It's HERE!

Fishboy! Turn Around and Step Away From THE COMPUTER! This is not for you eyes! K, thanks love you!

 

Is he gone? Ok, good! Remember back 6 months ago when I told you all about the "perfect" dress that I'd found while I was shopping by myself? Or if you need a  refresher click on over and read all about it. 
  

  

I plopped my money down for the dress and walked out of the store, a happy fishie. I've been in an out of that store too many times to count in the last 6 months and never gave the dress a second thought so I'm not entirely sure what made me think of it when MOH Belle went shopping for her dress but as we're standing up at the counter paying for her dress I casually asked the nice lady if my dress had even been ordered yet. Her response? "Didn't they call you?" Alright, I'm not normally one to overreact but this sent shivers down my spine my brain went into chaos mode and started thinking crazy thoughts like 'they lost my order...', 'my dress has been discontinued...', or even worse 'the company went out of business...' now, I know that last one was a stretch but I was panicking. When I was finally able to mumble out "no, they didn't" the nice lady at the Bridal Shoppe told me "it just came in..." and then she said the best 7 words in the English language at that time "do you want to try it on?" Heck ya I wanted to try it on! And then the bad thoughts started creeping in, it'd been 6 months since I'd seen it what if I didn't like it anymore? What if, it's not the right color?, What if...what if...? 

And then I tried it on and all the "what if..."s went right out the window! I loved the dress, even more then the first time I tried it on. The color was perfect, and everything was fine in my little world.

Fortunately the dress really doesn't need much alterations...the strap is a little long and the hem needs to be shortened and the bustle needs to be added but that's all very doable so I'm super excited! Oh, and what's your opinions on the veil...I'm leaning towards the one in the last picture or none at all. But I'm not entirely sure!

The Dress Saga Has Ended...

Since I know you're all absolutely RIVETED by the vast amount of drama surrounding my search for the PERFECT dress starting with my laid back approach here to the failed attempt at trying to involve my family and friends here and the latest installment here involving a love affair with a dress that wasn't destined to have a happy ending, unfortunately. I looked and thanks to my wonderful cousins' wifeys I found a store that had the dress I wanted but I just couldn't motivate myself to make the trip to the Twin Cities to go look at it-but I think that everything happens for a reason and I just wasn't destined to have that dress.

Wedding Dress Designers Should Be Shot...

Now, I'm not one to be prone to bouts of self-doubt and self-loathing. I have a pretty healthy sense of self-esteem, I'm not overly inflated with myself but at the same time I'm able to look in the mirror and say "hey, I'm one hot sexy girl". However, all that self-esteem flew right out the window when I started trying on dresses. I turned into a crying ball of self-doubting goo.

Dress Love...

Alright well if you've been following the saga (here and here) that has been my dress hunting. You have probably realized that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing or what in the world I want. However that has all changed. I have found my dress...it's gorgeous, it's sleek and sophisticated, it's fitted but still allows me to move. In a word, it's PERFECT! I can hear the choir of angels singing the hallelujah chorus

The Wedding Dress Shopping that Almost Wasn't

This is the story of my latest adventure into wedding dress shopping or, as I like to call it..."Help Fishie Buy a Dress so she Doesn't Walk Down The Aisle Naked-extravaganza" the poor consultants at the dress shops never knew what they were in for when they agreed to take my appointment. Unfortunately, this fun adventure almost never happened. Between work schedules, school schedules, and health issues it was down to the wire and people started backing out left and right. As any good fishie would, I was understanding and told everyone it was fine that it was OK that they were backing out on me. Inside was a different story, I was starting to get frustrated and throwing a temper tantrum that would make a 3 year old jealous. It was enough to make even the most even tempered, laid back bride loose it. My party went from having over 8 people a week earlier to now it was down to me, MOH Fishie, and FMIL Fishie. Which, although fun, wasn't what I was expecting. So what's a frustrated, angry, fishie to do? Call in reinforcements of course!

Dress Shopping The Fishie Way

Here's how deciding to go dress shopping went...

 

Tuesday afternoon I recieved an email from a local bridal shoppe about a sale they're having on Sunday. After one quick email and a few texts to fabulous madre Fishie, we'd decided to go together. I started to think about it and decided maybe I'd better ask sista fish, and the fish maids if they'd be available to go with too. Well, sista fish had plans, one fish maid lives 3 hours away, and the other was going to come until she needed to have a root canal. (I gave her a pass on coming after I heard about that) So it was just madre Fishie and me.

Wedding Dress Tips from a Master

Gandma Fishie has been a seamstress for what seems like a million years in reality it's probably been at least 50+ years. This woman has seen wedding dress trends come and go;

The Good,

The Bad,

and the Ugly!