Wedding Blog

Okay, it’s actually a major one: my dress!

I decided not to blog about my dress before the wedding because I never know when Mr. Swan is lurking around here.

Since I’ve already shown you some of the other dresses I’ve tried on, I’ll just cut to the chase.

Here it is:

As you can see, it’s a mermaid style dress with a train and a little asymmetrical twist, aka David’s Bridal ML9521. Part of me wished it didn’t have the train, but it did make for a pretty cool bustle. My lovely seamstress, Ann Hamilton, and I ended up calling my bustle a “Super French” bustle since it looked like some pretty French dessert by the time she finished creating it.

Of course, I also didn’t want my dress to have any beading either, but there was some beading on the neckline and on the left hand side at the hip.

I don’t know what it was, but shopping for dresses in my price range often led me to dresses with beading when I was trying desperately to get away from them. Hmm… conspiracy, maybe?

In the end I really didn’t like the wedding dress shopping process for a variety of reasons which I’ll perhaps talk about. I even had doubts about my dress. A train and beading during the day? It seemed like a lot to me, and it was definitely not what I envisioned. I even thought about whether I should have gotten another dress, but I couldn’t justify spending anymore money.

Speaking of money, I am glad that I stayed the course with my dress because, well, it was a very cost conscious choice. We came slightly under budget with our wedding, and I believe (actually, I KNOW) that having a less expensive dress really helped. I’m not gonna front though… I really wished I could have had a beautiful Jim Hjelm or any other designer dress. I have definitely drooled over some of the dresses I’ve seen here on Weddingbee from both bees and readers. In the end though, my dress accomplished what I wanted it to: I felt pretty. I guess that’s all I could have asked for.