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I didn’t want to make a big production of finding bridesmaids’ dresses. I had my maid of honor and Mr. K’s maid of honor look online for the last month or so. We found a couple of great options. David’s Bridal seemed to be the place to go to in order to fit into a certain price range and style selection. I made an appointment for a Wednesday when most everyone was available.

My maid of honor, MOH Indy, lives in NYC, so she wasn’t available. But Mr. K’s maid of honor, his sister, was available, as were her twin daughters who are our flower girls. Also available were all my bridesmaids, except one. Our two junior bridesmaids were also there to try on dresses. Throw in my mother, Mr. K’s mother and sister, and we had a group of 14 females—only 4 of whom weren’t trying on a single dress.

It was so much more fun than you could imagine. I was going around ooh-ing and aah-ing at all the pretty dresses and taking pictures. The flower girls didn’t want to take off their “princess dresses.”

Personal Image: Vera Wang shoes that we still drool over in memory.

Personal Image: BM Shorty trying on a dress I’d love if it didn’t look like it was trying to be a one-shoulder gown.

Personal Image: One of the twin flower girls looking adorable in a princess gown.

Personal Image: BM shorty in yet another that didn’t make the cut. Just too much… everything.

Personal Image: both twin flower girls in more pretty dresses. The one on the left is the one we ended up going with.

Personal Image: JB Cousin trying on a possible jr. bridesmaid dress, right color, but not quite perfect.

Personal Image: FNIL Tiny trying on another jr. bridesmaid dress contender. I was feeling this one since we were leaning toward satin at first.

Personal Image: BM Law trying on a nice dress that I loved more for the cummerbund waist than anything else.

Personal Image: BM Libra looking good in everything she puts on, as usual. I really liked this one, so we had our coordinator round up some more of this in everyone’s size.

Personal Image: BM ATL, with whom we hadn’t been having much luck, looked super cute in this one too.

And then something magical happened.

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Somehow, one dress looked great on every single bridesmaid. And it just so happened that the only two who weren’t there look good in literally everything they wear.

I was so excited. They didn’t have our color swatch match though—major color fail. I thought of the Thank You wreath I’d worked so hard on. But then I realized this dress looked good on every single bridesmaid. I had achieved something that should have been unachievable with that many girls, so I focused on what really mattered in that moment, and I asked for all the options in purple.

Personal Image: All the options in purple.

Our coordinator went to get the swatches and we picked this lovely color that looked like a rich purple but photographed kind of blue. That made me super excited because blue is the color I originally wanted.

I had all the ladies pose for one giant photo as proof that they truly all rocked the dress. I could see it in that great purple-y blue color. I was already editing invitations and color schemes. It would epic! It would legen-wait-for-it…-dary!

Personal photo: even ill-sized and wrong-colored, they all look fabulous!

And then…

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Our happy parade came to a screeching halt. She informed us she was mistaken about the dress being available in that color. The only options were a burgundy color and this other dusty de-saturated purple-y shade.

I was immediately ready to leave the store. She apologized too many times and I told her we were going down the street to Eva’s Bridal. We will still be getting our flower girls’ dresses from there though, since they would coordinate perfectly with my dress.

We went to another store where things only got worse. I thought the dress shopping would be hard because of all the different body types. But nope—it was something else entirely.

This post by no means should reflect poorly on David’s Bridal. The dress had just been changed to unavailable in my color a day or two before our appointment. And anyone who can deal with the dress flurry fury we presented with deserves a big hug or a cookie, or maybe even some sort of award.

How hard was it for you to find dresses that flattered your entire bridal party?