Wedding Blog

Mr. Spider and I are taking our engagement photos in a month. Since I don’t want him to see me in my dress, I decided to rent a wedding gown for our photo session. It will be mostly outdoors so I definitely didn’t want to be dragging my beautiful gown through the city streets and parks.

Mr. Spider and I went to Highlight Studios with my mom this weekend to check out the options. My mom knows the owner Carol who, upon seeing me for 2 seconds proclaimed that she had the perfect dress. She disappeared into some back room and returned with a simple Maggie Sottero gown. I put it on and it fit like a glove. Even the length was perfect.

Here I am in the gown. I cropped my head so you don’t get the full picture of me in a wedding gown.

And here is a picture Mr. Spider secretly took of me while I was fixing the train. He was sitting there kind of shell shocked so I asked him what was wrong. He said it was the first time he’d ever seen me in a wedding gown. OMG, he was totally right~! It didn’t even occur to me that I shouldn’t have brought him with me. Shucks.

Within the next few minutes, I put a deposit down for the dress. Total cost = $400. That’s NOT cheap. I left half thinking that for $400, I could probably buy a new gown somewhere, maybe a sample sale, maybe EBAY.

I went to work today and all day I couldn’t shake the thought that I’d made a mistake. So I called Highlight and told them I was having second thoughts both about the price and about the style of the dress. If I am going to pay $400, I might as well get a fabulous dress that I otherwise would not have been able to get. Since Highlight carries a lot of Maggie Sottero gowns, I went on the website and fell in love with this one:

The girl I spoke to told me to come back next week since they are expecting new gowns to come in this weekend. I don’t know if I can wait that long. I might pop by tomorrow after work just to try on everything they have in the studio. This is totally like shopping for a gown ALL over again.