The Dress...

I’ve watched shows like “Say Yes to the Dress” and there seems to be an overwhelming theme that you see amongst the girls that find their perfect dress at Kleinfeld’s. They find the dress and they cry, along with everyone who is there with them. They can’t help but be overtaken with emotion when they find the perfect dress that they just have to have.
I’m a pretty emotional person, so I thought maybe I was going to find the dress that brought me to tears… WRONG! I don’t know what it was… maybe there wasn’t anything that I was going to try on and immediately fall in love with… maybe it was because I was too concerned with my budget.

I know that the first two times I went and tried on dresses, I wasn’t letting myself love any of them because I knew I wanted to go shop with my mom before I made a decision.
There were 4 of us that went shopping and J’s mom joined us later. Me, my cousin/bridesmaid, my mom and my Fairy Godmother, who is actually my Godmother, but who’s also so much more  :-D

The first place we went is a little boutique in Ft. Wayne called The Wedding Place. It’s a really cute store and the ladies that work there are so knowledgeable and helpful! I tried on 6 or 7 dresses there and when I came out in the dress, everyone loved it… and I thought it was pretty good.

I’m really glad we went there first, though because it gave me the opportunity to compare the dress to all the other dresses for the day. There were plenty of pretty dresses, but nothing that I liked better, nothing that I thought looked better on me and nothing that I felt more comfortable in.

We were in another dress shop and I was in a dress that I’d tried on before when I figured out that I’d made my decision and that I wanted the other dress. We looked at our watches and The Wedding Place closed in 10 minutes so someone called The Wedding Place and asked while someone else helped me out of the dress and hung it up and another person ran to tell our salesperson thank you and that we wouldn’t need to see any other dresses. It was insanity, but we got out of there in about 2 minutes and made it to The Wedding Place in time to order the dress and write down some vest and tie colors for the guys that seemed like they would look good.

For those of you who haven't seen the dress yet, you'll just have to wait... SORRY!  I can't wait to try the dress on again in 6 months when it gets here.  But even more than that, I'm really looking forward to seeing J's face the first time he sees me in the dress.
I’ve never spent that much money on one thing before, not all at one time, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be saying that a lot over the next 15 months. Since I paid for it, I haven’t thought about it again… I haven’t worried about whether or not it was the right thing to do… I have felt comfortable with the decision I made and that means so much more to me than any emotional breakdown about a dress could.