After getting mad for the umpteenth time that The Knot's bridesmaid page is focused on making bridesmaids feel inadequate for not taking a month's vacation to help brides (I exaggerate, but seriously, I don't think they realize that bridesmaids don't always live in the same town as the bride), I decided to write a bridesmaid blog. I figured I had enough experience to share my opinions.
In similar news, using my bridesmaid experience, I've been helping my college roommate plan her wedding. It's sad that I know how long it takes to get bridesmaid dresses in, and how long it takes for bridal gown alterations, and so on and so forth, but I'm glad that it's helping someone!!
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tales from a Bridesmaid, Part III
Wedding #2 has been over for 4 days... that must mean it's time to start thinking ahead to the next one... right? Right.
Picked up bridesmaid dress #3 today from David's Bridal. The good news: I should have no problems with fitting into this dress in June. The bad news: I kinda hate David's Bridal's dress designers a whole heck of a lot. They create these dresses that I swear have to be differently sized on the top than they are on the bottom.
See, we've got a similar problem with this dress as the last one and how the top will fit but the bottom won't or the bottom will fit and the top won't. I'm not complaining- because this one I could afford to go up in size to get the bottom to fit without fear of ripping or it falling off (thank you thick straps). But it's got to say something when the woman doing alterations made the comment, "Well, you couldn't go down a size and still fit... but you may want to think about taking in the shoulders and the sides." And the price for these alterations? More than the cost of the dress. I do not kid... they'd have to rebuild the body of the dress to fit my torso better. Again- this dress wouldn't fit so well if I went down a size. And as much as it pains me to say, this dress is also 2 sizes bigger than the dress I wore Saturday and last May. Can anyone explain this fact to me? Nicoletta offered to cut the size tag out of the dress for me so that I will stop thinking about that.
So now, my mom is going to be doing the hem and the shoulders herself, and I'll just get a loose dress instead of fitted. I'll be more comfortable anyways! Woohoo for that fact!!!
Picked up bridesmaid dress #3 today from David's Bridal. The good news: I should have no problems with fitting into this dress in June. The bad news: I kinda hate David's Bridal's dress designers a whole heck of a lot. They create these dresses that I swear have to be differently sized on the top than they are on the bottom.
See, we've got a similar problem with this dress as the last one and how the top will fit but the bottom won't or the bottom will fit and the top won't. I'm not complaining- because this one I could afford to go up in size to get the bottom to fit without fear of ripping or it falling off (thank you thick straps). But it's got to say something when the woman doing alterations made the comment, "Well, you couldn't go down a size and still fit... but you may want to think about taking in the shoulders and the sides." And the price for these alterations? More than the cost of the dress. I do not kid... they'd have to rebuild the body of the dress to fit my torso better. Again- this dress wouldn't fit so well if I went down a size. And as much as it pains me to say, this dress is also 2 sizes bigger than the dress I wore Saturday and last May. Can anyone explain this fact to me? Nicoletta offered to cut the size tag out of the dress for me so that I will stop thinking about that.
So now, my mom is going to be doing the hem and the shoulders herself, and I'll just get a loose dress instead of fitted. I'll be more comfortable anyways! Woohoo for that fact!!!
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