Weddingbee Blog

After months of surfing the net and visiting bridal salons, we finally decided on a dress! Before I reveal what we ended up choosing, I thought I’d share the dresses that made it to the top of the list.

The Siri “Natasha”…absolutely love the hidden pockets!

Watters and Watters style #7415

And the Vera Wang lamé cocktail dress

We left thinking that we were going to get the Vera Wang dress… it cost about $250, but we would be able to get a discount and get it for ~$200. It looked super cute on everyone, it came in the right shade of green, and the bridesmaids thought that it’d be worth it to pay a little more for a dress you’d definitely wear again!

That night, however, I was browsing online and checked Ann Taylor (one of my favorite retailers) again, and what did I see…

FINAL EVENT SALE! I couldn’t believe that price… I had definitely checked out all the Ann Taylor dresses before and really liked the “Averie”. However, it was $188 and it was rather simple… I felt like for that price, there might be other nicer dresses out there. But this was a price that we couldn’t beat!!

The next morning, we went to the store to try on the dresses. We loved the Averie in meadow green! Here are my sisters (both who will be MOHs) in the dress…

We quickly called each bridesmaid to make sure their sizes were still available… as soon as we did so, everyone purchased it right away. The one problem we ran into was that the sashes in honeydew were no longer available online and the store only had two. I had the store check all the other stores to see if they still had a few left over. Lucky for us, there was a store in Texas that had just enough left for all our bridesmaids. I paid for them right then and there, and they shipped it directly to me at home. I got them only two days later!

$75.32 for the dress after tax and s&h, and $8.44 for the sash - a pretty awesome deal, I have to say! I love these dresses… they are the perfect green color and will look so light and fresh next Spring!

I believe that the Ann Taylor sale is still going on now, though they are running out of sizes quickly. Your best bet is to call the closest Ann Taylor store to you that carries the Celebrations line, and ask them to check whether any dresses are still left in the clearance section of other stores.