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I must admit that I am currently a two dress bride (perhaps soon to be three, but that’s a different story for a different time). I happened to buy both of the dresses in one weekend, while my mom was in town visiting. I blame mother-daughter wedding shopping over-excitement energy. Long story short, I bought a brand new shiny, beaded, lacy monster of a dress and then decided (in the middle of the night) that it just wasn’t me. I am not a lacy, beady person, even if I think such things look amazing on just about everyone else. And the dress was really, really heavy! The next day, while browsing stores in Hollywood, we stumbled upon this during a 25% off sale. We walked out with dress number two. Unfortunately, I could not return the dress from the day before, so it is still hanging around our house while waiting for a good home.

You know that moment everyone talks about? The one where you slip into a gown and just know in your heart that it is the one you will wear on your wedding day? I never had that moment. Don’t get me wrong, I love the dress that I will be wearing, but it just didn’t happen in that magical way. At first I thought something was wrong with me, then I thought something was wrong with the dress, but ultimately I think that the feeling is different for everyone. I didn’t grow up dreaming about my wedding day, so of course I didn’t have a “dream dress” in mind!

Without further ado, my wedding gown:

photo: Elizabeth Filmore

photo: Elizabeth Filmore

photo: Elizabeth Filmore

It’s a bit hard to tell from the pictures, but the dress is ivory, fitted on top, and covered with strips of a slightly darker ivory lace all along the bottom. It has a very small train, and it is super swishy. From what I can tell online, it is from the Spring 2005 collection, and called “Tattered Tulle”.

Luckily, my dress fits pretty perfectly, but I do need to have the straps altered in some way, as the super thin strings cut into my shoulders when I wear them for more than ten minutes. With less than eight weeks to go, I need to drop the dress off at the alterations shop ASAP!

I had never heard of Elizabeth Fillmore before that day (my bridal gown designer knowledge is slim), but after some Googling I found that her dresses are not only beautiful and unique, but she has a lot of dresses in darker ivory, dusty rose and champagne! I had to stop looking because I was finding too many dresses that were calling out to me. Like these:

photo: Elizabeth Filmore

photo: Elizabeth Filmore

I would love to see this last dress in a real wedding. I adore it!

It’s been hard not to wear my dress now that it is hanging over the closet door (it doesn’t fit in our overstuffed only-storage-in-the-house bedroom closet).

I still wish I hadn’t been so impulsive by buying that first dress. Did you regret any of your wedding purchases?