David's Bridal - Taffeta jewel neck ball gown featuring side pockets.

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I can't tell if I'm really digging this dress or not. I imagine it would be great short, but would I just look like a muffin with boobs from the front? OTOH, I totally dig the back, and for $399, with the opportunity to get it on sale through next week, I might find I think I might go try it on. But GEEZ to I hate David's Bridal BARN. Ugh. It's probably more of a polyester monstrosity than a thing of beauty in person, right?

Say Yes to The Dress AKA sometimes I watch wedding porn on TV

re: Say Yes to the Dress, a reality based TV show on TLC about Kleinfeld's bridal salon in DC.

Just a short thought, but why would anyone want to wear a dress that doesn't allow them want to spin and twirl like a little girl in a fairy costume? Some of those dresses appear to weigh more than the waify  brides do!

Also, some of those women must have very rich daddies. Walking into a shop and saying that your dress budget is $5k and then walking out having spent $9k to me says that your entire wedding budget is something like 1/2 a million USD. That's WAY too rich for my blood. If I had that kind of money to spend, I'd hire a planner right now, and then just have more food and a real band instead of a DJ. I don't think we'd change much about what we have in mind right now. OK, and maybe I'd ask my parents if we'd be allowed to pocket the change too. Just saying....

A real woman in my dream dress

This bride is wearing the dress that I lurve. The one that will be fabulously custom made for me, only different.

Twirl factor = crucial

http://www.priscillaofboston.com/dress_detail.jsp?gid=550&sfid=50807&f=

um, I -really- like this dress. It is $1650 (about 1.5 months rent and 1/20 of our total budget) , and will be on sale in November for somewhere between 10 and 20% off. Me likey...... especially once it is ordered in a larger size and tailored to fit. The picture below is of me zipped up to my bra and then held in with a piece of cloth and some big pincer clips because my boobs were way too big for the dress. Why are they all in juniors sizing? Are brides supposed to be flat chested?

The picture is of me twirling "like Fiona" with Hannah, Becca's niece.

I kinda liked the whole ensemble, the short veil, the small tiara/headband thing.... crap, I'm turning girly!

PS- I promise not to be bridezilla. That's why I'm planning NOW, and not right before the wedding.

The pretty pink dress

I want the pink frothy dress Carie wears for her going away dinner in episode 93. I want it in ivory with a lavender or pale blue crinoline and I want to wear it for a wedding dress. Well, I at least want to try it on. Every time this episode is on TV I manage to watch it and mentally drool over that dress. It's so awesome and perfectly swirly! That's what I want, swirly, but not too poofy or fluffy. I don't want to look like a Degas dancer. I'm just not a tulle girl.

PS- I want my hair to look like that too, minus all the dye. I like my natural color, it's actually not too far off from what her colorist was trying to create there, only more gold and less blond in the highlights.

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Dress shopping

I had my second not-too-depressing dress shopping experience yesterday at Anna Bé in Denver. Woohoo! Maybe, just maybe, I won't have to make my own dress. I'm afraid I suck too much at altering patterns to have enough confidence to make my own dress. $80+/yard silk is intimidating! Dream fabric: soft, light ivory, silk brocade with a big pattern.

PS- photo is from here

Out and about in Old Town, Alexandrea

While I’m home in DC I tried to meet up with a few of my girlfriends. Especially Whitney (WAJR), she and I are birthday twins (though I’m a year and a few hours earlier). We went out for a wander in Old Town yesterday (Friday). We looked at sample dresses at Gossypia, ate falafel, looked at cookware, saw Michelle Obama’s dress at Talbots, sadly it didn’t fit either of us and was a little outside both of our budgets.

WAJR and Andrew married this past August in Staunton, Virginia, Andrew’s home town. Here are a few photos from their wedding ceremony, reception, and hanging out in hotel rooms afterward:







pretty flowers (while looking for my purse after the reception)



“after party” with some HS people and their SOs


then going to play Apples to Apples with Maria, and WAJR and Roo’s UVA buddies


Will and Will