They’re saying “No weigh” to losing weight for their big day.  

Sydney Holmes had no interest in slimming down ahead of her November 2022 nuptials. 

In fact, the nonconformist newlywed from Astoria, Queens, crowned herself social media’s “favorite fat bride” during her 17-month wedding planning process, cheekily thumbing her nose at the TikTok-viral #SheddingForTheWedding movement. 

Beneath the trending hashtag, with more than 19.9 million views, brides-to-be of all shapes and sizes are chronicling their pre-wedding weight loss journeys.

They’re detailing their restrictive diet plans, flop-sweating after grueling workouts and nervously stepping on the scale to document how many pounds they dropped in a given week. 

And Holmes, who’s been plus size most of her life, did not want to do any of that. 

So, she didn’t. 

“Trying to lose 50 pounds for my wedding didn’t feel authentic to me — it would have been mentally draining,” Holmes, 31, a beauty content creator, told The Post. 

In her early 20s, she’d begrudgingly committed to diet-culture mores, meticulously counting calories and persistently pumping iron, to reduce for the sake of “getting skinny.”

Struggling to maintain the rigorous routine ultimately sent her into an emotionally “dark place.”  

But once she began to fall in love with her shapely body, she found the love of her life in her now-husband, Jake. 

“I’ve been fat this whole time,” said Holmes, who’s been with Jake, 31, for six years. 

“He fell in love with me in this body. He thought I looked absolutely beautiful on our wedding day,” added the brunette, who dazzled in a size-20, beaded bridal gown by Danny Tabet to tie the knot. “And I did — I looked hot.” 

Holmes is part of the growing army of recent brides who’ve said, “No,” to the pressures of shredding pounds before saying, “I Do.” 

Online, thousands of curvy Gen Zers and millennials under the TikTok hashtag #BrideTok are rejoicing over their decisions to eliminate weight loss from their long, stress-inducing list of pre-wedding priorities such as booking vendors and finalizing the guest count. 

Rather than pushing away a slice of cake at their engagement party, denying themselves sugary cocktails during their bachelorette trip or tacking on an extra two hours at the gym, body-positive champions like Holmes are proudly walking down the aisle “as-is,” boasting bulges and bumps. 

The trend against taking extreme measures to cut fat ahead of the big day seems to be a post-pandemic phenomenon. 

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, brides regularly punished themselves by dropping excess blubber before exchanging vows — some even imposing their fatphobic anxieties onto their bridesmaids. And a 2019 survey conducted by fitness research site TreadmillReviews found that over 62% of women resolved to drop several dress sizes before squeezing into their all-white regalia. 

But Upper West Side bride Renata D’Agrella Kenen, who got hitched to hubby Asher, 27, at a historical villa in Portugal last August, is virally working to change that statistic, encouraging thick girls not to sweat the small stuff — like sporting a big waistline. 

“Every bride should do whatever makes them feel comfortable, but for me, that was not [focusing] on weight loss,” Kenen, 26, a lifestyle influencer, told The Post. 

“There’s a lot of pressure to ‘look your best’ on your wedding day, but I reject the notion that your ‘best’ means being at your thinnest,” she added. “Without that stress, I was able to focus on the real important parts of the wedding day such as special moments with my husband, family and friends.”

On TikTok, she earned a massive 338,000 views for a public service announcement, saying, in part: “You do not need to lose weight for your wedding. Your stomach and every roll and curve is beautiful…You will be the most beautiful bride the way you are.” 

The audio from her clip has been reposted by women worldwide. 

And London-based wife Marvellous Michael Anson, 28, who married husband David, 30, in May 2021, shares Kenen’s sentiments. 

“Every woman considering the ‘wed-shred’ should think about why they are doing it,” Anson, a novelist, told The Post. 

“It’s perfectly fine to lose weight if you want to,” she said. “What you shouldn’t allow is for comments from others to negatively influence you and make you do things that might cause more harm than good.”

Anson, who rocks a size 18 in bridal wear, initially succumbed to pre-wedding slenderizing after getting engaged in January 2020. 

She began incessantly exercising and obsessing over her food intake in the hopes of fitting into a big day finery from a posh boutique — many of which only offer sample sizes between 6 to 10, according to a recent report from wedding hub TheKnot. (Per the site, due to antiquated industry standards, wedding dress sizes are three times a woman’s normal dress size, meaning bridal sizes 6 to 10 translate to sizes 2 to 6 in everyday wear.) 

But after six months of fighting to shrink herself down, Anson gave up the grind. 

Instead, the buxom bombshell tapped David, an illustrator, to design custom couture that exquisitely hugged her curves. 

“I wore those clothes that were made for me and my body, and they fit like a glove,” said Anson, who got hitched in Abuja, Nigeria. 

“I didn’t have to break myself to fit into the fabric,” she added. “I felt amazing on my wedding day.”

Bride-to-be Mashayla Kay expects to feel the same when she and fiancé Angelo take the plunge this August. 

“I don’t want to look like every other bride on social media. I want to look like me,” said Kay, 28, an event planner from Seattle, Washington. 

She’ll be donning a size-16, see-through, backless number decked out in beads and lace appliqués for her holy matrimony. 

“Weddings are very stressful,” said Kay, adding that she’s enjoyed indulging in her favorite foods like cheesecake and fries while planning the fête. 

“I’m not going to stress out over my looks. I’m just going to feel beautiful.”