Feelin' like a princess

Wedding dresses are just silly, aren't they? Such expensive, uncomfortable, scratchy pieces of material that you wear one day in your life but that still take a significant chunk out of the ole' bank account. In efforts to avoid that headache, I was lucky enough to have a dear girlfriend of mine offer to lend me her gorgeous wedding dress. It was made in Scotland and is adorned with Swarovski crystal beadwork. It is a lovely dress and I especially loved the "free" part of the deal.

One Monday evening, while my mom was staying with me, I had her help me wriggle into the borrowed dress to see if it needed altered. We hmm'd and haw'd over the straps and how we could make them fit me a little better and Mom remarked on how uncomfortable I looked. Which, I might add, I WAS. Extremely uncomfortable. But, it looked ok, and I just thought the uncomfort-factor just came along with the deal.

Now, both Jerod and I have worked really hard at keeping this wedding simple enough so that we could afford to do it ourselves without burdening either of our parents with the silly expense or headache that a wedding tends to be. I have enjoyed planning it by myself and pinching pennies, but at the same time I've kind of missed out on the part where my mom and I sit down and plan or do something wedding-y together. I didn't really realize that I was missing it. I'm not a girly girl and I'm not one of those girls that has had my wedding planned since I was five. I thought I was just making it easy on everyone, especially my extremely busy parents. Anyway, Mom called me later on in the day on Tuesday and said she had been thinking about it all day and that she really wanted me to have my own dress and that her and my Dad wanted to buy it for me. I hung up the phone and I was so surprised at my reaction of my eyes welling up. I didn't know how good it was going to feel for her to just INSIST that we go wedding dress shopping together. It's not that she hasn't taken an interest or offered to help in any way. It's just that I haven't ASKED or expected it.

So a week later, my mom, my sister and I spent an afternoon at David's Bridal. When the sales lady helped me zip up the first dress I tried on, I wasn't quite sure that it was done up all the way. It was snug and it hung on me alright, but it was WAY too comfortable to be true. I realized that day that you can have a wedding dress on and be able to dance and breath and eat cake. Who knew?? And I don't care who you are or how much of a tomboy you are, once you put on a wedding dress, you ARE a princess. And you will even gasp a little when you see your reflection in the mirror for the first time. Because, dude, you have a WEDDING dress on. And you look beautiful.

Jerod doesn't want to know what the dress looks like, so I have to hide this, but for a sneak peek, click here.

Look at the pretty sleeves!! And those wonderful shoulder freckles!! Ok, so it's not really a great sneak peak. It tells you nothing about what the dress looks like. It's a great tease though, isn't it? Mwaa haa haa haa!!!

Photo credit: Sue H.