that would be improved by an aggressively sharp clavicle.
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anniehall77
09/21/09

@pinkraygun: All brides, at least every bride I've known, no matter how small, does this before their wedding. I think it's a bride thing not a Hendricks not happy with her awesome shape thing. Something about knowing you will be photographed over a thousand times does that to a person!
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ritualtheory
09/21/09

@anniehall77: Do most marrying women go on a diet? It's a serious question, not a snarky one. I didn't diet before my wedding. And I wasn't skinny-skinny. But I hate diets and am prone to nervous eating.
The photograph theory wouldn't quite hold up with the phenomenal Ms. Hendricks, seeing as she spends her entire professional life in front of a camera, right?
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sweetcheesus
09/21/09

@anniehall77: I didn't. I did start telling people that I was bulking up for my wedding. I didn't want to be all fainty and such...keeping up my strength for the marathon night of first (cough cough) sweet love.
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anniehall77
09/21/09

@ritualtheory: I can only speak from my own experiences...but each wedding I was in, the bride, each one gorgeous with an amazing figure, suddenly freaked out about looking the best they ever had for their wedding day.

Each one cited that they were going to have so many pictures taken of them that day, as well as just wanting to look absolutely beautiful on that magical day, for their various diet/exercise routines. Mind you, that wasn't all; tanning, facials, highlights, teeth whitening etc...

Good point on the Hendricks begin photographed all the time and so she should be use to it. Although, I would say being photographed on your wedding day would hold more special meaning than just posing for a magazine spread, so maybe as a first time bride there could be some nervousness in never having done that before for Hendricks.

Also, I HEART JOAN!!!
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whynotshesaid
09/22/09

@ritualtheory: I didn't go on a diet. The whole wedding-pkanning thing was so stressful as it is that if I had been hungry the whole time, I probably would have gone nuclear and killed everyone around me in the days leading up to it.
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la.donna.pietra
09/22/09

@anniehall77: I bought a dress that fit perfectly in January for a wedding in September. I then realized that I could neither gain nor lose any weight in that 9-month period (the dress had a lot of beading and would have been hell to alter). Oddly enough, it did a lot for my mental body image. I was just right as I was--I didn't need to stress over it.
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lalaland13
09/21/09

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I can't believe she's marrying McKenzie from (500) Days of Summer. OK, I need to stop picturing two fictional characters from two different eras getting hitched, don't I?

Not all dresses have to be strapless, either, as someone else said. I like little cap sleeves or ruffly sleeves or cute little sleeves, period. And I don't want to feel like I'm Amish for preferring that to strapless.
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la.donna.pietra
09/22/09

@lalaland13: I have problems imagining Joan and Pete getting along well enough to hang out at each other's houses. Or Conner and YoSaffBridge, for that matter.
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Lizard in the Wires now with even MORE metal in the face!
09/21/09

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Whoever photoshoped that cover to make her lips that color, because I refuse to believe that shade of lipstick is in production in any line that isn't wet n' wild and even they probably know better than that, should be shot.
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whynotshesaid
09/22/09

@Lizard in the Wires is on Rails: That lipstick makes her look like she's very cold.
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MizJenkins
09/21/09

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I wish I could find a way to express how atrocious the styling is in #6 but words fail me. And knowing that the gown is Oscar de la Renta makes me want to lurk outside the photo director's bedroom at night with a copy of this picture and look in my eyes that screams: YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.
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bananaballs
09/21/09

@MizJenkins: It's so godawful I had to stare at it extra long just to make sure it was real.
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sheistolerable
09/21/09

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I thought January was being kind of underminey, but if you read the article she's being asked about the weddings of the other two female leads, and I believe she's single . . . it would be tough to handle gracefully for most.
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clevernamehere
09/21/09

@sheistolerable: I don't think she is being underminey at all and from just the People article I don't see how she's pushing her bf to propose. I have a few friends getting married next month and if someone asked me what they were doing to look great I'd probably say something like that because lots of women do diet pre-wedding.
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lavenderstain
09/21/09

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I keep looking at her and wishin i looked like her....all those women on the red carpet last night faded compared to her...

shes sooo pretty, and I love her body. my 90 lb frame is dying of envy
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BetteD
09/21/09

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Does anyone else detect a hint of bitchiness and/or TMI in January Jones' disclosure of CH's dieting? It seems to me that comments along the line of "She's so beautiful already, but on their wedding day, everyone wants to look their BEST" skew too far into "But you have such a pretty face!" territory for my liking.

Maybe it's me, but I don't think I'd appreciate a coworker/acquaintance disclosing my dieting habits to the public. Couldn't she have just said, "Christina is beautiful and I'm very excited to see her so happily engaged." ?
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BeckySharper
09/21/09

@BetteD: Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Because skinnier=best? FAIL.
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BetteD
09/21/09

@BeckySharper: I actually just went to the link, and the opener for that quote is even worse: "..she has gone on a diet." Why would that even come up in the conversation? Even if the reporter asked directly if she was on a pre-wedding diet, it's pretty crummy to validate such a question by responding to it in that fashion.
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AnatomyFightSong
09/21/09

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I can't deal with the fact that her lipstick matches the bouquet AND the font color.
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CherriSpryte
09/21/09

@AnatomyFightSong: I know! And you KNOW that was deliberate on their part.
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AnatomyFightSong
09/21/09

@CherriSpryte: The color reminds me of a Wet 'n' Wild lipstick I used to wear in junior high.
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willwriteforfood
09/21/09

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She is stunning. I'm not even looking at the dresses. It's just her.

And she's friends with Pete! Why do I find that adorable?
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tankearae
09/21/09

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Can we talk about her face?

She looks like a porcelain doll... she so pretty its almost unreal.
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labeled
09/21/09

@tankearae: Except in 4. I didn't even know they still made a) Pancake makeup, b) in painful orange.
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Cerridwen
09/21/09

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To heck with this "retro curves" nonsense. I was a much bigger fan of the burlap sack miniskirt and roman sandals look she was rocking when she married Captain Mal. Now that's style!
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/21/09

@Cerridwen: Whatever, yo, I'm going to be a Mrs. Reynolds. Oh yes. It shall be done.
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sybann
09/21/09

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These pics make even old spinster moi wanna buckle on the ball and chain. With her.
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hfree
09/21/09

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NOOOOOOOO Christina! InStyle Weddings is cursed. Quick, hide all the copies.
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