{"id":7459,"date":"2012-12-04T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2025-03-03T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:20:51","slug":"when-should-i-order-my-wedding-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/when-should-i-order-my-wedding-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"When Should I Order My Wedding Dress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some couples have engagement, what\u2019s the next step? One of the first wishes of a bride to be is to find the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/unique-wedding-dresses.html\">unique wedding dress<\/a> on big day. When should I buy the dress?<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, you should begin looking at dresses twelve to eighteen months before your wedding, with a view to ordering your dress about 6-12 in advance. This will give you plenty of time for alterations to be done thoroughly, and for you to find the right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-accessories.html\">wedding dress accessories<\/a>, flowers, and hair style to complement the dress. Brides buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/bridal-gowns.html\">bridal gowns<\/a> off the rack will still need to have some alterations done, but they may be able to get away with ordering a dress six to nine months before the wedding; around three months should be scheduled between the first and final fittings to allow time for alterations.<\/p>\n<p>Brides that are looking for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/wedding-dress\/unique-wedding-dresses.html\">unusual wedding dress<\/a> should order a year in advance as well to give them time to find an alternative if they are disappointed with the gown when it arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some couples have engagement, what\u2019s the next step? One of the first wishes of a bride to be is to find the unique wedding dress on big day. When should I buy the dress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-dresses-guide","category-wedding-dresses-shopping","tag-unique-wedding-dress","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14475,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions\/14475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inweddingdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}