Miss Pineapple, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Student Affairs Administration
Engagement Date: August 4, 2007
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: April 14, 2008
Venue: The Rivers Club
About Me: Being a transplant from sunny south Florida I am learning to live with all four seasons while playing with our cat collective, line dancing, and doing a ton of DIY projects for our wedding (seriously, like a thousand)!
My Other Dress Is…
May 30th, 2008 @ 9:31 am by Miss Pineapple
When I picked out my gown, it was a one stop shopping experience. I did my research ahead of time, found several possible gowns, tried them on, and bought one. I love my gown, I think it is very “bridal” and it makes me feel pretty.
Every once in awhile though I think of the dresses that weren’t. What would my dress look like if I was built like a hanger (you know the kind of woman who looks good wearing anything)? What if money was no object? What if I wasn’t worried about not feeling like a bride on the big day?
In my fantasies my other dress is:
Short. I love the look of a short dress, I think it is so fun and adorable. But, I didn’t go short for a couple reasons: 1. my wedding is in the fall and I didn’t want to be cold and 2. I was worried I wouldn’t feel like a bride (whether or not I would feel this way is debatable).
{ St. Pucchi 9298 }
Slightly Outrageous. This dress is wonderfully unique and breathtaking. Could I pull it off? Questionable. Could I afford it? Laughable : )
Mermaid. Nothing is quite va va va voom like a mermaid gown. (Seriously, check out Miss Cookie - everyone except you Mr. Cookie.) This one is particularly girly and pretty with the lace and light ruffles.
Red. Bold and passionate with a whole lot of wow. Red gowns are definitely stunning, but if were to walk down the aisle in one my family might not have been able to recover.
Country Bumpkin Chic. I adore this dress. If I were getting married outdoors or a warmer time of year this would be the dress for me. Plus, I could totally rock my cowboy boots in this gown.
What dress would you have chosen if you could have thrown all caution to the wind?
14 Responses to “My Other Dress Is…”
If money were no object, I would get the Saffron colored dress by Marchesa from the Spring ‘08 line.
I love that 1st Alfred Angelo dress too! The FH and i were seriously considering honeymooning in Vegas and having another Elvis ceremony and that would be the dress I’d wear!
Miss Pineapple, I am with you. While I love my dress, there will always be a few dream dresses that I can’t afford or doesn’t look right on me or is too outrageous for Mom and Grandma.
I LOVE the St. Pucchi dress you posted!
Melissa Sweet Lydia is my dream dress. it’s perfect for me in every way and I’d get it if I can afford it! 
Ooh, I would have LOVED to do a colored dress. Red or black or purple (wow, I swear I’m not a goth…anymore, at least, lol). But my fiance’s one request was that my dress be white (or close to it - I think he would have been fine with ivory). I figured if it meant that much to him (and since I was holding out on some of his other deep desires, like I wear a full veil and be escorted down the aisle by my father), I could wear a white dress one day of my life.
That red dress is really smoking hot, though.
Great post. Hmmm… I’m going to have to think about that question!
I actually got my dream dress! It’s pink, it’s unlike any other dress I’ve seen, a mermaid fit, and best of all — a sample. =) It was 60% off!
That gorgeous pronovias gown that ms. cherry pie has. It is first dress I tried on. I couldn’t justify spending that much on a dress though 
Too bad…I still think of it often…
A good friend of mine got married in a red dress, kind of like the one you posted, and it was stunning- it fit her personality (and her coloring) way better than a white dress would have, and it was another little way to personalize the wedding.
Lea-Ann Belter’s Kaitlyn dress (2007 collection) is my “if-only-I-had-$4000-for-my-dress” fantasy gown. I’ve decided not to try it on so I can assume it would look terrible on me and continue shopping for gowns in my real price range!
Almost anything from ModelNovias . .. couldn’t even find any darn SAMPLES in San Francisco. But if I could have flown to Spain for dress shopping, you can bet I’d have one of those with cascades of ruffles!
If budget was no concern, I would have ordered the Priscilla of Boston silk eyelet 3054 from last spring’s line… I even flew to boston (for my sister’s baby shower) but we made a special trip into town just so I could look at this dress. Oh how I pined over this dress.
Hey Pinneapple! Thanks for the shout out about my dress I was looking at a Jenny Lee dress before I found my own. It was beautiful but not $4,000 beautiful!
Great dresses. There was actually a Lazaro dress that I LOVED when I bought mine, but it was just way too far out of my budget. I still dream about it some days. I also wore a Chinese chi-pao for the tea ceremony. And sometimes I think it would have been great to wear that dress all day- it looked amazing. But I am too traditional not to have the white dress, I guess. All in all, my dress was great for me.
