Weddingbee Blog

So I’ve actually be avoiding telling you all about my wedding dress for a while now. Don’t get me wrong—I’m absolutely in LOVE with my dress (as we speak it’s hanging in my closet and it tortures me that I have to wait 2 months to wear it). But the story leading up to my dress is what I’m not too keen on sharing (it’s a little embarrassing). I sort of wish I could just sweep it under the rug and just show you my current dress. However, I think the whole point of sharing with you bees is to be honest and share all the ups and downs of wedding planning. So, with that in mind, let’s start from the beginning. But first…

Mr. Ticket and I got engaged on November 14, 2010. I waited about a month before making an appointment to go dress shopping, and that appointment was for late January 2011 (I felt this was more than enough time to get a dress, and yet people kept asking me why I was waiting SO long to go dress shopping). The appointment was with David’s Bridal and it was during their big dress sale event (which honestly feels like it lasts all year long to me, but maybe I’m just crazy). I was in no rush to go dress shopping.

That was because I weighed roughly 205 pounds at 5’7″ and I knew I would be wearing a plus size wedding gown. Now don’t get me wrong, I do not think there is ANYTHING wrong with plus size gowns! But I knew they would be more expensive and a few of the dresses I had been eyeing online didn’t come in plus sizes. So while I wanted to go dress shopping, I was a bit nervous. At the time I hated clothes shopping in general and I had for years. I was uncomfortable in my own body and I never enjoyed trying things on that didn’t fit (which was pretty often for me, as plus sizes were generally too big and normal sizes were too small).

With all that in mind I picked out a few dresses I figured I could try on in the store and went in for my appointment with my posse (Mama Ticket, Sister Ticket, Flower Baby, Bridesmaid CJ, Usher H and Aunt Ticket). I tried to go in with an open mind, I agreed to try on dresses as the sales associates brought them to me with suggestions and helpful hints. I tried on… well why don’t I just show you.

This was the very first dress I tried on. I actually thought it was very pretty, but upon wearing the dress for approximately 60 seconds, I found that the shoulder straps were giving me a rash… not cool. Off with this dress!

Second dress -  still pretty but not quite what I was looking for. I wasn’t really digging the chiffon. Off with the dress!

The third dress didn’t have a train which I really liked, and while I was going for simple, it seemed just a touch too plain for my taste, and so… off with the dress!

It is only out of deep love for you bees that I even dare to post this picture for the whole wide internet world to see. I felt wildly uncomfortable in dress number 4, it was simply not the style for me. OFF with the dress!

I loved dress number 5 on the hanger but found it did absolutely nothing for my figure while I wore it. So sadly… off with the dress.

Dress 6 is obviously VERY different from the rest I tried on. In fact this was the dress that I had always dreamed of wearing when I was younger—a big froofy princess dress. So I vowed to at least try it on despite the fact that I was pretty darn sure I wouldn’t end up with it. In the end I’m really glad I at least got it out of my system. Definite no on the froofy dress for me! Off with the dress!

Dress number 7 was a different story entirely. I knew from the hanger that I did not like the dress but tried it on anyways (I hated the beige embroidery). Before I even got to see myself in the dress I heard gasps of oohs and ahhhs from my posse. They LOVED it (Sister Ticket was sprouting tears). When I finally stepped outside and saw myself in the mirror I concluded much the same that I had from the hanger. I did not like it. While I admit the shape was quite flattering for me I really didn’t like the color of the embroidery. I asked if they had any other similar dresses in all white but they did not. Here’s a picture of the dress from the back.

I seriously contemplated getting this dress from the sheer response of my posse. They loved it so much; I was torn. Maybe I just wasn’t a wedding dress kind of girl? What if this was the best I would find? Off with the dress?

By the end of the appointment I felt like I had tried on every dress in the store (I had no idea trying on dresses would be so tiring!) Something deep down insisted I at least try on one more dress, I could always come back to number 6 later. So I decided to try on one I had seen online and really liked, even though it had one major difference from all the rest…

Did you find yourself trying on all sorts of dresses without finding anything you liked? Did you get discouraged?

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been in the mood to watch Alice in Wonderland.

Video via YouTube / Posted by Lucassssssss7BACKUP / From the movie Alice in Wonderland

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