Wedding Dress Shopping Take 1

So.

I guess you all might want to know about my first wedding dress shopping experience. It was fun. I had a good time.

We ended up only going to two of the stores and one of them was a super quick stop. D had to work at 4 pm, so we needed to get her back to work on time.

At store number 1 I tried on a lot of dresses. And I mean a lot. One annoying thing about that store is that they wouldn’t let you take digital photos for copyright purposes, which I understand, but they had also taken off the designer’s tags off the dresses, so I have no clue what the dresses make and style were so I can’t find them on the internet to show you. Anywho, at that store I saw two dresses that I liked. 1) was the first dress I actually tried on. It was made out of an organza/chiffon material and the top had soft tiers of material overlapping each other. It was strapless and there was a mocha coloured sash at the waist and opened to an a-line skirt. It was pretty simple, but very elegant. Kind of like this
2) was a soft white chiffon dress that had an empire waist embellished with beading. It was technically strapless but had decorative sashes to tie as a halter. They sashes were wide enough that they could be tied as capped sleeves as well.

At the second store there were a few dresses that I liked, but I really can’t remember the details about them, so obviously, they aren’t the dress for me. However, store 2 had dress 2 from store 1 for over $100 less than store one was asking. AND they had the maker and style information. S wrote it down, so perhaps I should ask her for the details to that I can see if I can find it on the internet.

The Dress

I love love love this dress.

Too bad it cost WAY too much money. If any Ugly Betty fans are reading this, the actress that plays hilda wore this dress when she got married.

T - 1 year...

So this is it. 1 year from today is my wedding day. Well, hopefully since we have done nothing to organize it yet ;) Mind you, with one year to go I would be VERY surprised if we have trouble booking anything.

As I said on my other blog, this weekend is the start of wedding dress shopping. Fun stuff. So far, I have seen a few dresses I like in the bridal magazines, but honestly, most of the stuff is just not my style. I don't want to wear a big princess dress with a poufy skirt, I think I am more of the simple elegent dress kind of girl.

My biggest dilema these days is who I am going to ask to be my maid of honour. I have no clue. I have three bridesmaids. My two sisters (S and K) and my best friend since Grade 9 (D). I was already Maid of Honour in S and D's weddings. I am probably closer to S than K, but it would be nice for K to get a chance to be a maid of honour, but then again, she lives far away. Like a 2 hour plane ride far. S is a teacher so she won't be able to take any time off before the wedding which rules out a lot of the stuff the maid of honour does in the days leading up to the wedding. (She would be able to make it in the evening though since her school is pretty close to Dad's). And then ther is D, she's like a sister to me, heck, when she got married in 05 MY dad gave her away.

A slightly easier decision was ring bearers and flower girls. Eddie will obviously be the ring bearer and Madison and Kailey with be the flower girls. Maddy will be 5 (holy crap) by then so hopefully she will be able to sheppherd the other two to the front (Kailey will be 2.5 and Eddie will be just shy of his second B-day).