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!!!THE DRESS IS ORDERED!!!
I can't believe it. I have actually ordered my wedding dress. I'm done. No more looking. . . well. . not to buy anyways. After two weeks of looking through racks and racks of beautiful wedding dresses I was getting pretty frustrated. Every bride I talked to was telling me, "you'll know.. you'll just put it on and you'll know." Thing was.. I had tried on over 60 gowns and not one left me teary eyed. I tried on ball gowns, mermaids, a-lines, belted, strapless, laced, buttoned, and even a pink gown.(Suggested by the retailer..not me*) Yet, there I was with no dress and no idea of what I wanted. That was until I threw all of my pre-conceived ideas of the dress I "knew" I would walk down the aisle in out the window and returned to the first bridal salon we visited to look again. This time we picked all sorts of dresses from the rack and were going in with an open mind and hopeful heart. As I was about to enter the dressing area one of the assistants asked if I would be interested in trying on a brand new bridal gown they had just received that afternoon. She literally lifted the gown out of the brown cardboard box and draped it infront of me. My mom and I looked at one another and knew this one was different. It was completely different than the others in the store and would leave anyone breathless. It was the first dress I tried on that night and was the last one I took off. I didn't know instantly that I loved this dress but after a few minutes of standing infront of the mirror and a few comments from my mom I knew this was it. This was the dress that i'd marry my future husband in and the dress that would forever mark the "prettiest day" of my life. We ordered it January 14th and it will be here middle of May!