Shopping for the Dress!

I knew this was going to be one item that I would not budge on.  I'm not a David's Bridal kind of girl and I was willing to pick up the cost if it went over my parents budget to get my dream dress.  I started researching bridal stores around the DMV area and came across Betsy Robinson Bridal in Pikesville, MD.  They had some mixed reviews that I was kind of uneasy about, but they carried tons and tons of designers so I knew I would have a lot of dresses to choose from in the styles that I liked. Plus they carried the designer Lazaro who happened to make a dress that I have been admiring for about a year now!  My sister, Mother, my niece Caeley, Miss Kelly (my mother in law) and 2 of my best friends Jamie and Britney came with me the Saturday I tried dresses on. 

I met with Joyce my consultant and showed her the handful of pictures I had of dresses that I liked along with the Lazaro one!  She went and pulled about 5 dresses that fit the description that I had given her.  I'm very open to trying different things on because something that can look absolutely hideous on a hanger can be so beautiful on.  I know what I like and I'm pretty quick about it and set if I like something.  My style is very different from my mother, my sister, and my best friend Jamie.  I didn't want to look like a fufu princess, I didn't want a blinged out wedding dress, and I didn't want any type of flowers or a belt with the dress.  I wanted it simple and elegant, yet modern and for the dress to have enough beauty that it didn't need anything extra, just a simple veil, and some gorgeous earrings and thats it.  Oh and NO tiara!  I think they are so god awful tacky! I put the first dress on it was very modern, the look I was going for, but the waist came up way too high, I wanted it to be more of a drop waist, but I went out and showed them anyways and they liked it, but knew it wasn't the right one so back into the dressing room I went.  Before I even had the second dress on I was like OMG I love this one, it's exactly what I had invisioned!  I put it on and walked out with a huge smile on my face saying I love this one, it's exactly what i've pictured!  Well nobody was really saying anything so I said mom what do you think? "ah I don't know, it's different"  same answers pretty much followed with my sister and Jamie, but Britney being the sweetheart she is was hiding behind everyone giving me a thumbs up!  She knows me and my style and knew it was a Paige dress right away!  I think they had a hard time looking past the huge hunch back I had from this pillow they stuffed down the back of the dress since it was about 2 sizes too big!  I was like what don't you like about it, "the bottom" I was like well it's only the second dress lets try some others on.  I tend to always go with the first or second dress, all my prom dresses were this way too!  So back into the dressing room we went and I tried on a Kenneth Pool dress that was stunning! But wasn't me...the dress was so pretty on and I really did like it, but it was a little too much of a princess dress for me.  After that my mom and sister started going crazy pulling dresses that I had no desire to try on.  "Paige try this Mermaid dress on" so I put it on and was like ew, I am wayyyyyyy too curvey for this, so when I came back out in another dress besides the mermaid dress my mom goes "try on the mermaid one" I told her "I did it's ugly and i'm not showing you it because I don't like it" lol after that I told them all to "STOP pulling dresses because they weren't even pulling the right sizes or sytles that I liked, that Joyce knows what I like so she's pulling for me". 

I don't even really remember the other 2 or 3 dresses to follow because I was set and in love with the second dress.  My sister and Jamie ended up pulling a dress and said try this one on it's like the second dress you like but a little different at the bottom.  Joyce my consultant proceeds to tell them "that is the same exact dress as the one that she likes and you all didn't, but in a smaller size"  HAHAHAHA! Now that means that dress # 2 is meant to be! I put on another dress that was very similar to the second dress I  loved liked except the whole bottom was tuelle.  I liked this one as well so I knew it was down to either this one or the second one.  I went back and forth between these 2 dresses trying them on 3 more different times and talking to my friends and family until I decided dress number 2 was it!  They knew I loved it!  I put it back on and sold them on it.  After keeping in mind that it is a sample dress the bottom has probably pulled some and after fixing it up some they decided that they did like it.  I never cried, I just smiled, I had a huge burst of happiness in that dress!  To top it off the dress ended up coming in wayyyyyy under my budget so it made me love it even more!  They measured me all up and ordered my perfect dress!  It should be in an another 3 months and then i'll go back to the bridal store and pick out earrings and my veil!  Of course you can't see the dress but i'll give you the designer, it's Maggie Sottero, and i'll even show you the Kenneth Poole one I tried on that was a little too princess for me and Sunday Rose, the first dress that's waist was too high =)



Monique lhuillier Sunday Rose




Kennth Pool