Dress Shopping as done by a Rockstar Bride

The dress process for me was .. whatever. Anyone who knows me, know that I hate shopping when I:

1) I don't know what I want
2) I know what I want but I can't find it

By the time I went dress shopping, I already knew the dress I wanted.

Let me take you through my wedding dress process:

Step 1: Look through wedding magazines. The first wedding magazine I bought after Jer and I got engaged, was a Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine. I flipped through the magazine and earmarked all the dresses I liked.

Step 2: Go back through the dresses I liked and logon on to each dress maker's website and mark, in the magazine, the store and phone number to the store.

Step 3: Keep going back to that one dress, that for whatever reason, keeps drawing you in. This was the picture of "that dress".



Step 4: Call every store in the GTA and ask if they carry "that dress". FAIL

Step 5: Take a trip out to a few stores with your maid of honour and mother and try on every freaking style possible. Fish and Chips before the dress search is a must.

Step 6: Call every store on the website and ask if they carry "that dress". SUCCESS! result: 1 store in Windsor, and one store in Waterdown.

Step 7: Make an appointment with The Coach House Bridal Salon to got try on "the dress".

Step 8: Stop in a couple of more stores, just in case.

Step 9: Grab your maid of honour and mom and take a trip out to The Coach House Bridal Salon, first stopping for fish and chips.

Step 9:Try on "the dress" and hear from your maid of honour, "That's it. That's your dress" and reply with "I know".




Step 11: Entertain your mother by trying on more dresses, just in case.

Step 12: Order "the dress"

Step 13: Contact your bridesmaid with the mother-in-law who is a costume designer, to see if she can hook you up with her mother-in-law for alterations. "Please shorten and make me less booby please". SUCCESS!! (pic below is before the alterations)



Step 14: Day of the wedding, put the dress on and look DAMN HOT standing next to your hot and crazy Newfie friend. SUCCESS



And that's the story of how my dress, my poor partied hard in that it's dirty, holey and missing gems dress came to be my rockstar bride dress!

Dressing for Weather

So update on my girls ...

1. Mama-v-to-be. As you may recall, she ordered a dress online. Well, the company contacted her last week to tell her that the dress was noted the wrong size online, and that it's really 10 sizes smaller!! So, Kelly and the man behind the belly (Brian) boogied off to the mall and success!! A hot dress!! Fingers crossed baby-to-be chills out in the growing factor in the next couple of weeks :)

2. Robin. Not sure if it arrived yet, but she tells me she picked up hot pumps.

3. Tara. I actually found a dress at Le Chateau on Orfus Rd (a street in Toronto that houses many outlet stores). Tara came to visit at Robin's dance studio to try it on, and success! Another off the rack winner. THANK GAWD!! I bought this dress knowing it was a final sale :)



Weather Network

Anyone else wake up to snow today? I did. Starting Friday, I will be able to track the weather forecast. Sure we all know how accurate the forecast really is, but it'll give me something to do. It will also force those travelling in from out of town to anticipate crappy weather and get on the road early so they make the ceremony. PROMPT START!!!!



16 days!