This isn’t related to my wedding, but I went to an estate sale on Sunday to look for a coffee table. They were selling the woman’s wedding dress for $40 ($20 because it was the last day). It depressed me a little bit. I never really thought of my dress as a keepsake, but I’d like someone to care about it someday - at least enough to leave it in a dusty corner instead of sell it. 
I hadn’t really thought of this until just now - oops? I convinced Kristi to take care of my hair for me. I’ll have to find a place for Chrissy, Emily and my mother. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m not really sure how this will work.
Note to bridesmaids: Kristi and Kalie bought great brown shoes for the wedding. Look for anything in chocolate brown; I’m sure they’ll look fine together that way.
David, Tommy and Dad just now gave me their measurements for their tuxes, so they can finally be ordered! The store keeps telling us they don’t have to order until two weeks beforehand, but that makes me antsy. What if something goes wrong?
We have to bring in one of the bridesmaid dresses in order to compare colors and I’m not sure they have anything that will match exactly. Maybe something a little lighter wouldn’t be bad - I guess I’ll find out on Monday.
This is a horrible phone picture of the roses we plan to use for the bouquets and corsages. Kristi and I picked out the colors while Kalie and Brad hung in there and tried not to look too bored. We settled on a medium blue and a peachish color, with brown ribbon.
We ordered a a lot of the corsages to be made, but we figured we’d put together the bridesmaid flowers ourselves - and maybe use these roses for favors or centerpieces also.
These flowers are made a lot better than I expected. I like that I won’t have to worry about flowers dying in the middle of the day or something. I’m sure I’ll have a million other things to worry about instead!
(Bonus: bins in the background with buds in a bunch of pretty colors.)
All of the Stillwater people (Brad, Ben, Dakota, Josh) are going to be fitted for tuxes on Friday morning at Lillian’s Bridal on Main.
Having another important step finished will be reassuring, but it means that I will have to yell at David and Tommy to go get fitted as soon as possible. If I have to call them every day, I will!
When the bridesmaid dresses were first chosen, we were told that they would take six weeks to come in and as long as we ordered six weeks before the wedding, we would be fine. I ended up going home in March to visit my family for spring break, and while I was there, I went with Christine and Emily so they could get sized at a David’s Bridal in NJ (hell).
Emily went first. I asked about the dress and they brought it out in her size, but a different color. It fit well and we were excited about it, but when we went to order, they said they couldn’t get it in until June. Further, only one size 2 existed in the entire coutry, and it was in Maryland. I called the Maryland store and after about nine years of sitting on hold, they told me they’d sold it already.
After that, we made Emily try on every dress in cornflower blue that would fit her, whether in junior bridesmaids or regular sizes. We drove 45 minutes to the next closest David’s Bridal to go through their selection also. Eventually she decided on a cute dress that doesn’t really match very well, but looks adorable on her.
The next day, I went with Christine to see if they had anything in her size. The only one they had in the correct color was 3 sizes too big, and nothing was available in the entire country in her size. We had to go up a size and order her dress over the phone from Yonkers (with 15$ shipping). It got to my house in OK before I got back from NY.
Now we just have to wait for the other dresses to come in from the OKC David’s Bridal…
David and Brad hung out in the lobby while we went crazy over dress after dress. It was pretty stressful. Thank god we had David there to make unfunny jokes about how we should “call it it’s real name! your brother’s bridal.”
Brad took a day off from work so we could get a list of things done. He hates my lists - he says they are scary. I love them, because when I cross everything off and look at the page again, I feel as if I have actually accomplished something. It is easier to relax that way.
List or no list, we knew we had to find a place to get our tuxes. We’d looked in Quail Springs Mall before, but nothing seemed right. This time, we tried Stillwater.
It wasn’t extremely eventful - it turns out they only rent one decent brown tux, the same one that Ben and Tosha used for their wedding last summer. All of the stores cost about the same price, so we decided to go through Lillian’s Bridal on Main, just a few blocks from our house.
We spoke with the woman there and she said that if we went through her, we wouldn’t have to worry about sizing and ordering until April, so that’s that for now.
The picture was taken from Jim’s Formal Wear.
We went and found dresses in the perfect color - cornflower blue. It took less than 20 minutes for Kristi, Kalie and Tosha to decide that they all wanted to wear the same dress and find one they could agree on.
Here is a picture of the dress, borrowed from David’s Bridal:
