THE Shoes

Again, like the dress I was perusing the web for any and every shoe I could find and wandered the malls in a zombie-like state hoping to find some sort of inspiration or moment with at least something. In this state I eventually wandered into a Payless where they had a selection (called Unforgettable Moments) that could be dyed and found a style that I enjoyed but was hesitant about. Eventually, after looking through a few shops with my fiancee's sister, we found a pair at a shoe store that were in brown but the same style as a pair that I found on www.unforgettablemoments.com that the both of us believed would do well with my dress. I decided to go with the pair at Unforgettable Moments but in white and in a wide size to fit my big feet. I need to get in some some practice walking around time before the big day but they're fairly comfortable considering that they're 3" heels.















I finally got to wear them with the dress when I went up to Spokane to try on other items but I really like these shoes. The sales associate brought to my attention that I needed to be careful or mindful or the white part my toes stand on because it gets dirty very easily. Other than that shoes = check.

My Dress, THE Dress

This was just one of the projects that I started that I knew could be completed without knowing the venue. I started out just by paying attention and researching the heck out of dresses I could wear, what different types there were, fabrics, the whole works and now that I've settled with the dress I bought everything I learned has probably all been forgotten. The best advice I could give to anyone is to just look and be open to trying on whatever.

After doing this massive research I decided to start looking at David's Bridal's entire catalog and saved the ones I thought were interesting to the my favorites section. The list got really long after a while but after sorting them by price (which helped me eliminate a few), style, shape, material, etc I had a better idea on how to narrow down the list. Luckily for me, I was able to get a really nice sales associate and friend to help me out while I tried on at least 30 dresses.

NO PEEKING CHUCK!!!
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This is what I got:


















































I was extremely lucky to buy this for under $300 and I was happy to find that even though it was a discontinued style, I was able to fit into the size 8 they had. There are a few bits that need alteration and I do plan on changing the top from a straight neckline to a sweetheart neckline but overall I like it. Ignore the embarrassing skin spillage on the top of the dress, I haven't been able to get rid of it or find any sites for exercises to reduce this but hopefully all I'll need is a simple alteration for this to be fixed. I have yet to set up an alteration date but it probably won't be until May 2010 so there's plenty of time to try and get rid of that flubber. I'm content with the dress for now, but for a moment I was worried that it looked too much like something a high school kid would wear.

Since then I've been able to buy a slip, plain veil, plain blusher and torsolette from David's Bridal and shoes from Payless Unforgettable Moments but none of that is pictured here. As far as other projects I have in mind, I plan on dying the slip a light blue (testing results in next post) and possibly beading the veil but I have no set ideas on a pattern. I do have a bit of a problem while I'm in the dress with sweating but this could be fixed by finding some underwear or shorts with wicking properties to keep me from getting too nasty with sweat.

Square One

Starting from the beginning is the best way I can think to open this blog. So far I don't have a grand scheme put together and I'm still in the browsing stages that I'm sure most of you are going through. Everything will get easier and go faster once my fiancee and I book a place because we've found out through looking around at venue websites that there are a lot of restrictions and most of them require you to use the services they provide. Once we find out what we can and can't do in the place we reserve it should be all downhill from there... or so we hope. For now I'm just gathering as many ideas together as I can, seeing what I can get started now so I don't have to stress out about it later and hopefully as this all comes together I don't change my mind too often or too drastically

Like most you out there, I've been collecting photos for some time and while I do have the links to the majority of what I found, there might be a few where I slipped up. The best way I found to keep track of all this was to put the url in the properties portion of whatever photo I grabbed to remind me later where I got it from. So as a typical disclaimer if you see something that's yours that I forgot to credit then please say something so you can get credit.