As
previously mentioned, my mom and I have had a difficult time finding a bridal shop that is still open for business
in our area. Thankfully, we finally tasted success yesterday! Nevertheless,
failure comes before success. We found a shop located in a quiet downtown area
where very little seems to be going on. When we walked in the door we were
greeted nonchalantly and were basically told it was useless being there without
an appointment. Understandable under most circumstances. However, this little
shop had no other customers and two people "working" (they were
chatting with each other and found it an inconvenient road block in their
conversation to have to deal with me). Somewhat frustrated,
we decided not to waste any more time and headed to Grand Rapids.
In Grand Rapids we found a cute little boutique with superb service
and selection. I have a very refined, simple taste so about 90% of the
dresses were an immediate "no". I quickly selected five dresses to
try and the very first one I put on was THE ONE. I was a little freaked out to
be happy that fast so I tried on the rest and even left without my dress. We
thought it best to try one more shop just to be sure and to enjoy the
experience a while longer. However, the entire way there I was thinking
"why did I leave my dress at that shop. I'm never going to find anything
else and I'll be miserable for months if it sells out."
The third shop was
also nice but every dress I tried on just wasn't right. From the overdone
beading, to the fact that they weighed as much as I do, they just
weren't for me. Panic set in when the realization that we had wasted an
hour driving and looking at this shop and the boutique where my dress resided
was going to close in 30 minutes. We frantically called them hoping they knew
of a faster way to get back to the boutique. The owner insisted that it
wasn't a problem for them to stay a little bit later for me and gave us
detailed directions how to get back. Thrilled, we drove back to the
boutique, attacked the Keurig machine, and bought my wedding dress!
I had been dreading wedding dress shopping due to the fact that I
thought I would never find anything I liked within the constraints of my
budget. My dress was actually UNDER my initial budget, imagine that! I'm still
somewhat shocked that I bought the very first dress I tried on. It was basically love at first sight. The
instant my dress was pulled off the rack, I knew I was going to love
it. Obviously, I'm not going to give any hints to what it looks like since
Andrew and I share this URL space. What's another 336 days when I've been
waiting almost 21 years to see what my dress would look like. :)
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