I will be having my sleeve surgery done the 3rd or 4th week of May and am standing up in my sister's wedding on October 12th. I have to order my dress for the wedding today and they told me that I could only alter it about 2 sizes down before it loses its shape. So, my question is, how much weight did you lose in about 4 months and appx. how many dress sizes was it for you? I know everyone loses weight differently, however, I'm trying to make an educated guess on how to order this dress. I've been told to order it a size or two down by some people and then have some more room for alterations if I lose more and then there's my mother in law who said she only lost 1 dress size after losing 80 lbs after her bypass!

Any advice you can give is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Sounds like you're ordering from David's bridal, if so they will take the dress back if you're smaller than 2 sizes or larger than 2 siZes and order you another-- just check your dress about 2 months before the wedding and make the call. I got married Saturday-- my wedding gown was a 22 originally and the new one was a 14 (sleeved in September) I could have worn a 12 by the time the wedding hit though... Everyone is different though...

Two of my bridesmaids had to do this as well and they totally honored it...

Oh and the other thing I was just thinking of...a wedding alteration shop can maybe only go down a couple of sizes because they do BASIC alterations. But a quality seemstress or tailor can alter a larger garment down to a size zero if necessary. They have to basically rebuild it, reshaping all seems, but they can do this. I had it done to a suit that I just loved years ago. I had spent a great deal on it for a job interview that was going to make me a VP (I'm now VP of toilets and laundry...what a waste LOL). I got the job and wore the suit often. It was about a 12, but lost a bunch of weight and took it to a seemstress who rebuilt it for me to a size 4/6 approximately (tailored it to my body exactly). She had to redo the lining etc, but it was like having a new suit and it cost maybe $125 or $150...far less than that silly suit did If the dress is grossly big than you could take it from the bridal shop (they just redo outside seems and don't do any work on the inner tailoring) and take it to a really good place to have it fit correctly to your new body.