Wedding Dress Success!

So I went to do a fitting for my dress this morning. I took Adam with me because my sister and mom were both tied down at work and couldn't make the 10:30 am fitting time. Knowing that Adam would love to come with me, I asked and he was able to be there.

Once we arrived, I got my dress and was in it within just a few moments. Let me pause from my story and say that we LOVE Leslie Carr at Veronica Michael's. Seriously, she is one of the BEST wedding dress and formal dress business women around. While we found my dress somewhere else, we always have had Leslie do the alterations and even order bridesmaid dresses for us. During Steph's wedding, we special ordered dresses that we thought would be perfect. When they arrived we found out quickly that they were NOT perfect. Leslie was SO awesome that we were able to re-order new dresses in another color and she didn't charge us for the first set. Instead she ended up selling/renting them out.

So, I put on my dress and it fit like a glove. Seriously, one alteration is all it took. I was so relieved and so excited I started to just bawl. Adam, upon seeing me in the dress also started to tear up. As he says, he had to do a quick gut check so he didn't out right cry. It was amazing. The dress sat perfectly where it needed to be and was just perfect.

I couldn't believe that after one fitting the dress was all but ready to be taken home. I simply needed to add a bustle and have the dress steamed. My next appointment is for Thursday morning at 10:30 but Leslie said I could have it as soon as tomorrow. Since tomorrow is one of my longer days at work, I opted for Thursday.

It's so crazy to me that I've been stressing about this dress. I've worried for weeks about if it'd fit once it finally got here and then I worried about how many alterations I would have to have done just for it to fit right. Stephanie had around 5 or 6 alterations before her dress was just perfect and to find out that mine took all of one for the right fit was a HUGE relief.

Now I just need to call Jessica and schedule my bridals.

A Wedding Dress for a Wedding

So, my dress finally came from China... THANK GOODNESS! Yeah, I know I don't look really thrilled in either of these pictures, but that's because I was less than happy that we were pinning the shoulders up. In this first picture you can see my birdcage veil in my hands.


I really wasn't ready for this picture to be taken. Thanks Steph! :) haha but it's all good. You can see how much lace and beading is on this dress of mine. I'm pretty thrilled about how it looks now that we're going to let out the sides some. It'll make it sit better on the top of my body and we won't have to take in the shoulders.


Obviously this isn't how I'm going to do my hair. I just sort of had it down for the day because I really didn't want to mess with it much.

In other news, we have ordered our flowers. We have arranged for chair covers (free of charge! Thanks Debbie!) table cloths, sheer over lays, groomsmen's ties, nuts and chair ties.

Five weeks, and thing are definitely coming along.