After we got engaged I told Tony that I was going to milk the dress shopping experience for all its worth. I was going to go to as many boutiques as I could and try on as many beautiful dresses as my heart desired to find the prettiest one.
After all you only get married once, God-willing, but we won't get into that.
Anyways as I was saying, "milk it for all it's worth." Famous last words.
After only one visit to a store I was done with dress shopping and was ready for it to be over.
We went to David's Bridal where they carried a line of Vera Wang gowns that looked ethereal and absolutely stunning...in the catalogue.
On a wisp of a teen that was probably 5 inches taller than me, and about 20 pounds lighter.
Side note: throughout my life I've been blessed by God with a fairly healthy self-image so it was a bit of a shock and downer that I felt as ugly and dumpy as I did that night.
I can say that I've never felt ugly and dumpy.
Unhappy with caterpillar eyebrows and a strong jaw line in my teens, yes.
Ugly and dumpy, no.
But that night I felt ugly and dumpy.
Add in the fact that Lydia, Selina and I spent more time waiting around than trying on dresses,
and the fact that the dresses weighed a ton,
and the fact that with every dress, my indecision grew worse,
and you'll know why I was ready to never walk into another bridal store to shop for myself again.
Except I had walked out of David's without a dress so I still needed to walk into another store to get a dress.
So two days later I went to Becker's Bridal with my friend Steph where I tried on
beautiful dress,
after beautiful dress,
after beautiful dress...
...until I realized that there was going to be no end of beautiful dresses.
The more I tried on, the even more indecisive I became trying to find the prettiest one.
I could hear my mom's voice in my head saying, "There will always be something better."
There will always be a "prettier" dress depending on my mood no matter which dress I chose because let's be honest there were quite a few that I wanted.
So I decided to end the madness, and chose one that was beautiful that I loved among the many, many, pretty gowns out there.
This one:
Just kidding.
I would never post a picture of the real deal before the big day.
After all you only get married once, God-willing, but we won't get into that.
Anyways as I was saying, "milk it for all it's worth." Famous last words.
After only one visit to a store I was done with dress shopping and was ready for it to be over.
We went to David's Bridal where they carried a line of Vera Wang gowns that looked ethereal and absolutely stunning...in the catalogue.
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| Beautiful, but only on the right body type. Ex. not mine. I was this close to buying the one on the bottom left. |
On a wisp of a teen that was probably 5 inches taller than me, and about 20 pounds lighter.
Side note: throughout my life I've been blessed by God with a fairly healthy self-image so it was a bit of a shock and downer that I felt as ugly and dumpy as I did that night.
I can say that I've never felt ugly and dumpy.
Unhappy with caterpillar eyebrows and a strong jaw line in my teens, yes.
Ugly and dumpy, no.
But that night I felt ugly and dumpy.
Add in the fact that Lydia, Selina and I spent more time waiting around than trying on dresses,
and the fact that the dresses weighed a ton,
and the fact that with every dress, my indecision grew worse,
and you'll know why I was ready to never walk into another bridal store to shop for myself again.
Except I had walked out of David's without a dress so I still needed to walk into another store to get a dress.
So two days later I went to Becker's Bridal with my friend Steph where I tried on
beautiful dress,
after beautiful dress,
after beautiful dress...
...until I realized that there was going to be no end of beautiful dresses.
The more I tried on, the even more indecisive I became trying to find the prettiest one.
I could hear my mom's voice in my head saying, "There will always be something better."
There will always be a "prettier" dress depending on my mood no matter which dress I chose because let's be honest there were quite a few that I wanted.
So I decided to end the madness, and chose one that was beautiful that I loved among the many, many, pretty gowns out there.
This one:
Just kidding.
I would never post a picture of the real deal before the big day.
Ha ha you got me! I was like what the?!?
ReplyDeleteBtw forget the dress I still haven't seen the ring my friend.