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See this boring ol’ box? Looks pretty unassuming sitting there all alone, doesn’t it? The brownness of it is nondescript and the brown (tape) on brown (box) is pretty uninteresting.
One quick sniff and a hearty shake reveal nothing about its contents. It’s too big to be a shoebox, and too oddly shaped to be my beloved KitchenAid mixer. My birthday is months away. My veil is yet to ship…
Wait a minute. Could it be? Is it SHE???
Yup, this big, brown cardboard box is currently home to my dress. I think.
See, I’m not allowed to open the box. I can’t even peek inside to make sure it’s really her. Apparently, opening the box negates the insurance on the dress (my dress has insurance?!?), or at least that’s what the lady on the phone told me. I was clearly instructed to bring the unopened box to my first dress fitting next week.
It’s painful and I won’t lie… a number of scenarios have run through my head all morning. Oops, I spilled coffee all over the box and I just HAD to open it up to make sure that it didn’t seep through and stain the dress!!! Or, I tripped and fell onto the box, which made a big hole in it…and when I got up, I was magically wearing it!!! Or, my co-worker accidentally threw it out our 6th floor office window which caused the box to open and the dress to come tumbling out… and I just happened to be standing there with my arms outstretched as the dress perfectly slipped on over my head!!!
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But because I’m a big chicken, I’m sitting here obeying my given instructions, staring a the box and wishing I had X-ray vision. I’ve waited 6 months… what’s another 7 days, right?
How long did you have to wait to finally see YOUR dress?
what kind of crazy insurance says you can’t open the box? Why didn’t they just ship it to the bridal store?
Man I’d so be tearing into that box right now!!!
You have nerves of STEAL.
Oh the anticipation!!! The torture! Can you at least look at the sender’s address to figure out if it’s the dress?
So it gets shipped to you, but you can’t OPEN IT?
Insurance be damned, it would have been ripped open and twirled all around my apartment two seconds after it arrived. You are far stronger than I.
my dress is currently living at the dress shop it was ordered from…..2 hours away. so mom and i can’t go until next weeked!
I’m sorry but that’s a crock. I deal with international shipping and I’ve NEVER heard of a story as silly sounding as that.
Oh my goodness that IS torture! I don’t know if I would be able to do it. I would probably be like a kid on christmas, trying to tear open a corner to see it.
i’ve never heard of such a thing… oh the silly things they like to do to torture us brides! 
That is outright TORTURE! Can you bring it to the shop and act like you thought you were to just come in when you got it? (I would totally do that lol)
I have to wait until AUGUST for mine! AUGUST!!! >_<
PS: I used to work in a bridal shop, and the REAL reason they sometimes ship the dresses to the bride is because dresses straight up get lost in bridal shops. They blend together and get lost… even in boxes. There are just so many, and bridal shops often try to fit as much merchandise in the store as humanly possible, which usually leaves the storage areas pretty packed, and who wants to chance their dress getting LOST after they waited the extra long months to get it?
let me guess, you got your dress at kleinfeld?
i remember when i got my dress and was staring at a box roughly the same size as yours. i wanted to open it soooo badly too (and it had only been a couple of weeks since i’d seen it, since i bought it off the rack).
i recommend just putting it nicely somewhere temperature-controlled and not too moist and spend the week walking around in your wedding shoes to break them in (so that when you have to stand in them for 1/2 an hour during your first fitting, your feet don’t hate you).
@jhphi: HAHAHA, you’re hilarious.
I’m just going to throw a big sheet over it and stick the whole thing under my bed. And just peek every now and then to make sure it’s still there.
Call the bridal store, tell them you think you received the dress, but you were also expecting a few other packages. Ask them if you can bring it in to open it, or if you can open it over the phone. If they ship it to you, you should be able to open it!
My husband opens things that come for me ALL THE TIME- so if that had been mine, it wouldve been opened the minute it arrived at the house.
OPEN IT!!
I would be dying. I would totally open it and somehow sneakily get the same kind of tape to seal it back up and pretend like it never happened, haha!
so exciting! that’s gotta be nerve wracking. I think I’d give it to a friend for safe keeping!
I’m betting it has more to do with bridal shop policy than shipping policy. As in… they don’t want to deal with brides who might have put the dress on at home, spilled/snagged/ripped something, then got to the store and claimed it was shipped that way. Sad and annoying… but that’s my guess.
My sister got her dress at kleinfeld and it was the same policy. We had to take the box into the store to open it!
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Mrs. Latte, Boston/NYC Age and Occupation: 29, College Admissions Counselor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Elementary School Teacher Engagement Date: August 23, 2008 Wedding Date: July 2009 Venue: Stage 6 at Steiner Studios About Me: I am an East Coast girl marrying a West Coast boy. After 2 years of over 3,000 miles between us, Mr. Latte and I are looking forward to finally living in the same time zone/coast/city/home and living “normal couple” lives. I am a crafter at heart and enjoy dragging my friends into new craft projects. I love my Mac, baking cupcakes, wrapping presents, my BlackBerry, naps, good NY style pizza, Jack Bauer and of course, Mr. Latte. I love him a latte. :)
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