Sooo I finally purchased my wedding dress!! It's very exciting and it makes me feel that much closer to actually being married. I got the dress at David's Bridal. My consultant was Carrie and she was wonderful! I'm also going to be using her for the bridesmaids shopping, she was so helpful. I would love to tell you all the details but I'm afraid Shawn will read this and I don't want him to know what the dress looks like at all until the day of the wedding :) But I can tell you that it is beautiful. Oh and that feeling that they tell you you'll have when you try on "the one" is completely true!
I came in with a few pictures from online that I had liked and a few bridal magazines to show my consultant what kind of styles I liked. I tried
on a good 7 or 8 dresses before I tried on the one that I ended up getting. They were all beautiful but there were things about each of them that I didn't quite like, or they just weren't quite me. I tried on a ton of different kinds. Strapless, off the shoulder, thin straps, thicker straps, v-neck, sweetheart, poofy, lased, beaded, form-fitting, flowy, corsets...you name it. So I got a pretty good idea of what I liked and didn't like.
Then I tried on the dress that I ended up buying. I knew as soon as I tried it on I loved it. I had a combination of all the things I had liked from the previous dresses and more. I felt like a bride when I looked at myself and most importantly I felt beautiful! It was a wonderful feeling and I couldn't help but smile. Once I walked out of the dressing room I knew my mom and sister thought the same thing. As my mom put it " Oh my god...it's so you!".
After that I tried on a few vails which really put the look together. I tried on about 10 of those lol. A cathedral one that went down to the bottom of my dress, and then from there continued to try on shorter and shorter ones from then on. I tried ones with lase sown on, beads on the bottom, sides, or all over, tiara's , clips etc. However before this appointment I hadn't really thought much about the vail. I had been so consumed with what kind of dress I would like that I hadn't even considered a vail to go with it. So I did not purchase one today. I want some more time to look at various different styles before I make a definite choice. I also got a necklace and earring set while I was there. Sooo cute! Very subtle (I didn't want it to take away from the gown) but it matches my dress perfect!
The dress itself actually fits me well. I ended up going up one more size then I normally am beca
use... my chest was a little tight in the first size, and being that I would like to breathe on wedding day I went one size up and their just going to take in the waist a bit for me. The length also fit me well. I used shoes that they had there (my heals are packed away right now for the move) I used the tallest pair they had and the hem of the dress came to right about where it should be. (For those of you who don't know Shawn is 6'6 so I'm trying to make up the height difference a bit lol). She measured the height of the shoes so that when I do go shoe shopping for the wedding I know the size I'm looking for.
It was a wonderful experience and I'm very very happy with my decision. I can't wait to actually get my dress and put it on again, and most of all I can't wait for Shawn to see it. :)
Thanks for reading!
Only 296 days until the wedding!
