Dec
3
Sweet, sweet irony. I think.
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So do you remember the engagement photos that Mr X and I have been breathlessly anticipating? Well, after I blogged about them two weeks ago I found out that the photographer told us the wrong time frame - e-photos actually take 8 weeks to process. The agony!!!
Yesterday was 8 weeks. Nothing new posted on their blog, not a peep in my email inbox. Last night we were discussing our anxiousness - again - when I surmised that perhaps their office/appointment manager (the main photographers wife) was having her baby at that very moment.
I was off by a few hours.
Like rain on your wedding day - like the office manager having her baby on the day she told you the photos might be ready…*
* ok, yes, I know that this isn’t really irony. Just give me my moment to gripe, darn it!
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Nov
25
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.
Nov
18
Anticipation
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Exactly 6 weeks ago Mr X and I spent an afternoon with our wedding photographer, Kelly, getting our ‘official’ engagement photos taken. I call them our official engagement photos as we are paying for them - Katelyn took some great photos of us back in August that we ADORE and only cost our love and affection. We paid well in advance.
Kelly told us that our photos would be done in “4-6 weeks”. It’s been 6 weeks today and our pictures are not ready…but for good reason - a death in the family of the photographer who processes and edits the pictures. So we wait and try to be patient.
But it’s hard. SO hard!
On their blog over the last week or so, there have been e-photos of two couples where the bride-to-be’s name was Erica. And one wedding photoshoot that took place at our venue. The agony!!!
Mr. X carefully checks the picture to analyze the amount of leaves on the ground to try and estimate when they might be getting close to posting our photos. He’s devoted!
Last night I called Micaela (for a completely different reason) and her first question to me was “are your pictures up?”
The MOMENT they are posted, this blog will be updated. Because I will be the most excited person around. And also because Mr X’s name and sexy mug will be revealed for you all and I will no longer need to call him Mr X. Woohoo!
Nov
15
Wedding dress conundrums.
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I’ve moved past coffee cup conundrums and onto a new one, along with the one called there’s a freak snowstorm and I’m stuck at my parent’s house on a Saturday night.
So instead I will blog. Because I need some help.
You might remember that I went shopping a month or so ago and found a dress that I absolutely loved:
Let’s call her Dress#1. The back goes down super low (which I love) and a big random flower (also love).
Well I went back today just to be sure, and I was so sure that I wasn’t going to find anything better that I only invited my mom to come along with me. I tried on a few that were the same style as Dress#1 and I did like them but not as much. Then I saw one on a mannequin that was completely different. I don’t like your average wedding dress because I find that they are all very similar and whenever anyone goes to a wedding and I ask what the bride’s dress looked like they say “I don’t know… poufy… strapless…” At the same time I understand it because you go into a wedding dress store and this is what ALL the dresses look like. It’s hard to find something different. Except for a small section of grecian style dresses that I bolt towards.
Anyways, Dress#2 is more of your average wedding dress and this picture does NOT do it justice but I have to show it to you anyways because wedding stores are lame and don’t let you take pictures so it’s all I have:
The fabric on the bottom is actually more crinkly and less perfect than the picture suggests. I hate the skirt in the picture but love it in real life.
So you probably think I’m nuts because the dresses are so totally different and that’s the problem, I can’t even combine elements of the two at all. So I’m going to do a pro and con list.
DRESS#1
Pros:
1. It is the most comfortable dress I’ve ever worn. Seriously amazing.
2. It’s really different from the average wedding dress.
3. It’s not heavy.
4. It’s not strapless so I don’t have to worry about that aspect.
5. It goes with the theme and colours of my wedding: bright pink, bright yellow and a casual, fun vibe.
6. I love it!
Cons:
1. The amazing, comfortable fabric that it is made out of might be hard to find? (because my mom is making it). Maybe it won’t be hard to find though.
2. I might regret not having a big poufy dress on the one night that I can? Then again I won’t have many chances to wear a dress like this again, either.
3. …it’s not the other dress?
DRESS #2:
Pros:
1. It’s so pretty!
2. It’s very bride-like.
3. Everyone in the store loved it and I even made a stranger’s mom cry.
4. I love it!
5. It’s really, really, really flattering.
Cons:
1. It’s not very different which is what I thought I wanted in my wedding dress, and still think I may want. Or maybe not. Who knows.
2. … it’s not the other dress? I guess either way I will have to give up on something I like, which is a bit disappointing, but either way I will also get something that I love.
So, readers, I need your two cents. Talk to me about everything that went through your head while choosing a wedding dress or with the choice you ended up making. Or if you aren’t married, tell me what you know about wedding dresses. And of course give me your opinions on these.
Real life friends, I need you to come to Nicholas and Elizabeth with me in a couple Saturdays so you can see the second dress in person which actually does it justice and help me make a rational decision.
