Thursday, July 31, 2008

Why selecting one dress for a quartet of 20-somethings is easier than selecting one dress for the MoB

Because your female attendants are 20-something, it probably won't be perfect for any of them, so you're aiming for really good on all of them, and they have professed no hopes of wearing the dress again.

Mom, on the other hand, needs something age-appropriate but not frumpy, shouldn't settle for something less than lovely as we're picking it just for her, and will hopefully be able to wear it to the marriages of all her children (at least if she wants to). Plus, she works at a hardware store, and she's not very used to dressing up, these days.

Since she lives at least an hour drive from me and I don't have a car, the internet was my first resort. These are the finalists:
a) Nordstrom.com

b) TJFormal.com

c) OnlineWeddingDeals.com

d) OnlineWeddingDeals.com

e) HouseofBrides.com

f) HouseofBrides.com


We did go shopping in person once, but we didn't find anything great for a winter wedding.

Thoughts? Preferences? Suggestions?
Two years and change is a really long time - and unfortunately, I'm back with an ulterior motive.

When I started to plan my wedding, I thought that I'd be one of the more organized, punctual, proactive, efficient, and generally with-it brides-to-be out there. Not that I was as deluded as he was that we'd have everything done after the first few months, but I figured that when project managers marry, it can't be too bad.

When project managers marry. That hearkens uncannily to "when (insert animals here) attack."

Well, let's start in media res.

We're attempting to learn to dance. Not that we don't know how to dance, actually we tend to tear it up at parties to the extent that total strangers will comment to the hosts. And usually in a nice (if slightly embarrassed on our behalf) way. But I mean dance in the official sense.
Luckily for us, my little sister, who is of many talents, was a competitive ballroom dancer in college, and she mostly remembers how to do it all. So, based on our first dance song of choice, she selected the International Foxtrot for us, which I'm told is an incredibly difficult dance, but the American Foxtrot is supposedly its very plain (read boring) cousin, and after one lesson, we had basically learned how to do it without turns. Not that I have any idea how difficult it will be to learn the turns, but obviously this dance is not enough of a challenge for us.

Really. What else are we going to do with ourselves for the next six months? Plan a wedding? Pshaw.