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!!!