Wedding Dress Selection Guide｜A Comprehensive Analysis of Wedding Dress Styles! Choosing Your Dress Based on Face Shape, Body Type, and Skin Tone

The cotton candy figure, also known as the nymphet version or sweet girl, is mainly distinguished by a 39" bust or more, with broader shoulders and an inconspicuous waist on the upper body.

Cotton Candy Body Suit Wedding Dress

• Suitable necklines: peach neckline, scoop neckline, deep v-neckline
• Suitable Skirts: Puffy skirts are preferred to slim down the proportions.
• Other selection points: usually have broad shoulders and thicker arms, it is recommended to choose a neckline style that can distract attention from the wedding dress.

Pear-shaped girls are those with narrow shoulders, small waists, but large hips. The lower half of the body is usually wider than the upper half of the body, which is known as a pear-shaped girl.

Nishikori Body Shape for Wedding Gowns

• Suitable for neckline: flat, one-shoulder
• Suitable Skirts: Aline, Poncho, and other skirts that cover the hips.
• Other key points: Try to choose styles with embellishments or modifications on the upper body to keep the focus on the upper half of the body. Narrow fishtail dresses are not recommended as they make your hips look fuller.

Tall and skinny girls are also known as willowy girls, mainly those who are above 165cm and have a slim waist and hips.

Tall and thin body shape suitable for wedding dress

• Suitable for neckline: all except peach collar not recommended
• Suitable Skirt Style: Fishtail style is not recommended, poncho is better, but other styles are also suitable.
• Other selection highlights: wedding dresses with sleeves are preferred

Strawberry shaped girls, also known as inverted triangle body shape, have broader shoulders, slender limbs and small buttocks, and are usually wider in the upper half of the body than in the lower half of the body.

Strawberry's body shape is suitable for wedding gowns

• Suitable for necklines: peach neckline, snap neckline, boat neckline
• Suitable dresses: Aline, puffy skirt, vest series are all suitable
• Other selection points: Because the upper half of the body is wider, the proportion of the body is on the V-shape, to avoid the upper half of the body is more complicated styles

Petite refers to girls under 158cm with no distinguishing features.

Strawberry's body shape is suitable for wedding gowns

• Suitable neckline: Just choose according to your face shape.
• Suitable skirts: High-waisted skirts are preferred.
• Other key points: Avoid long-waisted styles.

A square face is a more curved face shape, which is suitable for wedding gowns with shoulders, a-line, heart or long sleeves, which can relieve the stiffness of a square face and lengthen the lines.

Square Face Suitable for Wedding Gowns

• Recommended Necklines: Off-shoulder, One-piece, Heart or Long Sleeve
• Other highlights: Decorative neckline design to shift the visual focus

Round face, as the name suggests, is a rounded face, suitable for wedding dresses with a deep V or peach neckline that extends downward, modifying the shape of the face and lengthening the effect.

Round Face Suitable for Wedding Gowns

• Recommended Neckline: Deep V or Peach Neckline
• Other key points: show your collarbone and career line to lengthen your visual proportion.

Brides with fairer skin are suitable for most colors. Conservative brides can choose light-colored wedding gowns, pink, orange, and yellow are all styles that can complement their skin tone, and if they want to appear white, they can choose darker colors.

White Skin Color for Wedding Gowns

• Recommended Color: Pink
• Avoid colors: None

For skin brightening, darker or more saturated dresses such as: black, red, sapphire blue, green, gray.

Dark Skin Color for Wedding Gowns

• Recommended Color: Sapphire Blue
• Color to avoid: White

Different materials of wedding dresses and gowns will present different temperaments and styles on the screen. Materials can be broadly categorized into lace, diamond yarn, star yarn, sequin fabric, rhinestones, floral fabric (print/embroidery), pearls and satin.

The length and design of the skirt will affect the visual effect of the body shape. Currently, they are categorized as Puffy Skirt, Hip Aline, Fish Tail, Flat Floor, Trailing Skirt, Short Front and Back Length and Cake Skirt.

Depending on the shape of the neckline, it can be categorized into peach neckline, boat neckline, deep V-neckline, high neckline, scoop neckline, one-shoulder neckline and flat neckline.

Generally speaking, wedding gowns are divided into two types, the standard version (within 39 inches of bust) and the sweet version (39-46 inches of bust), and those with a bust of more than 46 inches are oversized, which are only offered by a small number of bridal stores. Therefore, brides-to-be can first understand the styles and sizes of wedding gowns offered by bridal stores according to their own body shapes. Especially, there are not many bridal stores that offer large sizes in the sweet version, so special attention should be paid to the full-figured brides or those who are pregnant themselves.

Some bridal stores do not have a limit on the number of pieces to try on, and you can try on unlimited wedding gowns during the reserved time slot; others have a limit on the number of pieces, and you need to view the portfolio beforehand in order to try on your favorite wedding gowns in a fast and accurate manner.

Whether you need to bring your own nubra or the store will provide it; whether other wedding accessories will be provided after ordering.

In addition to the different wedding dress styles mentioned above, Chinese wedding dresses are also quite popular in Taiwan. Compared to Western wedding dresses, there is no restriction on body shape, especially for brides with straight body shape, Chinese dresses are more able to show the proportion of body shape.