Weddingbee Blog

Since my sister’s wedding, I’ve gotten a few inquiries about my mom’s dress. I’m planning a whole series of tips/tricks/lessons I’ve learned from my sister’s wedding but for now, I’ll tell you about the adventures of shopping for my mom’s dress.

Picking out a dress was one of the things my mom was most worried about prior to the wedding…and the idea that she’d need to buy TWO dresses in a year made it even worse. Living 3,000 miles from my sister and I certainly didn’t help either. She’d perused the Nordstrom’s website and found a lot of promising options, but was disappointed by the selection at the actual store. So she made plans in July to fly up to Chicago from Dallas to go MOB dress shopping and to look for bridal gowns with me.

In the meantime I made an appointment at House of Brides in Schaumburg. We’d been in the store looking for bridesmaids dresses with my sister and they seemed to have a lot of options so we figured we’d go back. When I called I made sure they knew that the wedding was in October, only a few months later, and they told me that would be no problem whatsoever.

However, when we actually got to HOB that day, we were scolded like naughty school children when we showed up. Apparently everything in the store takes at least 4 months to order, despite what the lady on the phone had said. Disappointed, we headed down the street to David’s Bridal.

We had been to this same David’s a few weeks before shopping for a strapless bra for my sister and it was sort of a nightmare, but this time we actually had great service. The dress we picked out for my mom was only in a dark purple at the David’s in Schaumburg so our salesperson called all over until she located the dress in mocha elsewhere in the suburbs that we could take home with us that day.

The dress was affordable, needed no alterations, and in the end looked sooo beautiful on my mom!

If you’re looking for MOB dresses, my biggest tip is to shop early! A lady at one bridal shop told my FMIL and I that MOB dresses can take nearly as long as a wedding dress to come in, so you can’t start too early.

What are your moms wearing to your weddings? Where’d they find their dresses?