13 January 2010
Why You Gotta Be That Way?
Mom and I went wedding dress shopping today. We visited a major player in the wedding dress chain store business, erroneously thinking that since the store serves so many brides, the company would cater to many tastes. Not so. I told my special bridal friend (I believe she's called a "consultant" and I know this because I watch Say Yes to the Dress) what I wanted and she told me that they do not carry ANY wedding dresses with sleeves. None. They have little bolero jackets to put over any of their 5 kabillion strapless gowns, but they have zero dresses with any kind of sleeve. I tried a few dresses on anyway, but standing in a giant, mirrored room with borrowed underwear under a gown I do not want to purchase with a special bridal friend does not please me.
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I know what you mean we had a similar problem with Meg. Luckily in Calgary there was shop that catered to more modesty minded types. Keep looking somewhere there'll be a place.
KWB
And why should you buy a dress from a store like that. Hope there are other choices. There are always lots of wedding dress choices here in Happy Valley.
If only there'd been an upbeat soundtrack and a voiceover talking about how when the whole salon pulls together, MB finds the wedding dress of her *dreams.* Then it would have all worked out.
And what's up with strapless wedding gowns, anyway? Modesty aside, are there really that many people who look good in them??
Also, your wedding invitation is adorable.
Isn't the special bridal friend supposed to be a guy, i.e., the groom?
Corny MarmDad
Stay away from Major Bridal Chain Store--I have stories, too.
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I do not (alas) screen Marmot Dad's comments.
Second:
Give it up. It's not out there. And it's not out here (unless you like cute little cap sleeves and BIIIIG puffy skirt). Sit yourselves down behind your little sewing machine.
Well, it might be out there. I never bothered to look because, as you recall, I wasn't going to have a dress until I saw a pattern I liked that, fortuitously, was designed by a local woman and so was designed for the fabric available in the local shop and everything worked out lovely until certain unnamed ones caused me a near heart attack by whacking at the hem with scissors . . . but I digress. Were we talking about you . . . or me?
KWB--We found a great place that has modest gowns but they recently moved to NC. We're still looking, though.
Kirsten--True. The other big problem is that I'd prefer a knee-length dress and NOBODY seems to carry those.
Amy--I know! There are some people who look good in strapless, but LOTS of people do not. I don't.
Corny MarmDad--I don't know how to groan online.
E--Yes, I believe we've learned our lesson and are now steering clear.
SCS--No, I don't like the cap sleeves. We looked at patterns yesterday and I discovered that I hate those, too. We may have to take three patterns and do some magic. We did find one dress online that I loved and it was reasonably priced because it was a sample, but they only had a size 20. Boo.
If I could sew, I'd offer to make you one. At least I have the sewing maching now.
Short! Excellent plan. Vintage maybe? This all makes me very tired for you. Hope Steve is worth it (I'm suspecting he is).
Good luck MBC! I HATED wedding dress shopping. I remember my "consultant" bringing me poofier and poofier dresses which I tried on to humor her for some reason all the while insisting that I didn't want poofy.
I wish you were here in CA. A friend told me about this lady who ended up making my wedding dress very inexpensively. I was a little concerned when I first met her because her house was like a time warp to 1955 complete with turquoise plastic wrapped furniture. But, she is awesome and did just what I wanted! Wishing you a similar find.
And I'm with Amy - Wedding announcement = adorable!
Oh, my other FAVORITE part about wedding dress shopping:
Consultant: "You're getting married in August? That's ONLY six months from now. You can't possibly get a dress in time!"
Funny. Somehow we all manage to do it.
Knee-length sounds darling. And there's no problem with a size 20 dress--get eating, girl!
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