I'm excited to finally participate in one of Kelly's Show us your life posts.
Ahh. My wedding dress. I loved it and it was well worth it but it does come with a story. ;)
Jon and I wanted a small quaint wedding, but the one thing I wanted to splurge on was the dress. I searched the magazines and websites until I found "the one". I wanted to take advantage of my size 0 figure that i knew wouldn't last long. (I was right by the way!)
So I chose a tight fitting sleek style dress. It was a Demetrios designer dress and I was in love!
First I went to every wedding dress store in the tri state area. I found the dress at one store but it was in an off-white cream color, and I was set on having white! Being able to try the dress on, only made me want it more! So next I started calling dress boutiques all over Tennessee. Then Mississippi, then Kentucky.. and so on. I finally found a boutique in Illinois that said she had the dress IN WHITE, in one size over what I needed. I spoke with a local seamstress and she said it would be no problem to make the dress fit me.
I paid for the dress IN FULL with my debit card and was told the dress would ship "overnight" with the next 2 business days.
Days went by and my dress didn't arrive. I skip all the crazy details, but the woman I was communicating with was constantly unavailable and unable to give me answers when I spoke with her. She FINALLLLLLY admitted that she had ORDERED my dress from the warehouse and was still waiting on it to arrive to her store before she could ship it! Needless to say, I was FURIOUS! My wedding was less than 2 weeks away and I had no dress, and no money for another dress! I did everything I could including threatening to sue the boutique (ha! like I really had the money for that!) ...
The dress finally arrived at the boutique and was suppose to be shipped the next day. 5 days later, still no dress. By this point as you can imagine my stress level was through the roof! Luckily my husband had family in the Illinois area, and they saved my wedding by driving to the boutique, picking up the dress for me and shipping it to me overnight!
All in all it took more than 5 weeks to get my dress, when I was told it would take 3 days max!!
Of course with all the drama I lost my appointment with the seamstress and had to find another one at the last minute. 2 days before my wedding my dress was made to "fit me". By fit me, I mean crappy seams that a 5 year old could have done better, and straps that dug so deep into my shoulders it left bruises! The back of the dress was ruined and no longer looked like it was suppose to with a deep V in the lower back, and the front straps looked horrid.
I sucked it up and my wedding day was fabulous, but looking back I should have just found a dress I liked that was local and fit me, because all the drama was just to much!!
So here it is, the famous dress! :
(Since all of MY pictures are on CD's since my laptop crashed, I am having to make due with the photos Jon has here on his laptop...I'm also to lazy to fight with blogger and arrange the photos, sorry!)
You can see in this next one, the V is in the middle of my back when it should be in my lower back!
New bedroom furniture! :) Oh how I love this KING size bed. 16 inches can do miracles for your marriage folks! heehee! (New Bedding should be arriving anyday now)
