Say Yes To The Dress

I can not stop watching "Say Yes to the Dress" on Netflix. It's ridiculous and makes me so grateful that I never had to go through the horror of dress shopping for my own wedding. The whole thing is unreal. These woman bring an entourage to sit for hours so they can parade out in sometimes hundreds of different dresses. While I'll admit that there have been a few dresses I've liked the majority are outlandishly ridiculous. They almost always go over budget, sometimes agreeing to pay over $10,000 dollars on a dress that they originally capped at $2,500. Half of them have family members telling their skinny selves that their butt is too big for the dress that they came out crying in because they loved it so much. It's awful! Yet I can't stop watching. Seriously, I've been marathon watching it for weeks now and I am not going to stop until I've seen every episode.

I was really lucky. I found my dress on a website called e-crater. It was a perfect vintage 1960's all lace dress and I knew from the moment I saw it that it was exactly what I wanted. The dress had no size on it, it was just a picture but I didn't care something was pushing me to buy it. I consulted my sister, Lorenna, and my mom and then took the plunge and ordered it. It was $79.00 including shipping. I had it delivered to my Mom's house and it arrived on the same day I was going to Long Island to visit her. I tried it on and it was perfect. This dress that I knew no details about needed no alterations and was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.

The only time I stepped foot into a bridal store was when I went with my mom to buy my slip. We went to the ultimate of Long Island bridal shops "David's Bridal" and It was amazing. By amazing I mean absolutely absurd. Kind of like this show. My slip ended up costing more than my dress and in the parking lot on the way back to the car my mom turned to me, grabbed my arm and goes "Thank you for never putting me through that." No prob ma, I could have never gone through it myself!