Bridal petticoats are worn to give the skirt of your wedding dress a full, formal appearance. Bridal petticoats range greatly in the amount of structure they provide. Some are designed to offer a maximum of fullness, while others are meant to provide only a slight enhancement to the natural flow of the dress.

Bridal Petticoats and Bridal Corsets

Bridal petticoats hang particularly well when worn with bridal corsets. Corsets are waist cinchers that flatten the tummy, and diminish the waist. The fullness of petticoats looks particularly becoming when paired with the tiny waistline a corset provides. Plus, the petticoats sit better when gathered around a structured, corseted waistline.

Many corsets come with attached garter belts, which can be a wonderful look for a bride. You can wear white stockings, ivory stockings, or nude stockings, attached directly to the belt straps on your corset. It's a very romantic, formal look and feel, perfect for the marriage ceremony.

If you plan to wear a corset and stockings for your wedding, make sure to try them out before the wedding day. Try wearing either your bridal corset, or a similar corset and stockings out to dinner one evening. This type of shapeware may take a day or two to get used to, but will feel very comfortable and natural once you have "broken it in."