Weddingbee Blog

When we last left off on my online shopping adventure…

• I’d ordered a dress from The Limited that looked horrendously awful, and back it went.
• And I’d ordered a dress from J. Crew that looked surprisingly great (and which received overwhelmingly rave reviews from the hive), which is presently in my closet.
• And I’d placed an order for a BHLDN dress that looked exactly like an over-budget Melissa Sweet I’d been coveting for months.

Now for the next installment of the story, called “Sloth Causes a Scene at her Job.”

My mother came to have lunch with me at my office yesterday. While we were eating, one of my co-workers came to me to tell me that a box from BHLDN had arrived! When we got back to my desk, everyone was dying to see my dress, and since my mother was there, I figured we’d have some girl time while I tried it on.

My coworkers were as excited as I was, and one of them documented the experience.

First, I opened the box as Mom looked on.

And then we inspected the details.

And after I ran to the bathroom to try it on, Mom helped zip me up.

I was wearing my jeans and boots under the dress, so there was no full-length photo taken. So I took some myself after I got home.

And here it is with the bolero I ordered from Etsy:

It’s a bit long and would need to be shortened a few inches to just below my knee. But besides that, it fits really well, it’s comfortable, and, well, it’s a very reasonable facsimile to the dress I’ve been in love with forever.

But there’s that J. Crew that looked surprisingly awesome…

What to do, what to do?

There is a big part of me that wants to keep both, wear the J. Crew for the ceremony and wear the BHLDN for the reception. But even though we’re no longer having budget woes, and even though both dresses combined still cost less than my original dress budget, I still don’t know if I can justify wearing two dresses to the wedding. It just seems so unnecessary.

I’ve got my mind about 80% made up, but I wanted to ask you, hive: what would you do if you were in my situation? J. Crew or BHDLN? BHLDN or J. Crew?