Body Confidence on Your Big Day

Body image pressures can overwhelm brides preparing for their wedding day, but your dress size doesn't define your special day. Your partner loves you completely for who you are, not what size you wear.

• Society places unrealistic expectations on brides to look a certain way
• Personal struggles with body image can intensify during wedding planning
• Focus on feeling beautiful and confident rather than achieving a specific size
• Your soon-to-be spouse loves you for who you are completely
• It's okay to want to look your best if approached in a healthy, safe way
• Choose hair and makeup vendors who enhance your natural style, not transform you
• Always schedule trials with hair and makeup artists before the big day
• Make choices based on what you want, not what others expect
• Prioritize comfort and authenticity over meeting others' expectations
• Remember this day is about you and your partner, not others' opinions

This is your most special day and you need to do what's going to make you feel most confident and most beautiful.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro to Wedding Body Positivity
• 0:43 What Really Matters on Your Day
• 1:22 Healthy Approach to Wedding Prep
• 2:13 Choosing Vendors That Enhance You
• 3:10 Staying True to Your Preferences

Transcript

Speaker 0: 0:00

Hey, queens, it's Grace, your host of the Wedding Hive, and for today's episode of the Daily Buzz, we wanted to talk about something that I feel very strongly about is body positivity and when it comes to wedding day. So, as you know, I feel like nowadays there's a lot of pressure from society that have been put on brides to look a certain way on your most special day and, to be completely honest, as a bride who just got married last September and, honestly, someone who has struggled with their body image and weight since I was a little kid, I definitely feel any of you brides out there who maybe are feeling like you have to work a certain way on your wedding day. But this is a big thing for me, truly, at the end of the day, it does not matter what size dress you're wearing. It matters how you feel and that you feel beautiful and confident and truly the most beautiful version of yourself. And also, just to remember, you're about to marry your soon to be husband, who has known you since the beginning. He has loved every part of you and who you are, and they're marrying you because they love you and that's all. That matters, not what size you are. So please remember that, but I do also want to touch a little bit and say also there's nothing wrong if you do want to look a certain way on your wedding day, just remember to please just do it in a healthy, realistic and safe way. For me, when I did get ready for my wedding, I did a different version of 75 hard in the beginning of the year just to get myself toned up. I did purchase a form-fitting dress and personally I just wanted to make sure I felt my most confident. But again, if you're wanting to look a certain way, please just do it in a healthy and safe way. Your husband and all of your family love you for who you are, and looks should definitely come second.

Speaker 0: 2:02

Another tip also, when it comes to wedding day and how you want to look, my biggest piece of advice is choosing the correct vendors when it comes to hair and makeup. I know we see all these photos and we see celebrities on their wedding day and we think that's what we want, or we want to look like them, but you really want to make sure that you kind of find a vendor that is close to your everyday, typical style. You want to, of course, look like yourself, but enhance the beautiful features that you already have. So making sure you find the right vendors when it comes to that. And another thing I want to touch on is, in every aspect of purchasing your day of stuff earrings, shoes, your dress, the biggest one make sure that it is what you are wanting. Make sure it is not because of what mom wants, of what sister wants, of what you saw in a magazine. Mom wants of what sister wants of what you saw in a magazine, because nothing is going to suck more than coming to your wedding day and not feeling like yourself because you chose to maybe listen to other people's opinions and what they thought you would look best. This is your day, it's no one else's. And also, too, I would suggest even if you feel like you've found the perfect vendor for hair and makeup definitely doing trials.

Speaker 0: 3:30

If you guys have listened into our last episode on the wedding hive, we had Natalie on from LaBeige Beauty and she talked about just the huge importance of wedding hair and makeup trials and because you don't want to not do one, the wedding day comes and you don't like how you look and there's really no time to change or fix things, so that's a big thing and just make sure that you are doing everything because it's what you want and not what anyone else wants.

Speaker 0: 3:58

I remember I have very long hair and everyone was very shocked to hear that I wanted to have my hair up for my wedding and not have it down. You know they're like oh why aren't you having it down? You've taken so long to grow it out. I know myself and my hair gets very tangled when it's down and I did not want to worry about that on my wedding day. So I chose to do an updo and I'm very happy that, like I've talked about, I went with what I wanted, not what other people were wanting or thinking would look best for me. So, to conclude, just remember this is your most special day and you need to do what's going to make you feel most confident and most beautiful, and that is your daily buzz.