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I’ve been stalling on this whole “finding the bridesmaids a dress” thing. We know that I sort of fell in like/love with some J.Crew bridesmaids’ dresses, but sadly, those are not meant to be. There was a chance that those dresses would not fit my darling ladies to the best of their abilities, so I scratched the J.Crew dresses off the list.

Rather than continuing to obsess over dresses online, I decided [and by I decided, I mean "thankfully was harassed"] into making an appointment with a local shop to look at dresses in person. With an appointment scheduled, off I went to Bella Bridesmaid to check out dresses with my trusty mother and one of my bridesmaids, Scissormaid J.

In about 2.2 seconds, I was so totally confused. I felt like ultimate fail bride 2k10. At this particular shop, brides with a mission, brides with cojones, brides with a plan, those brides… those brides must be their primary clientele.

“Um, I have an appointment? At 2? To look at bridesmaids dresses?” Real smooth, considering that I was in a store that only sold bridesmaids dresses.

“Great! What are you looking for? What color? Shape?”

I began my terrible, awful, hard-to-decipher run-on sentence spiel, “Well, I don’t want to be a mean bride, and I’m trying to make everyone happy, even though I’ve been dragging my feet about this. See, originally I wanted short black dresses, and then I got afraid that they’d be too harsh with my dress and our flowers and bright colors… oh yes, did I say that we were having sort-of a technicolor wedding? Yes, well, oh, ok, then I thought that maybe we’d do light gray dresses, but then I was afraid that they’d wash them out, or they wouldn’t like them, and then I didn’t know what to do. I started thinking each in a different bright color, but then I thought that might be too much, so, I think I need maybe a neutral-ish color? Or something? Oh yeah, and here’s a picture of my dress.” I shoved a photo of my dress into her general direction, totally horrified with my blabbering, and feeling like a complete moron.

“OK, well we can just look around a little bit. How about that?” So, well, we did. Thankfully she was sweet and very patient, and we ended up with one that looked like it might be a major win in my hunt for a great dress.

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personal photo of the actual dress

The Melissa Sweet dress is just a fabulous color, and looked like it would be flattering for different body shapes. According to the attendant, this dress was designed by Sara Blakely, the creator of Spanx, which makes sense given its awesomeness, figure-wise. The only downside to this dress was the fact that it was $248, which seemed on the high side for a little tank dress, making it not so big of a contender.

In true Scissor-fashion, I almost gave up and crawled back into my hidey-hole, but decided to look around the shop one more time, and that is when I found what might be the most epic of bridesmaids’ dresses.

Who else has acted like a complete spaz in the face of picking out bridesmaids dresses? Were you wishy-washy like I was, or did you know exactly what you wanted?