wedding dress shopping

I went wedding dress shopping with It Girl, Little Sister and Mrs. Newlywed today. Well, we went bridesmaid shopping for Little Sister, but Mrs. Newlywed and I got sidetracked picking out my wedding dress. (We kept getting yelled at or getting distracted, but it's hard not to! I'm like a cat who is easily distracted by shiny things.) I think it’s perfectly natural to find the dress before you find the man. The dress is more important anyway, right? It’s funny: I’m normally a pretty laid back and casual dresser. I don’t really dress too flashy on a daily basis. I'm a self-proclaimed jeans and t-shirt kinda gal. I love a good pair of tennis shoes. Every now and then I do like a good sparkle for a special occasion. All of my dresses for dances in high school had sparkles or rhinestones on them. When I worked at Ed Debevic’s, my characters name was Sparkle and I wore really sparkly tights. Really sparkly. I think my law prom dresses have both been sparkly. I think I just like to shine when it’s a fancy occasion. So, of course I was drawn to the dresses with lots and lots of rhinestones and sparkliness. Mrs. Newlywed tried to show me one dress that was extremely elegant. But, it was plain. Not a sparkle or piece of lace anywhere. Next. There are so many beautiful dresses out there! I don’t even know how I’ll choose when the time comes. I think today is the first time I’ve ever been in a Bridal Boutique. I wasn’t able to go with my bestest estest friend when she got married, cause she flew over to New York from London (where she lives) to buy a dress. I would have been a blubbering mess! Today, there was a girl who I didn’t even know trying on a dress in one of the boutiques. She looked so beautiful that I got teary! Her mom was crying and they thought it was funny that I was getting a little misty eyed. I was just so happy for her. I think it’s definitely possible to be completely happy for a total stranger. Mrs. Newlywed and I convinced her that that was the dress. We should have earned a commission! There were so many beautiful brides there. I think I’m going to drop out of law school and work at a bride store. How happy would that be?? I’d just cry all the time probably. Happy tears are a good thing though! Or so I tell myself. I didn’t actually try any dresses on. I’m not THAT crazy. I’ll save that for next time. It Girl was the fashion model for the dresses. She tried on a couple different ones. I learned that I’m really tacky. That’s what I took from the experience. She tried on this one dress that was long and yellow and chiffon. It had an embroidered part on the top that was slightly bedazzled or something. And I thought it was pretty. They all thought it was tacky. So, I said “Oh yeah…that’s what I thought too….totally tacky!” I guess I just blew my cover by admitting it on here. Oops. I thought it was pretty. What of it?! We didn’t find any dresses today, but it was a fun adventure. We also learned that many bridal salons are closed on Sundays. That seems like a weird statement of our society: that brides don’t work during the week, so they have time to go to the bridal store to try on dresses, but spend all day in church on Sundays. I’m all for going to church on Sundays if that’s your thing. But, I’m not taking a day off of work to try on a wedding dress that I need the job to afford in the first place. Dresses are SO expensive!! All the ones I like were like 3,000 plus! Do I get bars of gold with that? It’s a dress! Guess I’m getting married in jeans and a tank top.