... to the dress!

I'm starting to come down from the buzz of sheer excitement from finding my dress, but I still get happy squirmy feelings every time I think about it. But there's only so much I can show you of the real thing, because of this:

He may look like an innocent ASU fan...

But he's definitely sneaky. See the mischief lurking in those eyes... there's so much of it, it cannot be contained.


Who, me?

... yeah, he's definitely up to no good. If pictures of me in the dress I'm actually going to wear end up anywhere on the internet, he's going to sneak around and find them. But what I can show you are the dresses that were the runners up.

This was the first one I tried on. I liked it, but since it was the first, I was kind of in shock of "OMG I'M IN A WEDDING DRESS" and not able to articulate what, specifically, I liked and didn't like about it.

When I put the second one on, I knew from the second I saw my Mom's face and turned to see myself in the mirror that it would take a dress made of hundred dollar bills to one-up it. That's the one I can't show you. But I can show you the expression on my face while I was in it:

(Yep. This is the one. Ridiculously happy grinning ensues for half an hour... even when I get to put it on again at the end to try on shoes and look at it in full ensemble one last time.)

The third one was one Mom wanted me to try, as well as a favorite on the poll I posted on Weddingbee. It is a cool dress, just not really my style. It was fun to try it on, though!

The fourth one I tried was similar in many ways to the winner. This one was one I'd been really keen to see in person in the ivory color because I'd heard that the flowers on the bodice had a really lovely pinkish-and-champagne tint to them, and they were, indeed, gorgeous. I think if the one that was the winner hadn't existed, this one would have been my choice. Mom was surprised at how much better it looked on me than she thought it would! (Please ignore my crazy expression... dunno what I was doing there...). Some of the others did a lot more to define my waist, which I liked, and this one did something a little weird with my chest/above-the-boobs flab that the others didn't do quite as much. But I loved the flowy-ness and simplicity of it.

Really, I was amazed at how much better I looked than I thought I would. Dunno what this says about my psyche, but it sure made me happy.

So, there you have it... well, not really. You have all the ones except it, but since I have an internet creeper for a fiance, that's all you can have.... for now.