This weekend is an exciting one. I am gearing up, and have been for weeks, to finally go wedding dress shopping. They generally say you should give yourself about 8-10 months when buying your wedding dress. This way you can order the dress and have a few fitting before the big day. I am just about at the 8th month mark and I am ready to go.
I have pushed this event off for a while now, mostly because I am horrifies me to try on dresses, but also because I wanted to really enjoy our engagement and let the ideas and overall theme of the wedding create itself before actually dress shopping. Although like every other bride I still managed to find time to pin hundreds of pictures of dresses on my secret wedding board. Now after doing so I have a pretty solid idea of what I want. Ever since I was a little girl I had this idea that a wedding dress means a lot more than just a white dress. This dress is something so special that you are transformed into a princess. This dress to me means that it also has a few elements; one of which is buttons all the way down the back of the dress, luckily from my short time as a bridal consultant at David’s Bridal I now know that this can be done on any and every dress- huge relief to be because it doesn't have to narrow down my choices at all.
Going along with our Vintage Academy Awards theme, I would really like the old school glam to shine through with my dress. I am thinking something with straps (not sleeves, I’m talking like 1-2 inch thick.) Also, if you are not familiar, I am a tad bit obsessed with the Little Mermaid, so only fitting that I would want a mermaid/ fit and flair style dress. My last stipulation is that this dress has some kind of WOW factor. This could really be anything, maybe it is the beading or the neckline or even just an interesting element. I am hoping that I can find something along these lines, but again from my short time as a bridal consultant I know that what I think I might want could end up looking horrible on me. I am going in with an open mind just as I think all brides should do.
Here is kind of what I am thinking...
Aside from the huge event of shopping I am lucky enough to have my mom and little sister coming to stay for most of the weekend. They are coming for the dress shopping but haven’t been up to visit for a while and a lot has happened in the soon-to-be Gallico house. This afternoon I actually sat down and wrote a list of everything I want to make sure and show my mom. The list is huge! Luckily I have my wonderful Fiance to go grab us some take-out while we barricade ourselves in the second bedroom to review and create crafts.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL… Also this weekend my MOH, also joining us for the dress hunt, and I will be going to brunch on Sunday to sit down an map out next year and all the events that go along with it. I love this idea, since I am such a planner this will help me keep my ducks in a row but this also allows for me to start giving people a heads up. I totally understand that people are busy and the sooner we can let them know when things are happening the better chance we have of them showing up. So Sunday morning I will be off to brunch with my hand-y planner to get planning.
This is definitely shaping up to be a Fantastic Wedding Themed Weekend.
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