Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
What do you do when...?
So I know I said that my dress was perfect but after some considerations and some comparing of the picture of my dress with the sample on the website I started to have some doubts. Did I mention this was at 11:30 the other night? I tried to go to bed but that wasn't happening because I just kept working myself into a state of panic that my dress wasn't perfect.
I got up in the morning, immediately called mom and asked her to make the same comparison. Turns out I wasn't crazy and my dress just wasn't the same as the one I wanted. So at this point I was feeling pretty shitty. I spent the next few hours circling between crying my eyes out and just staring at the wall. Around 2pm Heather called and we talked and she really made me feel better and at that point I called the seamstress. She was very sweet and said she could see me later that evening. I figured out a way to get my dress from Kristy and then waited and waited for Ian to get home.
Ian walked in the door and he immediately could tell that something was up and part of me wanted more than anything to tell him exactly what was wrong. Yet there is still a very large part of me that wants the whole dress surprise thing. So I managed to tell him without actually telling him the specifics and he insisted on driving me to my appointment. After coming up with a plan to hide the dress with a really big blanket and a promise from Ian not to look off we went. We picked up the dress from Austen (Kristy's man) and zoomed off towards the seamstresses house.
I immediately felt at ease with my seamstress, she's lovely! She's retired "sort of" (her words not mine) and works out of her home. She also clearly knows a LOT about dresses. So I told her what the problem was and she said - lets get you into this dress. She I put it on and she immediately went to work with the pins fixing the problems and making sure that I would get the dress that I wanted.
We came up with a couple ideas and in the end I felt a lot better. She's hanging onto the dress to do the alterations and said that she would be in touch in the new year for fitting two. There is going to be a couple of phases of the alterations because of the number of things that need to be done. BUT that being said my dress will be perfect and it's all good thanks to the lovely Else!!!
I got up in the morning, immediately called mom and asked her to make the same comparison. Turns out I wasn't crazy and my dress just wasn't the same as the one I wanted. So at this point I was feeling pretty shitty. I spent the next few hours circling between crying my eyes out and just staring at the wall. Around 2pm Heather called and we talked and she really made me feel better and at that point I called the seamstress. She was very sweet and said she could see me later that evening. I figured out a way to get my dress from Kristy and then waited and waited for Ian to get home.
Ian walked in the door and he immediately could tell that something was up and part of me wanted more than anything to tell him exactly what was wrong. Yet there is still a very large part of me that wants the whole dress surprise thing. So I managed to tell him without actually telling him the specifics and he insisted on driving me to my appointment. After coming up with a plan to hide the dress with a really big blanket and a promise from Ian not to look off we went. We picked up the dress from Austen (Kristy's man) and zoomed off towards the seamstresses house.
I immediately felt at ease with my seamstress, she's lovely! She's retired "sort of" (her words not mine) and works out of her home. She also clearly knows a LOT about dresses. So I told her what the problem was and she said - lets get you into this dress. She I put it on and she immediately went to work with the pins fixing the problems and making sure that I would get the dress that I wanted.
We came up with a couple ideas and in the end I felt a lot better. She's hanging onto the dress to do the alterations and said that she would be in touch in the new year for fitting two. There is going to be a couple of phases of the alterations because of the number of things that need to be done. BUT that being said my dress will be perfect and it's all good thanks to the lovely Else!!!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
I can finally relax!
I have been anxious about my dress since the day that I ordered it. I was convinced that they would order the wrong one, that it wouldn't fit and continually came up with a myriad of other problems that could go wrong with the dress. I'm pretty sure that my insentient phone calls to the store where I bought it from bordered on harassment.
Last Thursday I got the phone call that I have been anxiously awaiting, my dress was in and I could go pick it up whenever I wanted. My Mom and Dad had promised to make the trip over for my fitting so last night they caught the 5pm and it was just a matter of hours before I could go and get it.
The store opened today at 11:30am and the plan was to go pretty much the minute they opened. Last night I went to bed relatively early to make sure that I was fresh and looking nice for the 1st pictures of me in my wedding dress but sadly an early night was not in the cards. I felt like a 5 year old on Christmas Eve, every time I closed my eyes I could picture my dress, my veil.... everything! I gave up on sleep this morning around 8, and attempted to study until Mom and Dad came to pick me up.
Around 11, my phone rang and I sprang into action getting ready. I grabbed my camera and was out the door. We arrived at the Bridal shop which at this point was full of grads trying on dresses for their prom and I was escorted into a room and there it was. Perfect.
I slipped into my bustier and shoes and then my dress. The girl laced me up and then out I walked. Then the veil was added and it was perfect, just perfect. I felt so special, I knew I had made the right choice. A few pictures later I got was dragged out of the dress and got to take it home! Well actually it's currently hanging in my good friends Kristy's closet so a certain fiance isn't tempted to see it. There are a few little alterations needed but all in all it's pretty darn perfect! Anyone who would like an emailed copy of the pic please let me know!
Last Thursday I got the phone call that I have been anxiously awaiting, my dress was in and I could go pick it up whenever I wanted. My Mom and Dad had promised to make the trip over for my fitting so last night they caught the 5pm and it was just a matter of hours before I could go and get it.
The store opened today at 11:30am and the plan was to go pretty much the minute they opened. Last night I went to bed relatively early to make sure that I was fresh and looking nice for the 1st pictures of me in my wedding dress but sadly an early night was not in the cards. I felt like a 5 year old on Christmas Eve, every time I closed my eyes I could picture my dress, my veil.... everything! I gave up on sleep this morning around 8, and attempted to study until Mom and Dad came to pick me up.
Around 11, my phone rang and I sprang into action getting ready. I grabbed my camera and was out the door. We arrived at the Bridal shop which at this point was full of grads trying on dresses for their prom and I was escorted into a room and there it was. Perfect.
I slipped into my bustier and shoes and then my dress. The girl laced me up and then out I walked. Then the veil was added and it was perfect, just perfect. I felt so special, I knew I had made the right choice. A few pictures later I got was dragged out of the dress and got to take it home! Well actually it's currently hanging in my good friends Kristy's closet so a certain fiance isn't tempted to see it. There are a few little alterations needed but all in all it's pretty darn perfect! Anyone who would like an emailed copy of the pic please let me know!
Monday, December 6, 2010
mmmmm.... cake!
Food for our wedding has been a bit of stumbling point because of both of our diets and fairly restrictive. I can't eat wheat and Ian can't eat a plethora of things. We were very lucky to find a fantastic caterer but I still really wanted to have wedding cake. It's CAKE! Who doesn't love cake?
About a year ago Ian found this wonderful person on craigslist I believe... I could be wrong but Ian's not home to correct me. She creates recipes for people who can't eat food. Last year she created a couple bread recipes for Ian that have proved to be very useful so we thought that hopefully she could do something for us in the way of a cake.
This past Monday we went over to her place for our first tasting and I figured that we would have one choice and take it or leave it. Boy was I wrong. We had three different choices, two vanilla and one chocolate, all fantastic. Ian and I really regretted having such a big dinner before we went.
We hummed and hawed and sampled and decided on one of the vanilla cakes. Janice said that she wanted to tweak the recipe a bit and would let us know soon what the final verdict was. We also asked her to find an Ian friendly way of doing icing. It's tough when corn, dairy and most other things that go into icing are off limits.
It was very reassuring to find out that not only will we get cake, but it's going to be SO YUMMY!!!
Next step: someone to sign the papers so we can make this whole thing legal!
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