Wedding Blog

I never wore an ugly bridesmaid dress, but I did wear a horrendous flower girl dress when I was younger (which, unfortunately for the bridesmaids, was an exact mini version of their dresses). Think Rachel’s dress from the Friends episode when she’s in Barry and Miny’s wedding, only in bright peachy taffeta/curtainy material with giant burgundy flower/cinnabon type things on the puffy sleeves. It was probably cute for us flower girls, but looking back, I feel bad for the bridesmaids!

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I have been in six weddings (eight after this summer, including my own). One dress wasn’t ugly, but wasn’t well made!

We went through the ceremony and half the reception–and I should add that I wasn’t exactly feeling this wedding to begin with. I barely knew the bride and she planned the wedding to take place on a big game day for our college football team (which made FI happy, for sure), etc.

So, halfway through the reception, I’m sitting with the few people I knew and my friend (and BM for my wedding) said, “Kari, your dress has a rip in it,” and because of the direction she was looking in, I covered my chest and said, “it’s my boob, isn’t it?” But I was very calm…turns out it was in the rib region, on the seam. Anyway, apparently the bride picked crappy fabric for these handmade dresses and I spent 20 minutes in the bathroom getting safety pinned back in.