324 Days Until Our Wedding: The Dress

(Some of the activities in my blog have already happened.  I started this after I had already completed some things)

I started all this wedding stuff having no idea whatsoever what to do, where to start or what all this would entail. Turns out, there is a lot of things that go into a wedding! (I should have known lol)  Most of them are mind numbing and tedious, such as researching venues, calling caterers, etc.  However, so far there has been one activity that I completely adore- wedding magazines.  I can't get enough of them.  I have, since getting engaged, purchased no less than 20 wedding magazines.  It's ridiculous. And after the first ten or so, I figured out why I like them so much.  I love looking at wedding dresses. I love picking different styles and seeing all the pretty accessories.  So, after looking through dozens of magazines and websites, I took one of my bridesmaids shopping and finally got to try on some of these wonderful, lovely gowns.

This experience was not as wonderful as I hoped it would be, at least not at first.  

Wedding dresses suck.  They are heavy.  Really heavy.  Like 40 pounds or more of lace, organza, and satin piled on my five foot frame.  And they are all made for girls that stand 5'10".  I am not a tall woman.  I am a very short woman.  I am only five foot tall. So all the gowns looked really crappy on me.  I mean, really bad and I have pictures to prove it.  On top of that, I went to the gown shop with a specific designer and style in mind.  I truly loved Allure bridal gowns and I really wanted a gown with a keyhole back.  Guess what?? They looked really stupid on me.  I mean bad.  But that goes back to me not being an amazon woman.  But not only that, no one tells you that wedding gowns run small.  So a woman that normally wears a size 8 such as myself will not fit in a size 8...or a 10...or even a 12 sometimes.  So not only do the gowns look completely silly on me, weigh a thousand pounds but they also succeeded in me feeling terrible about my weight.

Fortunately for me, wedding gown shop people know what they are doing.  The lady that was helping me took all the things I wanted in a gown (such as lace, beading, etc) and found a gown that was actually wonderful and perfect for me.  After trying on five gowns that were just plain terrible looking, I finally tried on the gown the girl picked out for me.

It was, in a word, perfect.  Lacey and long with a sweetheart neckline, It looked amazing. It felt amazing.  I cried.  The saleslady smiled.  Chelsea (my bridesmaid) couldn't stop taking pictures.  A random guy in the store told me I needed to buy it right then.  And best of all, I felt like a bride.  I felt like a princess and lovely and radiant.  And I couldn't stop smiling.  I knew it was the perfect dress.  And in June it'll finally be mine (it takes a while to get a custom order dress, especially when you are short and curvy)

Until next time, I'll be knee deep in bridal magazines and fabric swatches.

325 Days Until Our Wedding

I've been putting this off for a while now.  I am getting married in less than an a year and I've been wanting to keep track of all the wedding activities and things that I have to do, etc.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.

You see, I am not like most girls.  I haven't been secretly planning my wedding for years in my head.  I don't have the perfect dress mapped out in my mind.  I never imagined what my perfect engagement ring looks like.  I haven't had the perfect wedding favors picked out for the last ten years of my life.  In fact, I have never given a rats ass about weddings.  I never even thought that I would get married, that is until Devon and I started dating.  He changed my mind...in a big way.  And after two years together and over five years of friendship, he asked a big question and put this on my finger:

So, since the 22nd of September, I've been engaged.  And on November 3, 2012 I'm going to walk down the aisle wearing a white dress and pledge my life to the most amazing man I have ever known.  But until then, I have to deal with the craziness of being a bride-to-be.  And, that's what this blog is about.  I'm going to use this as a place to write down all the things that I go through on this crazy journey.  So until next time, this wonder woman has to research wedding cakes :)