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I have been holding off posting about this until I had somewhat of a happy ending for you, and this weekend I bought a second dress so here it goes:

Do you remember about a month ago when I posted that my dress was on its way? And do you also remember when I blogged about my horrible dress shopping experience at the store where they wouldn’t let me take pictures? Well, that seems to be a handy tactic if you are a store who SENDS BRIDES THE WRONG WEDDING DRESS!

When the dress that was sent to me finally came I was shocked and disappointed to see that it was not the same dress that I had ordered. I was so shocked that I really didn’t know what to say or do, so I did nothing for about a week. It just laid there on the guest bed in its white garment bag, all lonely and sad like. It isn’t a horrible dress, and after I forced myself to at least try it on I discovered that it did actually fit and it was sort of flattering, but it just isn’t the dress I ordered.

I tried really hard to just accept that this was one of those bumps in the road that no one but me and my Mom would know about but I just couldn’t help feeling sad. As I said before, the dress wasn’t really high up on my priority list but still, I liked the dress I found because it was simple, sort of fun and completely “me”. This new dress, while similar, had way too much beading on it and there are now flowers on the bodice where before there were none. I am not a flowery kind of girl. It also has a fairly long train and, since I am getting married in a park, the fact that the dress I tried on in the store didn’t have a train was one of the things that I really liked about it.

After three weeks of silent torture I finally spoke up to my Mom and said that I wasn’t happy settling for this dress. “Thank God!” she said. “I wasn’t going to say anything because I was trying to be supportive but I don’t like it either!”. This made me feel a little bit better - not so unreasonable. I still didn’t know what to do though. It had already been three weeks since they sent the dress - if I complain now will my argument be as strong as it would have been had I called the moment I discovered that the dress was the wrong one? And, if I am not going to wear this dress - what will I wear?

Well, today I went back to NWL, the lovely store where I actually had a nice dress shopping experience and found that dress that just wasn’t “the one”, and I bought that dress that wasn’t “the one”. YIKES! What am I doing? I totally can not afford to spend another $1500 without knowing that I will get my money back from the first dress! Still, I did it. Nadia Williamson (the owner of the store and such a nice girl) gave me a very good deal so that made it a bit more tolerable but I am still in trouble if the first store won’t take the original dress back. I’ll keep you posted on how that discussion goes…

Anyhow, here are some pictures. Please remember that I am not wearing proper undergarments in either of these dresses .

This is the original, but wrong, dress. It hasn’t been steamed out yet so it wouldn’t look that wrinkly or puckered on the big day and it would still have to be altered somewhat. I also have the option of going strapless in this one.

And this is the new dress. It is actually a size too big so it will have to be altered quite a bit but the lovely Nadia is holding it in for me here. It is quite simple but elegant I think, even if it has a long train. Does the horizontal ribbon break up my body too much? I worry that it will make me look bigger than I actually am.

What do you think? Did I do the right thing by buying a new dress? Which do you think is more flattering? Do I have a hope in hell of getting the money back from the first one considering, since I have no pictures, that I have no proof of how wrong it is?