say yes to the dress

A solid number of dresses were tried on today (not all pictured here) and by the end of the three hour fitting, I was really starting to enjoy myself. The key word there is, “end.” Accompanied by my mother, her friend Linda (the woman who drove my mom to the hospital when she was prego with me) and my high school friend, Chinyere, I did my best to play into that moment of extreme excitement over a dress. The thing is, I’m very easy to please and there were so many beautiful gowns making it difficult to choose just one. As my mother’s luck would have it — the very dress I turned my nose up at on the hanger is more than likely the one I’ll be wearing on the day I say, “I do.” Leave it to my mom to have impeccable taste.

So which dress did I choose? Well, you’ll have to wait and find out. :p In the meanwhile you can take a peek at some of the other gowns that had previously won me over. It was this Nere Emiko Beth Elis piece that made my heart start beating 20,000 beats per minute. It was the same piece that almost made my heart stop when I found out the price starts at $4,000. Jenny Packham, a UK based designer, has plenty of dresses that make my mouth water and tears run from my bank account. If I were a rich girl without a conscious and there were no people starving on the planet anywhere… Sigh. Lastly, these three J. Crew pieces also were in the running: one, two, and three. (For dress number three click to start the Spring 2010 look book and the first dress in the look book is one I was digging as well.)

And so the elopement planning continues…