• Bring the entourage, but don’t buy.

It’s fun and useful to bring your mother, friends or sisters on the dress-shopping expedition. It gives you a buffer against an overbearing sales staff, and it’s fun to see if your impressions of perfection are shared by your loved ones, not to mention how they’ll love being part of such an important decision.

But no matter how enthusiastic everyone gets over a certain dress, don’t buy in the heat of the moment. Give yourself time to reconsider and buy with a cool head later, alone. The vast majority of dresses are non-returnable, so when you’ve bought it, you’ve bought it.

• Don’t buy too early unless you must.

Bridal gowns can take four to ten months to come from the manufacturer, but there’s no reason to buy over a year ahead of time, unless your chosen style is going to be discontinued. Give yourself some time to sit on your decision. Once you pick a gown, you’ll see a hundred others nearly like it. You’ll become a walking encyclopedia on that style of gown. All the better if you still have room to choose.

• If you’ve bought “The One,” stop shopping

Any more window-shopping at this point will only lead you down the road toward the dreary land of Two-Dress Brides. What you need to do instead is remember that blissful feeling of having tried on The One. Go get The One out of the closet, put it on and stand in front of the mirror. You’ll remember exactly why it’s The One.

• If you’ve bought “The One” and can’t stop shopping, get a second opinion.

Show your first and second choices to other brides. Be honest — tell them you’ve already remortgaged your condo for the first dress, but you think this second dress might be it. They’ll be truthful, too — the first one was better. You’ll feel reassured.

• Don’t tell yourself “I’ll sell the old dress and choose a new one.”

This old saw of the Two-Dress Bride just won’t work. You’ll never get more than a fraction of what you paid for your first dress if you bought it new.

• Don’t be afraid to aim high — no matter what your budget.

Some brides knew from the start they wanted a designer label, but life just didn’t cooperate by making them heiresses. Yet all is not lost if you’re willing to shop courageously. At any given moment, a better-heeled bride is selling her once-used St. Pucchi or Ulla-Maija on eBay. She paid thousands upon thousands, but you, smart shopper, will pay half that or less.

To take this road, you must shop earlier than other brides so you’ll have a choice of gowns. Always pay with a credit card so you’ll have recourse if the dress doesn’t arrive in acceptable condition, and again, shop early so you can buy another if necessary. Shop courageously, but not recklessly.

• Shop online, but never send a check.

Bridal gown businesses sometimes have a way of disappearing overnight. No matter what the proprietor tells you, never make a purchase as large as a wedding gown without the chargeback protection of a credit card. If they say they can’t take plastic, move on.

• Don’t hold out forever for The One.

Some brides never find The One. What they do find is a few dresses they look beautiful in. If you’re this bride, try starting your planning from the theme instead of the dress. You’ll probably eventually get sick to death of dress shopping. When that happens, “good enough” really will be good enough. Concentrate on other aspects of the wedding that mean a lot to you, like the venue, the food, or the inevitable adoration of your soon-to-be husband.

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Vanessa Hudgens Fashion Style Tips

The ‘High School Musical’ starlet managed to enchant fans and style critics with her unique outfits and refined taste for fashion. Indeed it’s not hard to guess that more and more started to copycat her style. However it is still useful to find out the basic guidelines that lead Vanessa through the selection of her most chic outfits.

The fame comes hand in hand with the spotlight. Indeed the young actress and worshiped teen idol Vanessa Hudgens was granted with the attention of style pros and media due to her sophisticated talent to opt for clothes that bring out the best of her spotless silhouette and other assets. Paving her way to become a real star both in Hollywood and the music business is perfectly completed with her ambitions to reflect a signature style.

Indeed keen to find out whether it is a guided process or comes ‘au naturelle’ we won’t find out, still it is more interesting to take a closer look at the chief principles that characterize her unique dressing style. Besides her fondness for music she also reveals some of the most precious tips she has when organizing her outfits both for the red carpet and in casual. Let’s see some of the most important Vanessa Hudgens style tips.

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