Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I've been a slacker

It has been about 6 months since my last entry. That is sadly representative of my overall productivity. I have actually made more work for myself by changing my overall plan several times. I have changed my colors three times now, doubled my guest list (and then some), redesigned the save-the-dates several times, changed my mind on catering, switched from round to rectangular tables, to mention a few. However, with the energy that comes with a new year (an the wedding slowly creeping up on me), I am now in full planning and crafting mode. Below are a few of my recent successes:

Decide on Wedding Colors- CHECK
One of the obstacles that I kept tripping over was figuring out how my bridesmaids were going to get dresses in a matching color. I am not picky about the style and want everyone to feel comfortable and happy with their dress, so my plan was to pick a color at David's Bridal and have them get any dress in that color. Since all of my bridesmaids live hundreds of miles away from me, I wanted to choose a national, prevalent chain store like David's Bridal that would be convenient for them. I had it all worked out, I picked the colors I wanted for the overall theme and then found a corresponding dress color on the David's Bridal website. However, when I went to DB to double check the color, I discovered that it had already been discontinued. Apparently, they rotate through dress colors rather quickly. I didn't want to choose another dress color that might be discontinued when the bridesmaids start shopping in a few months. So I have simplified my life, and hopefully theirs; they are all going to get black dresses and the overall color scheme will be black, charcoal gray and mustard yellow. Crossing my fingers that we all don't end up looking like bumblebees.

Buy my dress- CHECK
When I went to look at bridesmaid dresses at DB I had no intention of looking at wedding dresses. However, I had already driven half and hour and thought I should at least look around. I had looked at some of their dresses online and there were a few that I really liked. It just so happened that they had my favorite one
in the store, in my size, in ivory (not white) and it was ON SALE. I tried it on and loved it and gave them a deposit to hold the dress and the sale price. My mom and I went down the next weekend to finalize the deal. I figured I couldn't buy a dress without at least showing my mom. I am so happy that my experience was nothing like those terrible shows where a women gets bullied into buying a dress her mom/ sisters/ friends like after an hour of crying in the dressing room.