A Little Something for the Guest Room Closet!

Yesterday was another big expensive day in the wedding planning process.  What did I buy???

MY WEDDING DRESS!!!

Remember the dress I liked from our shopping extravanganza???

I was really struggling with buying the dress.  The dress I fell in love with more than I wanted to spend.  It was at the top end of my original price range... but with Jason getting laid off, I just couldn't justify spending that much on a dress I'd wear for one day.

This dress isn't one I could find used online either... it was a private collection made specifically for/by the dress shop owner.  It wasn't a common designer with a style number I could just google... so I started looking elsewhere for a new dress.  But I just couldn't find anything I liked in my new price range. :o(

Then I got an e-mail (or rather, 12 e-mails because the wedding world believes in selling your e-mail address and sending you multiple e-mails over the same thing).  The email???  Well, it was informing me that the dress shop was having a sample sale.

The good news: I'd be saving 25-75% off the price of the dress!

The bad news: The sample was about a size too small.

After the first e-mail, I got excited!  I called my mom to tell her about it... unfortunately, she would be on the sandy beaches of Florida the weekend of the sale.  Bummer.  Well, I mentioned something about the sale last weekend when we were in Pitt, and Jason's mom decided to come up!

After the twelfth e-mail, I was worried... was this going to be a normal day of shopping, or would there be a two-hour line outside the door, our would it be like the running of the brides craziness you see on TV?  How crushed would I be if someone go the dress before I did?

So, Jason's mom and I got to the dress shop about 45 minutes before they opened.  NO ONE was there! :o)  So after a quick coffee run, we were back at the dress shop waiting for the doors to open.  We were the first ones there, I tried on the dress again, and it *almost* fit (I've lost some weight since this summer)!  They will need to move the panel behind the corset strings over a little (it's got 3 inches and needs to go over an inch-ish).

What was my response?  Debit or Check? :o)

So now, there's a pretty white dress hanging in our guest bedroom closet (don't worry, it's in an opaque bag, and Jason won't care enough to look at it).  HUGE relief to have my dress!