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| And the dress looks hella cute with Chucks. Can't go wrong there. |
wed in the most pe-cu-li-ar way
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
$60 Wedding Dress
I walked into a vintage shop on Melrose. Found this dress. And fell in love with it. The dress search could have been that easy. No muss. No fuss. Just tried the sucker on, walked out of the dressing room, and felt like a bride. DONE. I could have avoided all the bullshit bridal salon visits... the gajillion posts about how I want a short dress for the reception... and how I shouldn't have bought this gown, or this gown, or even dreamed about tearing apart this gown to make this gown... and have to eventually grapple with getting alterations... It would have been that easy. Le sigh. In the end, I did not buy this gorgeous vintage dress. I was tempted... but I already have a dress... a dress that I am extremely balls-lucky to wear on my wedding day. I don't have it yet (the designer is making it as I type!), but I promise I will reveal it to you once I go for my first fitting. I am SO excited about it. It's going to be short, unique, eco-friendly, and full of sass. I can't wait to see it!
What was the dress search like for you guys? How many did you try on, or buy, before you landed on the one that felt the most "you"?
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oh thats so cute! you should have bought it anyway!!!
ReplyDeleteI like this dress better than your real one...I am a terrible, terrible person.
ReplyDeleteStore intel please. For those of us in the middle of that gazillion-posts-about-dresses hell.
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I would have bought it just for the hell of it. Ps, I'm trying to figure out who you look like. Like, a celebrity or something. Ugh...it's been bugging me since your e-pics. I'll figure it out one of these days.
ReplyDeleteLookin mad cute!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the dress! I tried on about 25 a a bridal store, the last one I tried on was the winner.
ReplyDeleteon my first trip it was the fourth dress- new it was "the one" especially when I stepped out of the dressing room to my family & friends who were all silent...yup it's this one!
ReplyDeletetake a look
http://paperflora2.blogspot.com/2010/03/official-wedding-video.html
or
http://vimeo.com/8988308
OH MY GOD! You're wearing my ideal wedding dress! Pity I live in Scotland and would need to diet FOREVER to fit into. Looks great with the Chucks.
ReplyDeleteJo x
cuuuuuuuuuuute!!! but i can't wait to see THE dress :):)
ReplyDeleteYeah, totally living vicariously through you on this dress bull shit. Glad your situation seems to be on it's way to working out for you!!! Gives me some hope :)
ReplyDeleteI have a dress, but it's certainly not "THE ONE". The search was (and still is) absolute hell for me. I hate wedding dresses. I did the grand tour of practically every bridal boutique in my absolutely fashion-less area in a desperate search for some sort of fun (SHORT!) bridal alternative on the $500 scale to no avail, and in a panic bought one of the last of at LEAST 60 dresses I tried on that was remotely interesting - non-bridal LONG "evening" gown covered in sequins HAAAAAA. I'm having the absolute WORST buyer's remorse and am secretly desperately hoping to find out that the alterations are going to cost too much to justify keeping it. God only knows how i think i'll find another though! Or how I'd get rid of this one!
LOVE this dress!
ReplyDeletei wanted a vintage dress, but after casually searching for a few months i realized my chance of finding a dress that (a) i loved AND (b) fit my kinda-plus-size frame was not likely. then i thought about having a vintage reproduction made... but when i really examined my favorite styles (mostly late 30s/early 40s) i realized i wouldn't like the way the would look on me!
so i went with a wai-ching dress instead and am happy as can be with my choice!