Mom’s The Word
August 7th, 2008 @ 4:50 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
One thing that was definitely on the to-do list while in New Orleans was finding my mother a dress for the wedding. Finding a dress for Mama ST was imperative because
1. She hasn’t seen my dress or knows what colors we are using
2. I didn’t want her looking too matronly, since she’s younger and has fun with clothes
3. But I didn’t want her having so much fun it would look like a hot mess!
I love my mom, but let’s just say her clothing style is very hit-or-miss. As we don’t live anywhere near each other, it was either do it now or do it never. If Mama ST knew how to turn on a computer, I would’ve loved to just send her some photos of ideas and have her pick her own dress that she liked. That not being possible (she refuses to learn, I tell ya!), it was a whirlwind afternoon of dress shopping with Mama ST.
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Mama Milkshake No. 2
July 1st, 2008 @ 1:37 pm by Mrs. Milkshake
Yay! Mama Milkshake number two (Mr. Milkshake’s mom) bought two hot little numbers for herself. It’s so nice to see our mothers in dresses, so here’s her very own tribute in the few photos I was able to snap of her. This particular store in Vancouver’s Chinatown had tonnes of dresses that were in the $50-99 price range and alterations seemed to be complimentary! They have a good handful of these stores in Vancouver’s Chinatown, and I realized a little while ago that Seattle offers nothing of the sort. My friend rented a Cheong Sam from a local Seattle shop for her wedding because that was the only option.
A Canadian Mother of the Bride
June 13th, 2008 @ 5:54 pm by Mrs. Milkshake
My Mom Rocks
June 9th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm by Miss Coconut
So you know what the others are wearing, but I forgot about my mom! A few weeks ago, I spent some torturous time at the mall looking for my mother’s outfit. She gave me total decision-making authority, and you know how Miss Coconut loves that!
I’m not going to lie, it was brutal. Lots of the dresses were just terrible. Full of sequins and glittery material. My mother doesn’t work at the Golden Nugget! Not to mention finding something at a reasonable price?!?! I mean, seriously! After much searching at Dillard’s no less, I found a blush two piece number that I thought would look great on my mom. The price? $72. Oh yeah.
I know that lots of moms don’t want to look like “moms” and I can respect that. For me though, I love a tailored jacket. I think it looks really classic. My mom’s outfit has a jacket, but it’s not a plain one - the cuffs are really cute and there’s a tiny bit of sparkle.
Doesn’t she look great? I think the color looks perfect with her dark hair! The dress needs to be hemmed a tiny bit, but other than that it ROCKS!
My Mom, the Clotheshorse
May 29th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
The lady rocking the 1980s perm and pearls is my mom. The little gremlin shoving food in its mouth is me (some things never change.)
I love buying dresses. Being as tall as I am, dresses tend to be one of the few clothing items I can buy without any fuss or muss, so when I see one I like and it fits, I go for it.
Another Dress Orgy Brought To You By Yours Truly
May 23rd, 2008 @ 5:20 pm by Mrs. Milkshake
Last weekend, I took my mom out for a day at Nordstrom and whatever else the mall had to offer. I’ll have none of that matronly dress business for my mom! Rewearable cocktail dresses here we come. She’s the only peron I know who perhaps has more energy than me to do this - although you readers best know me as the bee who could hit up three or four bridal shops in one day and try on every single non-ballgown dress in each store (and then do it all over again later that week at new stores).
I was incapacitated the rest of the night and hit the pillow at 8 o’clock with a migraine. She, on the other hand, jumped in and out of dozens of dresses, then came back to my house to cook a roast and whip up dinner, then weeded my huge garden in under half an hour at dusk - this weeding task would have taken me the entire weekend.
Dresses For The Moms!
March 3rd, 2008 @ 12:40 pm by Ms. Dahlia
Over the past couple of months, both my mom and Mr. Dahlia’s mom had looked for dresses, with no luck. During this time, probably every major department store in Cleveland was visited by one or both of them- but the selection of dresses was just awful. They wanted similar things- silk shantung or dupioni cocktail length dresses. My mom was looking for blue, and Mr. Dahlia’s mom was looking for green. Now, this doesn’t seem like it should be a difficult thing to find, but it was proving extremely frustrating.
On a whim, I scoped out the bridesmaid and occasion dresses at Watters, with the thought that maybe they would be able to order dresses that would suit them- and both found dresses they liked.
Cue The Perfect Bride, a salon in Rocky River (a suburb of Cleveland). Tipped off on the Watters website that they carried most of the Watters line, I set out with Mr. Dahlia’s mom to scope it out and help her find a dress. And she did:
Watters style 9973; her dress will be a paler green (cilantro) than the midori green shown.
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Hot Momma!
October 18th, 2007 @ 11:43 am by Mrs. Canary
Fall issues of fashion magazines and runway shows are my favorite, and lately they’ve been really helpful. Like other young, cool, and fashionable mother of the brides, my mom and Mr. C’s mom were really lamenting the lack of nice dresses out there. They both want something that’s elegant but not matronly, yet not too sexy. Except the criteria differs in that my mom is very small and petite and Mr. C’s mom is quite tall (like Mr. C!)
My mom prefers a short tea length dress, which may not work since the bridesmaids are wearing tea length dresses, and the last thing I want is for her to look like a bridesmaid. We shopped around at a few bridal stores but didn’t find anything. Then we browsed through my latest issue of W and found a lot ideas. Though most of them are couture or runway gowns, we could probably have them custom fitted and made in similar styles for a lot less.
Here’s what we found (most images scanned from September 07’s W magazine unless otherwise noted)…
MOB Dress
October 12th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm by Miss Chickadee
Since my sister’s wedding, I’ve gotten a few inquiries about my mom’s dress. I’m planning a whole series of tips/tricks/lessons I’ve learned from my sister’s wedding but for now, I’ll tell you about the adventures of shopping for my mom’s dress.
Picking out a dress was one of the things my mom was most worried about prior to the wedding…and the idea that she’d need to buy TWO dresses in a year made it even worse. Living 3,000 miles from my sister and I certainly didn’t help either. She’d perused the Nordstrom’s website and found a lot of promising options, but was disappointed by the selection at the actual store. So she made plans in July to fly up to Chicago from Dallas to go MOB dress shopping and to look for bridal gowns with me.
Mama Trauma: Crisis Averted
August 28th, 2007 @ 6:57 pm by Mrs. Peppermint
The MOB dress has been found! Hooray!I really appreciated all the wonderful tips (and encouragement) from my previous post, Mama Trauma. When Mama Peppermint and I set out to find her dress, I was definitely nervous. I imagined hours of disappointment and frustration as we searched for something that would fit the bill. In truth, we did have some low-points, but all in all, we found a winner and actually had a great time shopping!
I have to second the tip to avoid bridal salons. The selection was modest and the prices were very high. Granted, we only browsed a small number of bridal salons with MOB dresses, but from that limited experience, we were disappointed.
When we arrived at the mall, our first stop was Nordstrom’s. I have to agree with Miss Corn, the selection was very limited. Online we had found a few things, but none of that was in the store! Fortunately, we managed to remain hopeful and continued on our way…
