| wedding dresses |
[Oct. 2nd, 2008|11:37 pm] |
So Todd and I have done zero planning for our wedding thus far. No guest list, no venue, no date, no nothin'. As a pair of professional procrastinators, I suppose you couldn't expect much different. But, despite all of that, it's never too early to peruse dresses, right?? I feel like I've looked through almost every single designer and dress on theknot.com since the Summer. They all start to look the same after awhile, with a few exceptions.
Tonight, I went to the Burlington Mall to get myself out of the house and to get a little exercise, maybe try on a few things and just take a breather. As always, I wandered into J. Crew. I was wearing my J. Crew pants and shoes, so I didn't feel horribly out of place like I normally do. The salespeople probably take one look at me and go "she's not gonna buy anything" when I'm wandering around in my old paintsplattered jeans and junky sweatshirts haha.
I went to the mall with no intentions of buying anything. As a matter of fact, I was deliberately telling myself NOT to buy anything, because now is hardly the time for that, given my current financial situation. But then I remembered that I've made about 80 dollars online playing games (yeah...what was a boredom time passer has somehow turned into a profitable time passer), so when I zipped up the same exact pair of pants I was currently wearing in a different color and they fit like a glove, a glance at the price tag factoring in an additional 20% off sale made it hard to leave them behind. Then I grabbed a pair of jeans to try on in a size I doubted I would fit into, even though that's the size of my chinos. Usually jeans are tighter and fit weird.
Well, the jeans fit like they measured me and sewed them to order. *sigh* They were not exactly cheap, but were on sale, and I hemmed and hawed, trying to talk myself out of them. But then I thought back to every pair of jeans I own and realized that only one pair fits. The others I've had for like, 5+ years, and not one of them fit me remotely well. one's too baggy in the butt and too short in the legs. One is too baggy all over and completely frayed on the bottoms/worn in the knees, another is too baggy in the butt, not quite long enough, and 'clicks' in the crotch when I walk. Awesome. So really, none of them have ever fit correctly, but now that I've randomly lost 15 pounds, they fit even worse. It sealed the deal and I scrunched my face up and handed my credit card to the cashier. The jeans are dressy enough to wear to see a client, but casual enough for any occasion. They have a little stretch and they hug my bum without squeezing me anywhere. They don't fall down. They don't ride up. They're not super low rise so my ass crack doesn't hang out. They don't gap when I sit, and they cup the heels of my feet at a perfect length. In other words, they're perfect.
The title of my post was wedding dresses, though, and I talked about J. Crew as a segue, honest! I was tooling around on the J. Crew website after I got home to see what else was on sale and to make sure I didn't get ripped off in the store, and I clicked on the wedding dress section. J. Crew has begun to offer a wedding collection, and most of the dresses aren't really appealing to me. Too simple, or fabrics that I wouldn't be into, or just general style and drape doesn't look like it would be flattering on anyone...
...but then I saw it.
This dress. I clicked on it and I think I gasped aloud alone in my apartment with my sleeping guinea pigs. I put my hand over my mouth and I did that thing girls do when they see a really cute puppy or something. Almost like a sympathy "oh", like an "I'm going to cry in disbelief" sound. I wiped the drool from my mouth and popped my fantasy bubble picturing myself in it as my eyes searched for the price tag, praying that it would be like $300 (yeah right. though some of the J. Crew dresses are, believe it or not). Lo and behold of course it's one of the most expensive wedding dresses they have - $2,000. ouch. Zoom in on the big, raw, bleeding ulcer that is my budget (what budget?).
To reinforce the torture, here it is.
*dies* It's so perfect. It's unlike any dress I've thumbed through online. They're all so predictable and, frankly, most of them are tacky. This is youthful, and classy, and would go really well with a seaside type of theme that we're hoping we might have. It's not too over the top or dressy, and each flower is ornately detailed, not just a smattering of glitter and plastic like a lot of dresses. It looks comfortable, danceable, everything. I just looked at it and I saw myself and the type of bride I want to be. *sigh* I can has mega J. Crew wedding dress sale? Pretty please??? |
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