THE dress!!

So most of you have me on Facebook, too. But because I'm just way too excited: I BOUGHT MY WEDDING DRESS!! And a little warning: This is an extremely long post about my search for my wedding dress. It's boring unless you are me and really excited right now. So don't expect anything more than that!!

If you had asked me Wednesday night if I would find a dress that was obviously "the" one, I would have told you absolutely not. Wednesday my sister and I went to a bridal store in West, JoAnn's, which is amazing. I had been there before with my parents and found a dress that I liked a lot. Well this time I tried that dress on again and was less impressed with it and found another dress that I liked more. Then we went to David's Bridal and I found 3 that I liked a lot, but left the store frustrated with the fact that I could not figure out which one I liked the most (Not even after having my mother, brother, sister in-law, and father come to the store to tell me their opinion).

We went out for my brother's 23rd birthday dinner with me feeling sorry for myself (how dumb) at the fact that I had gone dress shopping 5 times and tried on 35 dresses and could not find the dress. I was convinced that I wasn't the type of girl to find "the" dress.

Thursday, I woke up a little more hopeful. I had to go to Denton and my sister and mother were coming along so that we could go look at Bridal Co. It's a store in Denton that has really beautiful dresses for really cheap. Needless to say, it was a bust when it came to what I want. NOTHING appealed to me.

You see, for some reason I really wanted to find the dress before Seth came back from his summer detail. That is 35 days away at this point, so there is no rush. In fact, my wedding is... I guess 50 weeks away, so there is no rush.

But I decided that I liked one of the dresses at David's Bridal and only needed to get a broach to go with it as my only complaint was that it was too simple. We stopped by Sam Moon's in North Fort Worth and bought a broach and were on our way to the David's Bridal in Fort Worth. I tried on the dress and liked it. Staring at what I thought was my dress. Then the consultant asked me if I wanted to try on a dress that she thought would look beautiful on me and be just what I wanted.

I consented and fell in love. It is nothing like what I thought I wanted. In fact, if you told me the details of this dress a week ago, I would have told you that a dress like that would never be for me. The feeling i got when I looked in the mirror at my reflection was one that I have never felt, and one I'll never feel again. I found it and it's mine and I love it.

Now the hard part will be to keep it in the bag in my closet until it's time to take it to get the bustle put on it in preparation for my bridal pictures. :)