My Dress has Arrived

Yesterday, while sitting in my pajamas, with my blank piece of paper in front of me and pen posed, ready to write out my weekend "to do" list, I got a call from David's Bridal.

"Your dress has arrived. Would you like to reschedule you fitting for sometime sooner?"

"Of course. When is there an open appointment?"

"How about 1:30pm today?"

"Sure!" and because it was 12:45pm I raced to the shower, yanked at my knotted "Sunday Hair", dressed and ran out of the door.

When the tailor opened the impossibly long dress bag and pulled the plastic around the hanger to reveal the dress, my breath caught in my throat. I had forgotten how beautiful the dress is. I just couldn't wait to get it on again. Unfortunately, it is a process, getting into a wedding dress; but 20 minutes later I was beaming, despite myself, and feeling very pretty.

My dress fit perfectly, we did not have to make a single alteration. They measured and pinned up the bustle and I undress and I was on my way.

I am scheduled to pick up the dress in one month. Since I have been busting my butt working out, I am a little afraid that some alterations may have to be made at the last minute, but that is money I am willing to spend.

The Greatest Wedding IPod Ever!

Dan and I received our very first wedding present from our wonderful friends out in San Francisco, Kym and Jared. It is the cutest green IPod and we are going to use it to DJ our own reception. I can't wait to start loading up the wedding music. It is going to be super fun!

Anyway, now we have an IPod so if you want to get us another one, that's fine, but for now we're good. Thanks Kym and Jared.

The Bride and The Big Bridal Business Beast

Today I went back to David’s Bridal to pick up my shoes for the wedding. I had left them there to get dyed to match the dress. (They were white and the dress is ivory.) In the past, I have had very good service there. In fact I was surprised at the level of good service as David’s always seemed to me to be the “Walmart” of bridal stores. Well, today I reminded that one good service incident does not necessarily mean there will be good service in the future. I walked in to get my shoes and was ignored by the lady talking on the phone. So I headed over to the main registers and the girl behind it greeted me timidly, and then cut me off in the middle of my telling her why I was there to help the women who apparently she was supposed to be helping before she started to talk to me. When they were gone, she asked me again, what I needed. I told her I had to pick up my shoes, and she got them for me. I was handed a box, one corner of the shoe box was crushed and broken, the shoes were inside, bouncing around in the broken box, not tissue paper, cardboard, anything to protect them from damage, and the worst part about this was that no one seemed to think this was a problem.
I am glad that I have decided to keep this wedding more and more stripped down. The more I get involved with “Wedding Big Business” the less I want to get married.