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Ms. Potato Chips, Boston/Narragansett RI Age and Occupation: 29, PhD Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Personal Trainer/Business Owner/Physical Therapy Assistant Engagement Date: January 1, 2009 Wedding Date: June 2010 Venue: The Narragansett Towers About Me: A semi-professional bookworm, if I could be a literary character I’d be a cross between Jo March and Jane Eyre, only better accessorized and much lazier. My hobbies include sleeping in, seasonal brews, running, Trader Joe’s, and watching Unwrapped and Good Eats with Mr. Potato Chips. I harbor an irrational fear of tulle, crafts, things that are fussy, and overuse of the phrase "Your Special Day". After a year or seven together, down the aisle we go, slouching toward adulthood and planning a Rhodie party with equal parts whimsy, cheer, and pizza.
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Pretty Girls

March 10th, 2010 @ 4:17 pm by Ms Potato Chips

Last week was my Spring Break. Over the weekend I took time off from tequila shots, hopped off my mechanical bull, and went dress shopping with three of my four bridesmaids.

Sistah Chipz and I are notoriously bad shoppers. We get hungry and cranky if we have to go to more than one store. So, we decided to keep it simple and head to the J.Crew. Luckily our local J.Crew has a wedding section!

We started off with some pho (pho sho).

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We didn’t have an appointment at the J.Crew. This is because I called two days prior and the sales associate told me the appointments were booked until the end of April. The heck??

But once we got there, to the lovely, scarf-clad silence and stillness of the ‘Crew, we saw a collection of bridesmaid’s dresses before us, free for the trying-on! If we had an appointment, we could have used the Big Special Day Wedding Dressing Room, but we didn’t so we grabbed armfuls of dresses and headed to the Regular People Dressing Room instead.

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The Regular People Dressing Rooms were dimly lit but spacious.

Despite being appointment-less, the kind sales woman let me hold onto their wedding binder so we could compare colors and styles. We were also free to put our grubby paws all over their stacks of swatches.

Make a J.Crew pose! I instructed.

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After some trying and swapping and posing, we ended up with three beautiful dresses in three beautiful colors.

The colors:

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Tropical Aqua, Clover Green, and Tea Rose.

The dresses:

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From L-R: The styles are Clementine, Serena, and Erica.

A day of shopping without getting hungry or cranky? A miracle! But we capped the day off with some fro-yo anyway.

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Anyone go dress shopping recently? How did it go?

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24 Responses to “Pretty Girls”

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AprilBride10
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AprilBride10 (message)  528 posts, Busy bee

Glad you enjoyed it, their cotton cady dresses are sooo cute :)

 
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Miss Spaghetti
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Miss Spaghetti (message)  282 posts, Helper bee

I just LOVE J.Crew and the endless possibilities of BM dresses! Looks like you had so much fun too!

 
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Miss Trail Mix (message)  6,312 posts, Bee Keeper

Looks like fun, I heart the ‘Crew like none other :)

 
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Miss Snow (message)  916 posts, Busy bee

Love the dresses you all chose (and I’m itching to visit one of these mythical J Crews with bridal sections!)

 
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Miss Sakura (message)  22 posts, Newbee

Whoa, I didn’t even realize that particular JCrew had a wedding section! The dresses look fab!

 
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LatteLove
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LatteLove (message)  5,587 posts, Bee Keeper

looks like a very chill experience! You’re a great bride :-)

 
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jordynrose
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jordynrose (message)  6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

I wish my J.Crew carried bridesmaid dresses. Lucky!

 
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Miss Pug
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Miss Pug (message)  3,753 posts, Honey bee

successful trip! love the pho and frozen yogurt. the dresses are really cute and look great on all of them.

 
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curiousfool

Ms. Potato Chips - I love that restaurant!! So conveniently downstairs from that J. Crew too! FI and I eat there there whenever we go out for Vietnamese. We bring our neice along, and she likes to climb on the fish tank where the connector tunnels are.

Haha!

 
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Miss Cardigan (message)  8,645 posts, Bee Keeper

Gorgeous dresses! And I love the colors you chose!!!

 
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alivoo01
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alivoo01 (message)  2,622 posts, Sugar bee

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!! I didn’t realize J. Crew carried clover green!! That’s my wedding color!! I’ve been dismissing J. Crew dresses because their website didn’t show Clover, and for the Clover green on the website for Erica looked more like Easter green. How dark was the Clover in the sample book????

 
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Miss Hamster (message)  4,045 posts, Honey bee

Really cute dresses! And a shopping trip bookended with food - my kinda trip. ;)

 
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Miss Starfish (message)  1,924 posts, Buzzing bee

I like your girls dresses and the colors, it reminds me of Miss Cream Puff’s bright wedding, which I loved!

Me and Sister Starfish recently picked out the bm’s dresses. J.Crew was in the running, but we ended up with something from Flair.

 
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Miss Hot Wings
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Miss Hot Wings (message)  2,213 posts, Buzzing bee

I just found our BM dresses too. Thank goodness, I was so sick of the process. Great JCrew finds!

 
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Miss Frozen Yogurt (message)  2,685 posts, Sugar bee

Love the dress choices and the pho, and of course the froyo!

 
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krissybee
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krissybee (message)  3,921 posts, Honey bee

cute dresses!! looks like a fun time too!

 
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LittlestBirds
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LittlestBirds (message)  2,605 posts, Sugar bee

I’m also a bad shopper. I get drained and exhausted really quickly in mall and box store atmospheres. Every time best-friend-bridesmaid and I went out shopping for either my dress or her dress for the wedding, we had to go to a happy hour together afterward. That helped a lot. (Though, I will say that wedding dress shopping was a million times more enjoyable than most shopping outings; I did have a fantastic time playing dress-up and imagining possibilities).

 
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Miss Octopus (message)  1,446 posts, Bumble bee

PChipz! Please don’t judge me if I tell you that I instantly recognized the Berryline cups in your photo and almost instinctively wanted to put my shoes on to go get some. Sooooo goooood.

 
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Ms Potato Chips (message)  1,193 posts, Bumble bee

@curiousfool: Mmm, that restaurant is so good! Yummy soup!
@alivoo01: The Clover Green might be a new spring/summer color (they had a bunch of new colors, or I could be confused). The swatch was bright, NOT a hunter green at all. My friend got the dress in the mail today and while I haven’t seen it on her, she said it was bright and a really nice color!
@Miss Hamster: Seriously. How else would one do it?
@carrie.a.s.b: Judge you? Pshaw! I ate fro yo at the new Red Mango the very next day!!

 
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We went to the same j. crew for my friend’s wedding. We did a weeknight, so we had an appointment and could try on in the “fancy” dressing room. Ha!

Last Saturday my bms picked out their dresses, but they came from the same salon my dress is from. (I was shocked, was certain they’d want something from the crew!)

 
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Ms. Potato Chips, Boston/Narragansett RI Age and Occupation: 29, PhD Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Personal Trainer/Business Owner/Physical Therapy Assistant Engagement Date: January 1, 2009 Wedding Date: June 2010 Venue: The Narragansett Towers About Me: A semi-professional bookworm, if I could be a literary character I’d be a cross between Jo March and Jane Eyre, only better accessorized and much lazier. My hobbies include sleeping in, seasonal brews, running, Trader Joe’s, and watching Unwrapped and Good Eats with Mr. Potato Chips. I harbor an irrational fear of tulle, crafts, things that are fussy, and overuse of the phrase "Your Special Day". After a year or seven together, down the aisle we go, slouching toward adulthood and planning a Rhodie party with equal parts whimsy, cheer, and pizza.

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