Wedding Blog

So, I showed you my wedding dress, but kinda left a little window open in case I changed my mind. Well, the inevitable has happened. With less than five months to go, and I can’t stand my dress anymore. This mostly stems from the fact that I tried to purchase a poofy, Lolita-style crinoline to give my dress more of a fifties, party feel–and it ended in disaster.

Here’s the look I was going for.

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Here’s the dress with no crinoline (please excuse my messy bedhead):

And here it is with the crinoline I bought underneath.

I don’t think these pictures truly show the horror of how this looked on me. I felt like I was wearing one of those Victorian-era dresses with the huge bustles in the back.

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And how about the six inches or so of tulle sticking out from underneath the dress? Ick! I know these issues could be corrected, but I just totally changed my mind. Over the past few months (I bought the dress a year ago), I had been doubting my choice. But I kept telling myself that if I waited until I got the crinoline, everything would come together. Well, it didn’t.

I still love the idea of wearing a vintage tea length party dress on my wedding day, but the sheer panic that I felt when I tried the dress on with the crinoline made me decide to scrap this baby. Shouldn’t a girl feel happy and excited about her dress, not a vague sense of dread?

Well, the good news is I’ve picked out a new dress. It’s eco-friendly and under $500 as well, but it’s not vintage. It should be coming in the mail in mid-July–I’ll try it on for you guys then. Ever since I ordered it, I have been going back to the picture I saved on my computer and drooling over it. I think that’s a good sign that this dress was meant to be, especially since I never felt that way about the old one.

Was there a moment in your wedding planning process when you almost lost it over a decision you had made earlier? What did you do?