One of the most important things of a wedding is of course the bridesmaid dresses. One of the most important things for me is that my bridesmaids look amazing. I always envisioned some Sex and the City kind of flair to the whole bridesmaid attire, but then found that could only work if David Tutera took over my wedding OR I was on the set of Sex and the City.
Just when I thought I found their dress, monkey wrench occurred. I hated the dress my MOH tried on. Yes! Hated it. It just wasn’t flattering to her little figure. So the search continued…..Searching and searching and comparing. I must have sent like 30 emails to my poor MOH. What do you think about this? What about that? What if you do this? What if the girls wear this and you wear that? No, no. no.
On top of my 30+ emails to my MOH, I have to say, I have the most amazing group of girls. I have managed to drag two of my bridesmaids AGAIN to the store and try on dresses. No… Hate it. Let me take a picture. Ugh, take it off…. Hmmmm, I can work with that, that’s a possibility. Let me take another picture. Put on your heels, let me see how it looks with the shoes, walk in the dress, let me see how it flows. Finally, narrowing it down to 2 dresses. This is not including, me asking one of them to visit this store RK Bridal in NYC. Since she was already going to be down there, I thought, HEY, why not try these 3 dresses down there (narrowed down from like 7-10). I sent her fully equipped with the style number, store information, and list of questions to ask.
What happens you say? Well, she gets to the store, calls me, Zu, this place is mayhem. There are like 500+ brides and bridesmaids running around this HUGE store ready to try on dresses and on top of that, there was a wait for the poor dressing rooms. I felt horrible, but the selfish part of me was like, you still have to do it.. lol.. So to make matters even worse or funnier. Big sign in the stores, no pictures allowed. Well how am I going to see what the dresses look like. Well… She dragged her son into the dressing room with her to take pics. After all of that, I hated 2 of the dresses, loved one, but now the belt didn’t come in the colors I liked. So after all of that work from my poor bridesmaid, whom I LOVE LOVE LOVE, it came down to 1 dress from her selection.
Its middle of May, I really need to finally make a decision, so I decided to sleep on it, look through all the pictures of my beautiful girls in the dresses they modeled for me before making my own decision. This past weekend was perfect for me to do that. I did get one AWESOME and FUNNY word of advice. One of my bridesmaid mom’s, who will remain anonymous and whom I adore, pulls me over and says, what’s going on with the dresses. I said, I need to make the final decision, will do it this weekend and let everyone know on Monday. She asks, what’s your delay? I recap everything to her and explain that once I see the last 3 dresses, I will be able to have a better feel for what I want, to which she says “it’s your wedding, make the decision”. I know I know – Will do it after this weekend.
Well a couple of hours into the night and a few cosmos later, this whole dress situation is still on her mind and her mom says, look Zu, you need to decide on these dresses.. and the most classic, hilarious line I will NEVER forget is: “You need to get these little bytches in line before they wear Dungarees to your wedding”.
Let’s just say “mom”.. I did get my “bytches” in line. Dress has been selected, one already purchased and I’m sooooo happy with the selection. I can’t wait to see my gorgeous besties as they walk down the aisle.
