The time has come to search for The Dress...the one that will make me laugh and cry in one fell swoop...
I've never gone wedding dress shopping before, so I posted on Weddingbee and asked around and here were the top three things I learned:
1. Wear appropriate underwear. This means a strapless bra, corset, whatever (Nordstroms, here I come!!!).
2. Get a little drunk beforehand. It will make things infinitely more fun. And
3. Enjoy the experience (perhaps with a little help from your bubbly buddy, one Miss Mimosa).
I'm thinking meet at Mom's, have a few appetizers, bond a bit, and hit the road. Woo hoo! This will be a brilliant opportunity to get most of the bridal party together for some getting-to-know-you time. They may find dresses they love too!
The only thing we'll be missing is the presence of my darling Maid of Honor Tracy, who will be traipsing around the East Coast wowing the likes of John's Hopkins and Princeton. Give 'em Hell love!!! Don't worry, you will be kept apprised. Oh, how you shall be kept apprised.
All in all, I'm very excited to go dress shopping but also a little nervous. I don't exactly know what to expect, and I'm a little worried that I'll fall in love with something that is way out of my price range. A very little bit, actually. I have every confidence in my bargain hunting abilities, so the plan right now is to hit up Bridal Salons in Sacramento, and from there Bridal Mart to see if they have the dress...for less!
I'm happy to say, I've already been doing my homework! LOTS of homework. Wedding planning is brilliant for unemployment, let me tell you.
Anyhoo, I've been told that having pictures to bounce off any sales associates that will be assisting me would be a grand idea, so I created a dress book. I took a 70 page notebook and then scoured quite a few bridal magazines for the dresses that caught my eye. I spent the majority of this morning very happily tearing, cutting, gluing, and making notes on my favorites, and then using the store locators to find them. Blessed, blessed store locators!
I've come up with altogether three locations: Bella Donna in Sacramento (which has pretty decent reviews on Yelp.com), Bridal Mart in Rancho Cordova, and finally House of Fashions in Sac, aka The Belly of the Beast. After 26 reviews on Yelp, they have two and a half stars, and one of my dear friends gave me the personal "Don't go there". Still, they carry three brands that I'm looking for, and that I would have to go to two other separate locations to find. It may be worth it. I'm hoping that if I do go, I'll go in saying "I want to see this, this and this" and they'll just bring me what I ask and leave. I'll keep my expectations low on that one...but anyway, yeah.
Dress shopping hurrah!!!
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