crushing dreams

Well, I seem to be more or less destroying every fantasy my mother has ever had about me getting married.

My mom always thought I would have a giant wedding cake put on display... Jon and I are talking about ice cream cake from dq.

She wanted the invites to be perfect with little ribbons on them. Jon and I want to print them ourselves.

We decided to name our tables after Muppets... and for our wedding favors, we are buying a llama or two for heifer international and donating them.



Yeah... not exactly my mom's idea wedding.

I am not huge into flowers, and the church is not a gorgeous old gothic one.



The latest dream I have shattered was the dress shopping.

I got my dress today... it took an hour. Yes, that is right, an hour. We went to a wonderful place in Horsham. The set up is fantastic and I would highly recommend it to ANYONE looking for any sort of dress. I had an hour and a half appt with a woman dedicated to dressing me.

She had me put on a slip and stupid me, I forgot my strapless bra... so I (shudder) had to use one of theirs. She had set out a 34 A. I laughed myself silly and asked her if she got a good look at me. She looked again and changed her mind appropriately.

Anyway, I picked out about 8 dresses. The first three I tried on, I really liked. I tried on maybe two more dresses and the woman said, I have a dress for you. She came back with the dress. I tried it on and liked it. I tried on maybe 4 dresses after that... did not really like them. So then I tried on the first three one more time... then that one again. And that was it. I loved it.

The dress is everything I never thought I wanted in a dress. I would describe it, but that sort of has to be hush hush until my wedding day. Its really beautiful. AND it makes me look hot. Girls, you are going to wish you were me... guys, you are going to wish you were marrying me. You know I am not all full of myself or anything even remotely close... but I look hot in the dress, and i do not think I have ever said I look hot in anything before!

It is just beautiful and I feel beautiful in it. Like I said - it is nothing I thought I wanted, yet it is perfect.

The woman working with me had been doing this for 10 years, and she said you just get a feel for that person and for their body and then you can kinda suggest things. Well, it totally worked.


I also thought I did not want to wear a veil... but mom won out... and it turns out I really liked the veils. My mom and I are going to try to make one.

Let's just put it this way - the ones I was trying on were $250!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you freakin KIDDING ME?! Its a 5 cent plastic comb and like a yard of tulle. PLEASE.

So yes, we are going to attempt it and see what happens.


I would tell you what the dress cost, but I have no idea. Nan and my mom are paying for it and my mom would not tell me. Naturally, they take the tags off of the dresses before you try them on so that you fall in love and never look at the price.

So I am gonna guess it was WAY more than I wanted to pay... but what the heck, right? You get to look that hot once, and I will never really have the opportunity to be the way I am now again. Might as well enjoy youth... and non-saggy boobs. :)



Anyway, its lovely, and I am glad my mom and I got to go. She was a little bummed that we found it so quick... but she cried when I put it on, so I guess that is it.


My mom and I also went back to the flower warehouse and picked up everything we needed for the centerpieces, minus the hurricane lanterns. I am going to try to find them online for cheaper than they were there. We shall see.



So plans are progressing well, and I am happy. I love the dress. And I know Jon will love it too... so.... yay! :)