Weddingbee

This time last year I knew two things. First, that we were moving to Singapore. Second, we were getting married. Our first concern was the when and the where. Once that had been determined, it was time to get down to business and start on the details. Of course, like any giddy, brand new bride-to-be the first detail that came to mind was The Dress. Since we were still in Mongolia with nary a bridal salon in sight, I turned to the ever trusty Internet to do some virtual dress shopping.

My first stop was The Knot. I think every bride knows what an invaluable tool The Knot is and I am no exception. I pored over countless dresses, popping over to designers’ websites if I really liked their work, then hitting google for more eye candy if I really, really liked a specific style. This lead to the discovery of sites such as Preowned Wedding Dresses (.com), Your Dream Dress, and Scarlett’s Closet. These sites carry preowned or sample dresses and they provide one very important piece of information I can’t seem to find anywhere else - they list the original price for each gown. If, after all the research, I still wanted to “try it on”, I’d save it in a special file simply titled “The Bride”. Here are just a few of my favorites:

from Scarlett’s Closet

{Christos gown}

{Romona Keveza}

from Your Dream Dress:

{This is a seriously gorgeous Austen-esque Carolina Herrera dress.
Seriously. Look at the detail.}


from Preowned Wedding Dresses:

{Melissa Sweet}

{Monique Lhuillier}

These dresses, collected from various places around the web,
also made it into The Bride file:

Row 1: Watters Brides, Posh Girl Vintage, MC Signature Bridal
Row 2: Christos, Vera Wang, Romona Kaveza
Row 3: Amy Kuschel, Jim Hjelm, Melissa Sweet’s Hallie
Row 4: Matthew Christopher, Melissa Sweet’s Fern, Posh Girl Vintage

After a few months of image collecting, it became pretty clear what kind of dress was going to be My Dress. She was going to be a strapless modified a-line/mermaid/trumpet gown. She wouldn’t have sparkles or beads, but she would probably have lace, preferably alencon. She would have an empire waist or some sort of waist accent, like a ribbon. Most important of all, she had to go with Mama Belle’s cathedral length veil.

{This is NOT Mama Belle’s veil. It does, however, look very much like it.
Veil with venise lace.}

I finally knew what I was looking for. The question was, how was I going to find it?

• Gonna Make You Love Me
• Keeping My Sanity