Wedding Dress Purchased!

Started out the day going garage saling with Randy.  Very slim pickings despite the lovely weather.  Randy did manage to get a whole block of really nice quality knives for $5.  So not a total loss.

Christa and I had a Noon appointment at David's Bridal.  She was just going to get an idea of what she wanted.  We had planned to go to my girl Frances at Frances Boutique in Wilmington http://www.yelp.com/biz/frances-boutique-wilmington  after we figured out what she actually wanted.  I started out at her house and we looked at dresses on line and called the place we are thinking of using for catering www.stonefiregrill.com  We are pretty excited about the choices we have there.  Also, looking at party rental sites since Christa is adamant about having round tables instead of rectangles. And went over the rough draft guest list.

Not a favorite :-(

Didn't like it at all!

We stopped at Chic-fil-a to get Nuggets and soup since by blood sugar was so low and proceeded to our appointment.  The girl that helped us was named Veronica.  She was soooo cute. She was maybe 5 foot even.  I thought she was 14 when I first saw her.  Christa tried on about 10 dresses.  She really liked the first one, lacy and elegant and the third one, asymmetrical and satin, lace up back.  She tried on a couple of short dresses, but they just didn't look enough like a wedding.  Then she tried on the first dress in her correct size.  She liked it even more.  But not enough to buy it.  Then she had noticed one at the front of the store.  It was her size (6) and it was on SALE!  She tried it on with the veil she fell in love with earlier.  Everyone (about 35 people) turned and looked at her when she came out and drew in a collective sigh.  They continued to stare at her and smile.  She was just LOVELY.  It was her dress!  Then Veronica told her the sale price and Christa said, "SOLD!"  She is thinking about getting a lace up back put in instead of a zipper and of course, it needs to be shortened a little bit and have the bustle put in.  All that will be done by Frances.

The dress is hanging in the closet in my Mom's room so there is no peeking, LOL.

Between this one and the one below.   Except it wasn't!

When I got home, my wonderful husband had removed the old film from my window.  Unfortunately, he missed seeing a hole in the ground and twisted his ankle fairly badly.  So he spent the afternoon and evening icing.  We both have pretty bad colds too.  Which wasn't helped by my lovely daughter's perfume that aggravated my allergies, lol.  We took a nice nap for about an hour and a half after Christa went to work.

Oh yeah, I got to meet her new kitty, Madeline.  Very cute.  She loved sniffing me, but didn't want me to hold her.  She was too busy playing.

She did like the pin enough to keep it for the dress she bought.

There is also a crisis with the venue.  Neither of the couple bothered to read the contract they were signing and didn't see there there were no glass dinnerware allowed at the venue.  They don't want to use paper products and Trey currently feels that it's a deal breaker.  I tried to point out that there are plastic dinnerware that looks just like china.  We'll see.  Christa told him if he wants to find another venue, she's fine with it.  But she just can't face looking again.

We'll see what tomorrow brings.  My sisters are coming to visit Mom and I have a date with a pig.  A whole roasted-in-the-ground pig at Olivia and Josh's!