Guest Blogger: Wedding Dress

While thinking about how to approach the "secret location" with respect to the invitations, I danced around the idea of my wedding dress. I ran across this Tadashi dress while on the Blue Fly website looking for bridesmaid dress ideas. I thought it would almost make a nice wedding gown. Then I could not get it out of my head. I even liked the color, even though it was not at all a traditionally bridal shade.

{images from www.BlueFly.com}

There was something about it that seemed to work for a March wedding in the chilly city of Chicago. Something about it that worked with St. Patrick's Day weekend. There was just something about it.

Then this "something about it" turned out to be: SOLD OUT.

Frantic, I called Blue Fly to see if maybe they really did have one left. Nope. I ended up calling Tadashi (half-hoping Tadashi himself would answer, "Hello, this is Tadashi, how may I help you?"). I found myself explaining this dress to the woman assisting me (alas, not Tadashi). She knew exactly which dress I was talking about and told me that their warehouse only had only one left, in black. Nope, a black wedding dress was way too untraditional for me.**

She was soo helpful though, and offered to send me the black one to try on for size, along with color swatches and said they would make me a new one in a size and color of my choice, since they still had the patterns. And they would do this for the regular, orginal price! Can you believe that??

**Speaking of black and wedding dresses ... I saw this book by the chair of the woman who was doing my alterations (Soheila, the Dress Doctor – she is great) and asked her how it was. She said although it is not typically the type of book she reads, she found the author very funny and sarcastic and that it was well written.

Bitter is the New Black
by Jen Lancaster

{image from www.barnesandnoble.com}

Yet she confessed the real reason she was reading it is because she was just told that she is actually IN the book! As it turns out Jen Lancaster is a local author, who came to the Dress Doctor five or six years ago, as Soheila told me, and asked her to make a black wedding dress. She ended up puting the Dress Doctor in part of the novel! Soheila showed me the author's photo at the back of the book: a head shot of her on her wedding day, in the black dress Soheila made her.

Comments

[tina]

I love it! It looks almost like my dress!

[devon lorraine ...]

fun, tina! i will have to check your blog to see if i can find a picture of yours!

[Riley (aka Rachel)]

Wow!! What a gorgeous dress!! I love it!

[Eliana@BYSE]

love that dress!

[~M]

stunning!

[laura]

wow a custom tadashi dress, how exciting.
I love the train, and the ruffle detail.

[miss purple]

Fab dress! Similar elements to the one I ended up with, so hey, we have similar tastes!

Also, I'm currently reading that Bitter book... and it really IS awesome. I'd definitely recommend it.

[Kate]

That is a great dress and how very nice of them. I am happy that I support Tadashi, since I'm wearing one of their dresses Saturday!

[Leslie]

so lucky to have found such an amazing dress. hope it's inspiration for other brides looking to do "super snazzy outside the norm"!

[Maui Weddings]

very cute and lovely dress....