The dress looks exact to the pic. For my wedding I ordered my sister's gown first as a test. She's in between 12 and 14, but I ordered an 18, looking at the "fit" reviews and it was much too large. That was a mistake, I'm thinking ordering her actual size would have been fine. I just ordered 2 more true to the girls' size and will review those as well. Hope they are true to the pic like the first one was.