The Dress

As much as I pride myself on being a low-maintenance kind of girl/bride, I am having wedding dress hang ups.

Thrift stores have ruined me because for the past 18 years, I've grown accustomed to finding really nice, original things for minor ducats. Also, I must confess that I've thought about this way too much throughout the course of my life to just pick something that looks nice. It has to be "right".

After going to 9 places and looking at probably thousands of dresses online, I now have a pretty firm idea of what I want. My problem, is that most things within my price range are either not what I want, or of crappy quality. And those that I do want, though reasonably priced by wedding industry standards, are beyond my budget. I'm a picky girl with a small purse.

Part of it is that I am growing to loathe the industry and the bridal consultants whose mouths drop open when I tell them that I'm getting married in May. Because don't you know it takes 4-6 months to order your dress, then there are hundreds of dollars and several months worth of alterations. BULLSHIT INDUSTRY!

I'm whining, I know. But it helps to vent to the blogoshpere. In all wedding things except this, Maybe has been my constant partner. I know that every little thing is going to be all right.