wedding gown.. check!

Yes! i found "THE dress" woopie! I'm so happy. This past weekend was so much fun. I went shopping with my mommy, Auntie Susan (gary's mommie), Uncle Henry (gary's daddy) and gary too. We took the dress straight off the mannequin to try on haha. We all knew when I put it on that this was definitely THE ONE. (trumpets in the background)

But you can't see it till the day of the wedding hehehe! But i can tell you its by Maggie Sottero. Theres really love lace detailing and crystal beading all around the dress and the train. (but not overwhelming, just enough so it fits in to the dress really nicely) I also really love the back as well. *sigh* and the train too!

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From the start I was totally in love with Maggie Sottero's wedding dresses.. but not so in love with the prices. Bleh! I had intended to rent a wedding dress, since i had no idea what to do with it after the wedding, and I heard it was much more economical. However there was an unexpected turn of events! We found out that if we were to rent this particular dress it would be slightly complicated, because they never cut rental dresses when altering, they said altering the dress shorter to accommodate for my height would look a bit funny due to the sheer organza top layer and they would have to end up sewing it in under the gown, instead of having two nice flowy layers. But if I bought it, they could just chop up the dress, and it would be fine. =) haha

SO.. after some (super) intense bargining and chopping about $400 off the sticker price, buying the dress turned out to be only $250 more than renting it. ("cash" only of course) So we bought it!! I was so happy to have gotten such an awesome deal for a Maggie dress. woot! Go awesome mom bargaining skills! oh.. AND we were able to get a super sweet deal for all the bridesmaid dresses too.

All in all a totally awesome succesful weekend.