Weddingbee Blog

I know I’m an impulsive shopper, but I was at Lulu’s bridal salon (where Miss Apple got her dress as well) looking at their sample sale items and saw this dress - I just had to try it on because they were having a trunk show and had such gorgeous gowns. So I did - and I LOVED it.

Have no fear- I still love my Kenneth Pool gown (it comes in sometime this month!).

But I just wanted another gown to wear to my Asian reception (I am having 2 receptions on 2 different dates) and I don’t want people stepping on my gown.

It’s from Watter’s new 2007 line. I ordered it in the white with the glacier blue sash, just like in the picture. Cool tidbit - I was the first person in the US to try it on (other than those who work for their company)! It’s romantic, it’s gorgeous, it was my wedding color! So sue me, I love wedding dresses.

It reminds me of a Carolina Herrera wedding gown and a mix of a Justina McCaffrey gown I was so in love with in the beginning, but without the large price tag. It was only $1250 and I got 10% off at the trunk show and a free pair of pearl earrings, courtesy of the designer.

Watters is a Dallas-based company and their dresses are SO affordable. To add length to the train cost only $80 extra, which other companies would easily charge around $500 to do so (Justina McCaffrey wanted to charge me an extra 500-800 just to add a few inches).

(See the little flower girl dress on the wall? That’s the one I picked out for my little flower girls - it’s a Susanne Lively dress.)

I am going to tie it in the “x” fashion in front and it will fit much better when it comes in in my size. The sample was a 10! The little polka dot says “I was not wearing makeup!” hahaha

This picture is a really bad one of the dress, but it’s beautiful in person. It’s not like the over-exaggerated, perfectly symmetrical pickup styles that I dislike like this.

It’s much softer, more subtle - Justina McCaffrey-esque. The back of the gown was what sold me.

Lulu’s did embarrass me by playing a recording of the wedding march loudly and blowing bubbles at me (their tradition whenever a bride buys a dress), but it was cute.

I’m not sure yet, but I think I will be selling this gown after the wedding. I feel so spoiled and lucky to have 3 wedding gowns, but I think that it may be more appreciated by someone else at an even better price. It is in the exact color as the sample - in the ad campaign and in my picture - white with a glacier blue sash and it is a size 4. It will be available after my wedding on June 30, 2007. Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks!