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[16 Aug 2008|07:29am] |
Wedding plans are in full swing. The family has been invited, we are only waiting on a couple of "maybe's" to give their final answer.
I'm trying to make this as cost effecient and stress reduced as possible. Most of my family have stepped up to take over the meal planning. I keep drawing the line at decorations, though. I'm not into this stuff:
And neither is DaMan. I figure tablecloths in a fall pattern will do nicely. But I'm getting outvoted on it. Though, I'm not going to pout. Family members are wanting to do stuff, and they aren't asking me to cough up money to do it, well, I can't complain, can I? But no going overboard!! I agreed to a floral centerpiece for table. My best friend has also offered to get me a bouquet. That was really sweet of her. But then, being my best friend, and needing to give me shit (because that's what best friends do) she proceeded to tell me that she would make the bouquet out of toilet paper, so when the ceremony comes, and I start my usual water works, I'll have nose blowing material handy. Bitch. I love her to pieces. :D
I do have a cool story regarding my dress. I saw it online, but it was out of stock in anything resembling my size (which is much smaller than I'd previously thought, which is weird, but apprecaited). I found a dress, very similar, same style, but different colors, and would have been happy with it, but something kept me from buying it right away. I made plans to out looking for dresses (today, actually...I haven't done a mall-crawl in almost a year) with my friend, but I kept going back to the first dress. A couple of days ago, I looked at the dress again, and found that there was one in my size listed on the size. They must have had a return! I tried all day to buy it, but it wouldn't go into the shopping cart, so I assumed that someone got there before me and bought it, and the site hadn't updated. But I figured if it happened once, it might happen again. So yesterday I cruised in there first thing in the morning, and VIOLA! There was another listing in a size that is one smaller than I feel comfortable wearing.
OK I know that sounds odd, but a actually do fit into that size. It's just that I've been a fat person for so long, that I'm used to buying "baggy," I have just always felt more comfortable in looser fitting clothes. But as I've lost weight, I've found that I'm able to fit into stuff that's 2 to 3 sizes smaller than I would think would be OK. It's an odd feeling, not to consider myself grossly overweight anymore. But I digress.
So I tried to snap up the dress, and apparently I got it! it went into the shopping cart, I paid for it, and it said it went through. Then i started stalking the order status page - waiting for it to tell me it was all a mistake, and they didn't really the dress in that size, or put it on back order or something. about every other time I checked that webpage, it would tell me I had no open orders. What does that mean??? I tried to be cool about it, I mean the other half of the time it was telling me that the order was being processed. I figured I could give it until Monday before I blew my stack.
When I got up early this morning there was an email from the company. My dress shipped last night!! WHOO HOO! And I upgraded to expedited shipping, so I should have it Monday or Tuesday. *TAP DANCE*
And here it is...It's so pretty, and very non-wedding-ish. But I love it all the same:
The website won't allow the larger picture of the dress to be linked, so if you want to see it in all it's glory, this is the URL: http://www.lanebryant.com/pagebuilder/lane_bryant_product_page?item=1686187&pagesize=3.
If you look at the "if you like this, you might also like this" on the right, that was my number 2 choice. It's very nice, but I'm glad I got my favorite choice.
Wow, for someone that was trying to be low-key about this whole wedding thing, I'm sounding all girly and shit.
Someone needs to remind me to tell my Starbucks-rant & rave story next.
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