I will preface this post by saying: my wedding dress does not have pockets, and I’m ok with that.
 Alfred Angelo style 2119 has pockets It seems like designers are fascinated with giving the ladies a place to put their things during a wedding. Wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses are popping up with pockets from almost every line.
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I am still remembering the great time me and my ladies had at the bridal shower. They all competed for the best designed TP Bridal Gown. I was the judge and MOH was the moderator and timekeeper.
I didn’t realize the ladies would get so serious about the game. The competition was tough and it obviously made my decision more challenging.
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I work in an office where three of us are preparing for weddings. J is planning an offbeat kind of wedding, R is planning a very simple wedding for her 2nd marriage, and I’m planning something that will resemble a traditional wedding. We have lots of fun wedding conversations!
J told us the other day that she is wearing a green dress (the color). I started thinking about hold awesome she would looking in green and remembered that white, ivory, and champagne are not everyone’s colors.
This bride designed her dress and had it made by a friend:
 Monica and Paul's Traditional Wedding with a Twist: Offbeat Bride I know that in some cultures red is a traditional wedding color and I’ve seen some amazing red wedding dresses in bridal magazines.
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So I always knew that I would get my wedding dress custom made. And I don’t mean always as in since I’ve been engaged. I mean since I realized that I am one of the pickiest people on the face of the planet when it comes to dresses – so basically when I started to dress myself for special events. This little part of my personality still comes as a shock to most, as they all know me as a “Comfort Cootie.” That nickname was lovingly bestowed on me by Dahlia Dude, and has since stuck exceedingly well. And I must say that it rings true: I’m a jeans and tshirts kind of girl. Anyway, back to being picky.
When Dahlia Dude and I first started talking about getting married, I knew that I would never be happy with my dress unless I picked it to match the venue. And so, as our ideas of venues changed and evolved, so did my mental image of my dress. And you’d be surprised at how many mental images of wedding dresses I’ve had floating around in my head. I could probably open up a boutique at this point!!
When we finally decided on a beach wedding in Cape Town, I started working on narrowing down the images that I could find online into an inspiration board of dresses. And this is what I came up with:
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Attention all brides-to-be!!! The Limited has launched a Weddings & Events Collection, with dresses for brides and bridesmaids!
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In the movie “In Her Shoes” and Maggie picked out a short dress for her sister Rose’s wedding. It was a gorgeous dress, but nothing that I’d have picked out for my own wedding.
 Rose and Simon's Wedding - In Her Shoes The little white dress trend has caught on. I’m seeing a lot of short white wedding dresses and they have a completely different look to them than other wedding dresses.
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If you read my second blog about having wedding dress nerves… you’ll know I was afraid of falling out of love with my dress.
I received so much encouragement for you awesome buds and blossoms and some great advice for long term storage (fabric bags hanging bags, not plastic!).
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Being a self-professed “Budget-Diva” Bride made shopping for my dress, after I found The Dress; a little upsetting. I found it in the first store marked at $1250, well within the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, when I went to try it on for Mom approval- it was marked $1350. So in order to find it at an amazing deal I first emailed a known wedding consignment company here in the Valley, while they were pleased to hear from me again, they didn’t have The Dress. So I turned to the interwebs- I looked at Once Wed’s Used Dresses Recycled Bride and the Weddingbee Classifieds. Unfortunately the best deal I could find was $800+ shipping. Not bad, except that it was shipping from Canada. Back to the Bridal Shops…
 Alyth Bridal Studio After a few not-so wonderful experiences at Bridal Shops that shall remain nameless my FSIL and I were skeptical at best. That is, until, I found the most glowing reviews of a shop out in the suburbs… a shop I’d never heard of, but certainly had a lot of fans…
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As soon I was done with the tears of joy and frenzied calls to friends and family, (and scrutinizing and admiring the heck out of my ring!) it was time to get down to the important part of being engaged. The wedding. And as any bride knows, the most important part of any wedding is what the bride wears. Of course.
Everything else just falls into place, right? Well, its been a few months, and let me tell you, It does NOT set itself up that easily. But the wedding dress is still drastically important, as any girl who has ever thought of her big day can tell you. My wedding is most easily described as a *deep breath* Outdoor, Vintage, Eco, DIY, Casual wedding. Yeah. So my challenge was to find a dress to match all of that. I think it is worth mentioning that by Eco I mean Ecological AND Economical. And oh, do I love a challenge.
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As discussed previously in Pt II, my MOH came to the rescue and sat up on the phone with me whilst I cried out my many frustrations with shopping for a wedding gown. She addressed my three main issues in blunt fashion, so I will do the same for you:
Problem #1: I have an hourglass shape. You would think this would not be a problem, but think again. It means that every single dress in existence looks “okay.” Thus narrowing my options… by nothing.
Problem #2: I didn’t really want the simple gown I kept telling everyone. I wanted something “dramatic” without being covered in beads and flowers.
Problem #3: I really had no inspiration.
So we sat down and tackled all these problems and came up with a portfolio, so to speak, of inspiration. So that, just like before with colors, I don’t mess it up by using the wrong words. This is what we came up with:
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