Wedding Dress Shopping: Take Three

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On Sunday Kent and I went for a drive to Detroit to go to Target. When we got to the Target plaza, attached to it was none other than a David’s Bridal. I had heard a lot of things about David’s Bridal - that they are huge, really busy, you can take pictures, and that the customer service is horrible.

We decided to go in. I’m torn between two dresses right now, and don’t really want to be torn between anymore, but since I had been wanting to go to a David’s Bridal, it felt like fate and so I had to go in.

When I got in they said they could fit me in right away (it wasn’t busy at all so that rumour was false, all the others were true). The lady at the front desk gave me a David’s Bridal catalogue and told me to pick out three dresses. Since I thought this was just to get the idea of what I like, I took it semi-seriously. I waited for a bit on an armchair:

Then I was brought to my dressing room. The lady had found the three dresses I liked in the catalogue, brought them to my dressing room, and then disappeared. Nowhere to be found, even when I looked around the store. And I didn’t see her again! If that isn’t bad wedding dress customer service, I don’t know what is. SO different from my past three dress shopping experiences. If I had actually been looking, I probably would have been disappointed, but in reality I actually didn’t care.

Dress uno:

I liked this one at the time but looking at pictures, I think it really overwhelms me. Oh, and the lady also put this hideous veil on me.

This one I did not like very much.

This one was too big (one thing I did like about DB is that they have each dress in more than one size) but I LOVED wearing it. It was so light and airy and comfortable.

With Kento (and proof that the wedding is now officially jinxed!):

That’s it! I didn’t love any of the dresses more than the two that I have picked out, and didn’t find any others that I love because the salespeople were of no help. So I will confirm that David’s Bridal is no good. Come to Canada to wedding dress shop instead. There is way more love floating around in our wedding dress stores.

Next up - photographer shopping! We’re meeting with one on Sunday. I’m excited about him because not only is he really good but he’s also pretty cheap AND will come to the reception. Which, along with rights to the pictures, is key for me.

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Nov

22

More fashionable than a fifth grader?

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I’m channeling my inner Cupcakes and Cashmere today with a fashion blog, although my pictures are not nearly as cute and instead of backgrounds of Californian tropics, you get Windsor student house.

I started my teaching placement this week and obviously this calls for new teacher clothes. I refuse to be one of the drab teachers that I remember from my elementary school years. Here is my newest teacher outfit.

Top: H&M
Pants: RW&Co

This is a better look at the top. Check out that mirror, I cleaned it earlier today and that was before I even knew I was going to take this picture. Go me.

I’m channeling my inner Lauren, and my inner Annaleigh from ANTM (who got completely robbed, don’t even get me started!) with these peace sign earrings (from Payless). Love them. And no, when I am teaching, I will not be wearing a red bra under the see through top.

I might do this all week for my teaching outfits, if anyone wants me to. I’m also challenging all of my sisters to blog one outfit from the week, by next Saturday!

PS If anyone wishes to teach me how to edit photos easily so I don’t have to put the unedited version online for all the world to see, that would be appreciated.

Nov

14

Coffee cup conundrums.

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I wouldn’t consider myself much of an earthy or ”green” person. I mean I do recycle, turn off the water when I brush my teeth, walk to school every day, I bought Kent tupperware sized perfectly for all of the food he brings home from the restaurant for us (which he NEVER uses if I’m not home to wash it for him and physically put it in his bag…grrr), only shower every couple of days (okay, this has nothing to do with trying to be green but still), and give my old clothes to thrift stores (though I still can’t see how giving my ugly old out of style clothes that honestly, no one should be wearing, away is doing the world any favours).

But I also drive 2.5 hours home almost every weekend, almost always forget to bring recyclable bags or my own plastic bags to the grocery store (and we do bring them, it’s always my roommate Jen who remembers), buy a lot of clothes that 99.99% of the time are not from thrift stores, always have to have the lights on in the house in the room that I’m in even if I’m just on the computer or watching tv, and live in an un-insulated house when I’m away at school. Which is against every single thing I stand for because I hate being cold. However, it’s getting insulated on Monday which will be amazing.

So, I’m not perfect. But I do try in ways that I can. I could try harder, definitely. When Jen got me a reusable travel coffee mug for my birthday last weekend, I was very happy because I had been meaning to get one for a while. I’m a student. We drink a lot of coffee. I was even happier because it was one of those ones you could personalize and she filled it all up with black and white pictures of my friends and family.

So today after class at about noon, I happily walked to Tim Hortons on campus to get my coffee mug filled up for the first time and get my 10 cent discount for using a reusable cup. The lady behind the counter smiled at me when I gave it to her, and I was sure the smile was about how all earth-friendly I was, and also because she loved my totally adorable cup. She filled it up and - THEN - she took a big long straw out of the wrapper, stirred my coffee, and threw out the straw and the wrapper. I was shocked - isn’t the point of a reusable cup to not create waste? Shouldn’t they have some sort of extra-long spoon for that purpose? I mean I know I am in NO position to judge considering the non-green-friendly lifestyle I have just admitted to, but it’s the principle of it. There are probably a lot of VERY green people that visit the coffee shop, recyclable mug in hand, that would freak out if they saw this being done and I don’t want Timmies employees everywhere to have to go through that. I didn’t say anything, because I didn’t have time to think about how to say it without offending her, I mean she was trying to be nice and make sure my milk and sugar were all mixed in. And she did sort of apologize. Still… I feel the need to address this.

What do you think about my coffee cup conundrum?