Weddingbee Blog

From my first post about wanting to design my wedding gown using my grandmothers’ and mother’s gowns, you know that foreboding music was playing. If you know me and my I Love Lucy tendencies for getting involved in humdingers, you’ll know that nothing ever goes without a hitch in my planning processes.

The first hitch was that my paternal grandmewether couldn’t find her dress. After her wedding she preserved it and decades later, my Aunt wore it for her wedding. After my Aunt wore it, we sort of lost track of it, and my Aunt thinks it was lent out again, but never returned.

Hmmm… now I was down 1 dress, which also means we were also lacking quite a bit of material on which we had been counting. I couldn’t afford much more material due to the cost of having the dress designed and sewn by hand. My friendor/designer suggested a good workaround for this setback and assured me we could scour thrift stores to find other dresses with useable material.

The second hitch was that my maternal grandmewether had never preserved, or for that matter cleaned, her dress after the wedding. The hem was filthy and there was a rust stain, as well as what could have been a motor oil stain. Hmmmm . . . the only workaround here was to either not use those portions, thereby cutting into our fabric supply again, or have the dress dry cleaned and hope it didn’t fall apart (which was not only risky, but also costly).

I was determined to save my idea ,as I had made this project my number 1 priority for the wedding. Whatever anyone else said, I wanted to see this project through and make everyone cry at our wedding because they were in awe of my sentimentality.

The third hitch, which deserves a post of its own, broke the camel’s back. I think it’s the best part of the whole story. It’s the kicker. It puts the hum in the humdinger. It made me do a Lucille Ball signature face:

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Have you experienced a setback to a project that you were really invested in? Did you keep pressing on, or did you reach your breaking point?