Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Talks Shopping for Her Wedding Dress as a ‘Bigger Girl’

Christine Brown is opening up about her wedding dress shopping experience, one year after she and her husband tied the knot.

On Friday, Dec. 13, the Sister Wives star, 52, shared a post to Instagram that gave her followers a behind-the-scenes look at wedding dress shopping. In the caption, she wrote candidly about feeling nervous about trying on dresses and feeling confident in them

"Thank you @destrie_dee at @bodabridal for my amazing wedding dress experience," she began the post, thanking the bridal boutique where she shopped.

"I'm gonna be completely honest here, I’m a bigger girl and the thought of trying on wedding dresses in front of people was very intimidating. Thank goodness, Destrie and her team made it such a positive, empowering and lovely experience," Brown continued. "I felt beautiful and sexy the whole time, even though some of those dresses were so tiny, I just didn’t matter. I felt beautiful. So grateful for the incredible experience!"

In the photos, she also showed off her dress, which featured a plunging neckline with intricate beading detail. On the actual wedding day, she wore her blonde hair down her shoulder with loose curls and a half-up look.

In other photos from the big day, she and her now-husband David Woolley, 59, could be seen smiling at the camera and holding hands.

Brown and Woolley tied the knot in October 2023 in Moab, Utah, in front of 330 guests.

“It's a fairytale,” Brown told PEOPLE exclusively at the time of the ceremony. “It's everything I never thought I would have. I get to walk down the aisle to David, him just looking at me the way that he does, it’s a dream come true.”

Festivities for the couple’s nuptials began on the night of Friday, Oct. 4, when all of their guests started the weekend with a scenic dinner cruise down the Colorado River.

“We just liked the idea of having as much family and friends there as possible,” Brown told PEOPLE ahead of the ceremony. “We're going to have so much fun.”

Woolley also opened up about Brown's wish to have a big white wedding for the first time.

"She wants to be able to wear a white dress and walk down the aisle with her dad," Woolley told PEOPLE ahead of the nuptials. "She never got to do on her first marriage. She wants all the bells and whistles."

Adds Brown: "It’s true. I do want the big white wedding!”

“I'm really very lucky, and very happy that someone let her go, because she's a unicorn,” Woolley added.

Brown has previously been candid about working hard to loose some weight. In March this year, she revealed on her Instagram Stories that her husband often has a much easier time loosing weight than she does.

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"A few months ago for health reasons, David quit drinking soda, quit eating sugar, I put him on a few supplements and he loses 20 pounds, just like that," Brown said in a selfie video shared to her Stories.

"20 pounds! Do you know how hard I work to lose 20 pounds?" she joked.

"The situation where men can lose weight quicker and easier is absolute rubbish," Brown continued playfully in the clip. "That's just really, really super frustrating! I work so hard to lose that 20 pounds!"

The newlyweds first met on a dating website in 2022, and Brown was previously one of four women in polygamous marriage to Kody Brown along with wives Janelle, Meri and Robyn. They split in 2021 after 25 years together. She and Kody are parents to daughters Aspyn, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendlyn, 21, Ysabel, 20, Truely, 13, and son Paedon, 25.