Weddingbee Blog

When I set up my bridesmaids’-dress meeting, I figured we’d all go together and get dresses knocked out. But the weekend I had set aside for it didn’t work for my sisters, so Bombshell, Pistol, my mom, and I all ended up going the week before I planned on going with everyone else. Bombshell requested we check out a dress shop near my parents’ house, so I drove out there to check it out.

The shop was small but not crowded. All the bridesmaids’ dresses were in the back of the store. Bombshell started digging through dresses and trying on various styles. “What’s that?” you say. “Trying on all kinds of styles?” Yes, my friend—although I haven’t discussed it yet, I decided to let each girl pick whatever dress she wanted as long as it was short and the correct color. Each girl has their own color to fit in with the rainbow theme. Bombshell is green, Pistol is orange, Rifle is yellow, Shotgun is purple, and Machine Gun is blue. So, I was mostly there to approve the color and tell everyone they looked fabulous.

Anyway, Bombshell dug through dresses and Pistol, Ma, and I talked. Pistol didn’t do a lot of looking at this store because they didn’t have much to try on in her size. We had already planned to go a couple other places, so we weren’t too worried about it. Bombshell tried on all kinds of things. Some looked good, some not so much. Just for kicks, my mom picked out a dress the shade of green that I liked for her to try on so we could see how the color looked on her. Honestly, none of us was all that impressed with it on the hanger. But when she came out of the dressing room in it, we were all blown away. It looked great! My mom made Pistol go out to the car to get heels for her to try with it. Even better!

And, since the dress she tried on was in her size and the right color and fit perfectly, she bought it and took it home right then and there. She wants to sew in some spaghetti straps, but I already mentioned she’s an awesome seamstress, so we’re not worried about that. So, one down, four to go (five including Cherry Bomb).

This picture does not do it justice. It looks killer in person (and hopefully will when a pro photographer captures it).

With such success, we were hoping Pistol would be just as easy. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. We went to David’s Bridal and had a sort of irritating attendant, so she didn’t try much on. What she tried on looked good, but not amazing.

Meh

We also went to a locally owned bridal shop, but all their samples were way too big and we were not digging anything. We finally went to the mall to see if anything jumped out, but orange is a tough color to find at the mall. (Well, we did find this dress that I got Pistol to try on for a laugh. We got quite a few laughs when she accidentally got locked out of her dressing room and had to wear it for fifteen minutes while we found someone to unlock it!)

So we ended the day with no dress for Pistol, since we were all pretty sick of looking by that point. We still had plenty of time and figured we’d give it another shot another day.

Did you have a tough time dressing any of your girls?

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