Weddingbee Blog

I have been DYING to share my dress with you guys. Unfortunately, my computer had other ideas. I have twice uploaded pictures only to have them go missing after I uploaded them. I finally discovered my problem, and got everything ready to share last night.

If you’ll remember, my grandma had decided she wanted to be done with my dress by the end of July. She met this original due date, and I took my dress home. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite right. The top fit a little funky, and I was worried. I fretted over this problem for a little while, and finally showed it to my sister, who agreed it needed some work. I was really nervous about asking my grandma for adjustments because I didn’t want her to have to make changes after she’d already worked so hard on it. I didn’t want to seem ungrateful for all she’d done.

But my sister laid it out for me as the voice of reason I needed—not only would I be unhappy with the dress without the alterations, but my grandma would be disappointed seeing me wear an ill-fitting dress at my wedding.

She pointed out that it’s just as important for my grandma to be proud of what she has created for me as it is for me to love my wedding dress, and both of those things could only happen if grandma made the alterations. And she was right. So I called my grandma up to see if I could take another trip down to Columbus to get some work done on the dress. She agreed and we went down to spend the day with her as she corrected my dress’s problems. The dress fits much better now and I’m absolutely thrilled with it. But the best part of the dress is this:

My grandma has sewn and cross-stitched many things for me over the years, and she has always put some sort of tag on the item she made to indicate she made it. I got the biggest smile on my face when I saw she continued the tradition on my dress!

So here’s what you’ve been waiting for—the dress! THE dress. I’m so excited to share it with you guys. Please excuse the white balance and flash issues—if you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m terrible with my camera. Oh, and I think I’m supposed to put some sort of disclaimer here for Mr. Cannon about seeing my dress, but if he hasn’t figured out that I’m about to share pictures of my dress by this point, I don’t think any disclaimer is going to get through to him.

Yes, these are mirror pictures. And the mirror is dirty. One of Cherry Bomb’s favorite activities is performing in front of the mirror, so there are tons of smudges. Sorry!

Side view! I love how the scallops look at this angle. Here’s a couple of pictures with the shoes. I also cleaned the mirror for these ones—domestic goddess over here!

Don’t worry, I didn’t get TOO crazy with cleaning. My desk was still a mess.

So, they’re not the best pictures ever (I’ll leave those to our photographer!) but, you can at least get an idea of how I’ll look on the big day. I’m really excited about it, and can’t wait to rock this look on my wedding day.

Did you have any worries about your dress’s fit before your wedding? And what do you think of my final product?