After a couple months of being engaged, I decided to go dress shopping again. Courtney came with me again as well. We decided to go to three shops in one day. I will split the posts up so you are bombarded with so much information all at once.
We started at 10am at a place in Mandeville, LA called Southern Bridal. It was a smaller store, but seemed to have a good selection of dresses. They had me start going through the racks and see if there was anything that I liked, then they would pull those dresses for me. About 5 dresses in I realized that almost ALL of their sample sizes were 10's or 8's.
Um.... okay. If you know me... or at least if you have seen some of the other pictures of me... I am nowhere near a size 10. I'll just throw this out there now... I am a street size 16. So... at the very best... I would MAYBE be able to squeeze into a CORSET size 12 dress. If I put it over my head... and wiggle a lot to get into to it correctly. Otherwise I need to stick with my regular size or bigger for zip up dresses, and I can do a 14 for corset dresses.
Needless to say, my selection of dresses were very slim at this store. I took a couple of 10's with me... that were corset... because they looked a bit bigger and I thought maybe there was a possibility of me squeezing into it. (wishful thinking). After two of the smaller dresses, I handed her about 4 of the dresses I picked to try on and said "here, these aren't going to work, please don't bring anymore size 8's or 10's.”
I did get into 2 dresses. A fitted one, and a more ballgown style one. These were okay dresses. Both very pretty in their own way, but neither one of them really felt right. Here are some pictures...
**note: I was going to edit these so my face wasn't in them.. cause it looks bad... but for the sake of showing that I'm not perfect, like a lot of other brides out there... I'm posting as-is. (double chin pics and all.. ugh.)**
Um.... okay. If you know me... or at least if you have seen some of the other pictures of me... I am nowhere near a size 10. I'll just throw this out there now... I am a street size 16. So... at the very best... I would MAYBE be able to squeeze into a CORSET size 12 dress. If I put it over my head... and wiggle a lot to get into to it correctly. Otherwise I need to stick with my regular size or bigger for zip up dresses, and I can do a 14 for corset dresses.
Needless to say, my selection of dresses were very slim at this store. I took a couple of 10's with me... that were corset... because they looked a bit bigger and I thought maybe there was a possibility of me squeezing into it. (wishful thinking). After two of the smaller dresses, I handed her about 4 of the dresses I picked to try on and said "here, these aren't going to work, please don't bring anymore size 8's or 10's.”
I did get into 2 dresses. A fitted one, and a more ballgown style one. These were okay dresses. Both very pretty in their own way, but neither one of them really felt right. Here are some pictures...
**note: I was going to edit these so my face wasn't in them.. cause it looks bad... but for the sake of showing that I'm not perfect, like a lot of other brides out there... I'm posting as-is. (double chin pics and all.. ugh.)**
The ever-popular boob shot. Or at least that’s what I am calling it cause its the first thing I notice. I'm going to single out this picture because see that belt in the middle? Why do bridal salons try and upsell EVERYTHING in their store. Is the belt necessary? Um, no. Is it pretty? Well, yeah... it's sparkly... what's not to love about it? Do you want to know how much they sell sparkles on a ribbon for? About $200 dollars. HA! No thanks, I'm good. Or maybe I will find one for half that on ETSY, or make it myself!
These next picture are of the more fitted dress. This was one of Courtney's favorites. She did say that the sparkly ballgown was more "Me" though. Which as many of my good friends would tell you, is pretty true. Sorry for the awkward angle!
Those are definitely not the best pictures up there. I like to talk while she is taking pictures, so my face is always doing something funny. This dress I felt didn't have enough too it. I didn't care for the flowers too much, and it seriously needed a petticoat underneath it. Is it just me, or do some of the pictures draw attention to my stomach? I don't really care for that either. It might have been the angle.
So that's it for the first store. Both dresses were nice, but not really THE dress. Plus they were both more than I wanted to pay for a "meh" dress. They did include alterations, which is nice, but still not enough to make me want to get either one of the dreses. The simple fact that I couldn't try on anymore dresses there because of the whole sample size thing kind of slimmed down their chances of me being interested in buying from them too. Oh well. On to the next one!
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