THE MOMENTS YOU NEVER FORGET

There are some moments you never forget. There's holding your baby in your arms for the first time. Letting her ride the bus to school for the first time, and following behind the bus in your car. There's sending her off to college, then watching her load a rental truck to move across the country. And then there is seeing her find the perfect wedding dress, knowing that she has also found the perfect guy -- the one who finally gets her, and realizes just what a unique gem she is.

 

The wedding is still a year away, and it's a bit early to be shopping for dresses, but when Unbridaled has their annual sample sale, it's an opportunity not to be missed! I mean, how often to you get the chance to snag a $1,700 dress for just $200?!!

Her friend Joelle came along to help. She was very excited!

This is going to be a very casual wedding, at a very casual venue -- sort of a weekend-long slumber party where everyone in the wedding party can stay on-site and enjoy sitting around the fire pit down by the river together.  She and Nate met swing-dancing, and Nate is a DJ in his spare time, so there will be lots of music and lots of dancing. The venue has a beautiful outdoor space overlooking the river, but also a nice indoor space in case the weather turns bad, and a great little bar they can all adjourn to after the wedding, which reminded them of an old speakeasy. So, they decided their wedding would have a "Speakeasy" theme!

Lex was hoping to find a tea-length (mid-calf) dress that would be easy to dance in, with a vintage feel, but there were very few to choose from, and only one that she liked.

Unfortunately, it had those very rigid Madonna-esque cups that stuck out a couple of inches beyond my daughter's not-exactly-flat chest, and we saw no way to fix that.

We did, however, figure out that there were many full-length dresses that could be shortened easily enough, so we expanded our parameters.

I'm not going to tell you which one she chose, or if it's even among these pictures, as I think it should be a surprise. However, we all knew it was "the one" when we saw it, and the look on her face when she turned towards the mirror? Well, I get choked up every time I think about it.

It was a very good day.