the DRESS

My goal for this post is to remember everything I possibly can about the wedding...so here we go.

Firstly I must add that the sunday of my wedding-week came and I was just relaxing at my house waiting for my grandma and mom to come over and visit me. They get there and I decided to try on my dress. Now, let me remind you that I took my bridal portraits a few months before the wedding and got my dress a little dirty so I took it to the dry cleaners. Well I hadn't tried to dress on since getting it back from the cleaners because I thought all would be well... NOT SO MUCH! I tried it on for my mom and my grandma and my blatantly honest mom said it's a lot tighter than it was, which was obvious to me because I could feel a fat roll in my backside by the zipper. So we said well maybe I should just keep it on and a few minutes later it seemed a LIIITTTTLEEE less snug. (all the while i was having major issues breathing in the thing) So my mom says well maybe you should stretch...GREAT IDEA? (No BAD BAD idea) So I stretched and started getting a little more air in my lungs and then..dun dun dun.. i tried to touch my toes and so i started thrusting towards the ground with my arms a few times. and then IT HAPPEND.. we heard a wrrriiippp (fabric breaking, popping, shredding) the only thing i could think to do was say NO, NO, NO that didn't just happen.. and LAUGH (and then freak out) my mom and grandma are on the back sides of me and I hear some foul words and then my grandma said, "ohhhh NOOOOOOOO" and then trying to cover up the dreadful situation say, "ohhh NOOOOOO it's NOT THAT BAD!!" We took the dress off and the entire seam had wripped right down the zipper. At this point I started counting the days.. Monday-1, Tuesday-2, Wednesday-3, Thursday-4, FRIDAY-5... 5 days until I'm supposed to get married in this dress. So we made some emergency calls and this lady that we knew was suppose to fix it and let a little out. Took it to her on monday and she said she'd have it to me by wednesday. Thursday came around and I FINALLY got the dress and decided to try it on. Well I looked at it for a few hours and ignored it because I DREADED the dress at this point. Then we took showers (as we were getting atleast 15 people ready for the rehearsal at one house... and I thought, i'm feeling skinnier let's try it now. So we stuffed my fat-behind into the dress and DUN DUN DUN... (situation- I had my cousin holding my boobs together, jomarie was holding my back fat together, my mom was trying to zip the dress, i'm not breathing- i was thinking skinny and some how trying to metamorphasize my body into the shape it needed to be to fit in the dress) so back to the story... my mom can't get the zipper up.. we got the dress back from the lady who was 'supposed' to fix the dress and there was still a LARGE hole in the seam of my zipper. I FREAKED out... and I mean I freaked..started counting days again.. Friday-less than 24 hours away... LESS THAN A DAY AWAY AND THAT DRESS NEEDED TO FIT ME! Thank the Lord that a family member from florida had arrived less than thirty minutes before and was able to stitch the dress. She gave it a good look..told me what I needed and Jomarie and I headed to Target less than an hour before we were supposed to be at the rehearsal dinner. The trip should have taken 3o minutes round trip..we made it to the target and back to the beach house in 16 minutes!! So my family member Eva stitched the dress while we were at the rehearsal and at dinner she told me she had double stiched the seams and that it was FIXED!!! I tried it on at like 1130 that night because she suggested i wear it for 30 minutes...still very very tight but atleast it zippered. Little by little the dress was getting more bearable to wear..so I got out of the dress after my 30 minutes were up and put it away and prayed for the best for the next day. The wedding day came and I was in the men's bathroon with Kristen while my uncle was getting ready and men were walking in left and right... all i could think about was the dress. kristen pulled the dress up and I kept asking her, " is it gonna fit? please tell me it's going to fit" she was sooo reassuring.. she kept saying don't worry it's going to fit. Finally we got to the zipper and i held my breath and she said OH YEA this is gonna fit NO PROBLEM! After all of that hassle the dress fit to a tee!! And that is the story of my wedding dress!

Disclaimer** I didn't do a diet so I did gain weight before the wedding but the dress didn't fit because of the weight I gained/or didn't gain.. it didn't fit because IT SHRUNK at the dry cleaners. All of the shrinkage was in my bust area and around my rib cage... NOTE- to everyone getting married..do not take your dress to the dry cleaners before the wedding and if you do please go on a serious diet or try it on like 5 times a day before the wedding!**

My wedding dress was perfect and the BEST dress I could have imagined. I did so many alterations to it but it was MY perfect dress!

Enjoy!! Another posting will be coming soon!