Ahhh I am so excited to be writing about this today! All of my wedding series posts have been so fun to write but this one is extra special for obvious reasons… Let’s get started!
I’m not someone who had every detail of my wedding planned before we got engaged but I’m also not someone who’d never thought about it before – I guess I was somewhere in the middle. So, I sort of knew what I was going for in the dress department but I was very open to trying a bunch of different styles. In a pretty spur of the moment deal, we first went to a local wedding dress shop to “just look.” I’ll chalk it up to the fact that I definitely was not expecting to get engaged on the day that I did so my mom and I were so excited that we decided to go looking the very next day. Luckily, the dress shop had some open appointments for walk-ins that morning so I was able to actually try on a few right then and there. Right off the bat, I found a dress that I thought could be the one and another close runner up. Both of them were very different from each other… one was exactly what I always thought I’d get married in and the other was so “me.” But I wanted some other opinions so I put the names of both of the dresses on file with the shop and scheduled an appointment for the next weekend where my Mommom could also come and share her thoughts.
Of course, if my Mommom was going to come, we had to make it a more full and fun day so I also scheduled an appointment at my DREAM dress shop. We started out our day at the first place, trying on the two dresses I’d liked before. As it turns out, I found a totally different dress that I liked even better than the first two and it quickly became what I thought could definitely be “the dress.” I was so sure it was my dress that I almost cancelled my appointment at the other shop but we decided we should just go because it wouldn’t hurt. We grabbed a bite to eat and headed to my next appointment. I don’t want to reveal where I got my dress until after the wedding but it was the most beautiful shop with the most incredible dresses! I tried on a few and they all beat the dresses from the first place so, basically, it’s a good thing we didn’t cancel this appointment. My favorite one from this shop just felt different. It was so me but also fits our venue and style of wedding perfectly and I just LOVED it! But since I’d been ready to buy a few dresses at that point, we decided to wait a week, come back, try it on again, and then see if I still wanted to order. As it turns out, when we came back the next weekend, I was even more in love with it than the first time I tried it on so we ordered and the rest is history!
The dress has already arrived (!!!), I just have to get it altered – I’m so excited! If I had to give one piece of advice for wedding dress shopping, I’d say look for a dress that you feel like your best self in. There was a dress that, in the moment, I probably liked better than the one I ended up ordering – I was very taken by it, it was beautiful! But the longer I wore it, the more it just didn’t feel right, didn’t feel like me. I didn’t feel like my best self in it and on your wedding day, you should feel like you – the best you. As we get closer to the wedding, we’re getting more and more excited and now we’re officially 7 months away from our day… so crazy. And now I can picture our day even better because I know what I’ll be wearing… woohoo! If you have any ideas about what my wedding dress looks like, leave them in the comments – I’d love to hear what you think!
The next blog post in my wedding series is going to be all about figuring out the size of your wedding… how many guests is right for you? Be sure to check back in a few weeks for that – I’ll see you then!