bridesmaid duties

[mellybrelly]

Yesterday after work I met Katrina and we went to three stores, trying on bridesmaid dresses. There is no selection in this city. I had one dress on, and Katrina said "after the wedding you could shorten it and wear it again!"

We went for dinner at Fluid again. I had the chicken and artichoke pasta.. had sun-dried tomatoes and fresh tomatoes.. was okay. I liked my pasta better last time, but last time it was a zillion calories with a cream sauce and bacon and chicken and good stuff like that. This was a healthier choice, but just not as tasty ;)

After dinner, off to the theater to see 27 Dresses. We almost died when they laughed about how brides always say that you can shorten the dress and wear it again... cause you'll never wear the dress again... Katrina laughed so hard and told me to smack her if she said it again!



Today I went to Campbell River with her, about an hour or so away from here. We went to church first and then met our friend Layla to go look at more bridesmaid dresses. We found one that I loved and she loved on me, but it was black and they couldn't order it in another colour. The good thing is that we realized I have almost the exact dress in an eggplant kind of colour and Kat might want to go with that. I'm going to go to Nanaimo as well (about an hour and a half away, on an icy day) to look at some more.

After giving up on the bridal shop, we went to a Wedding Fair. Bridal fashion show.. booths of flowers and food and chocolate fountains and lingerie and personal trainers and candles and various other weddingish things. Was fun but long.

Had a few twinging moments of wondering if I would ever get married. Sometimes wish I was 20 again and young enough to just marry blindly, not worrying about what my future held. (don't be offended if you were 20 when you married, please, I just know I would be way less cautious than I am now)

I felt a bit car sick on the ride home and my stomach is still a bit funny.

Even though trying to find dresses is a bit stressful, I think this is going to be a lot of fun.

Comments

[popchex.livejournal.com]

When I was a bridesmaid, I was...14? or so. My cousin had cotton blend dresses made for us because it was in Chicago in the middle of July. haha I actually used the dress again! I wore it for a school dance. I can't see that happening as an adult though. :P

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I swear they make bridesmaid dresses fairly badly, so the bride looks a billion times better than the bridesmaids. The last bridesmaid dress I wore is waaaay too huge for me, I need to take it to a consignment store or something. It's a cool dress, just too big. (not that I'm complaining)

The tough thing is that all of us are different sizes. I'm the curviest, and shortest. Layla is curvy, but the nice kind.. big boobs and big booty and a very flat stomach (bitch!!).. Meredith is probably going to be pretty pregnant for the ceremony and Liz is extremely slim and we will all hate her.

[popchex.livejournal.com]

You know how I feel about weddings, but I honestly think that if you TRULY want everyone to look and feel good in your wedding, you don't make them wear the same dress. Pick a colour and let them go pick dresses that fit them. You know?

Then again I didn't even get out of dramas with that. I told everyone not to dress up for our wedding, and my brother wore a suit, no tie. Elaina wore a lovely sweater and black pants (that actually passes for a long skirt in the pictures), but mom and my friend Wendy wore fancy dresses - my aunt and cousin wore skirts. E was like WTF?! I'm like THEY DO NOT LISTEN! My uncle was telling everyone they had to wear suits to the dinner too. I was like NO! I don't care what you wear just don't wear jeans and a t-shirt, shit. haha

It was the middle of freakin' February, I wasn't about to ask people to dress up, you know? I get my mom though, but everyone else.... -.-

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

That's what we are doing, picking a colour and going from there. We sort of want some things to be the same though.. same length mainly. I will likely have wide straps because I want to wear a good bra for the beasts. Liz will likely do strapless. Layla wants a halter dress and Meredith will need straps too, but her dress will probably be different than mine.

I'm actually (relieved and) suprised that Katrina isn't being more anal about what kind of dresses we wear, but she knows we all have very different bodies from each other, and she wants us all to just look and feel great.

[popchex.livejournal.com]

That is awesome - especially coming from her. lol :D

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Totally. She is trying to do this all as easy going as possible.

[in-frequency.livejournal.com]

if it's got artichokes in it i'll eat it and smile contentedly. sigh, artichokes, i love you so.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I like them too. I really like them in quesadillas.. I just think this pasta needed a better sauce. The menu online says it was supposed to be a garlic rose sauce, but it was just an olive oil drizzle..

I need to remember to buy some.

[in-frequency.livejournal.com]

ah, key word 'rose' means delicate or subtle or not there at all.

sounds great in print tho, i'd order it.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

well.. it was only olive oil. They changed the menu. It said olive oil on the new menu.. just the online one says garlic rose sauce.

It was still pretty tasty, but not sure I'd order it a second time. I could have made that at home very easily.

[in-frequency.livejournal.com]

i used to make that all the time. olive oil and garlic, mmm.

but yeah, you don't go out for that.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

exactly.

I want something I'd never be able to make as well as the chef!

[alena-griffiths.livejournal.com]

There's lots of dress stores in Victoria! ;)

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

well.. she just phoned and said that she loves the dress I already own, and it's exactly the style we were going for, and it's a good fit on me, (and free for me!!) and she loves the colour and now her wedding colour is eggplant!

We'll probably be in Victoria to pick up her dress though, so maybe we'll meet up!!

[vapourtrail.livejournal.com]

I once had to wear a bright red MERMAID style off the shoulder dress with a *massive* bow on the ass. OMG, it was HORRIBLE.

Chocolate fountains are all the rage but they completely gross me out. All I can think of when I see them are the double-dipping episode from Seinfeld:



AND they cost something crazy like $8.00 per person. I'd rather spend the money on alcohol!

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Oh.. that is horrible. Horrible. I've been fairly lucky with my dresses so far, but I'm going to work my ass off till September because I want to look HOT.

I'm not sure about the cost here.. *back* I just looked at the chocolate shop here in town, and it's about $345 for the rental, which includes their amazing belgium chocolate. I don't think I'd bother with one, but I don't care if she gets one ;)

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

hah.. the clip didn't show up in my email comment!! I love Seinfeld.

I hope most people have common sense and don't double dip. Whenever I've seen the fountains, there are usually slices of fruit on skewers to dip.

[tarahsay.livejournal.com]

What church were you at? Haha, I switched it up and went to CFL today rather than the Baptist church, and my oh my it is one THOUSAND times better. haha.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

oh whoops! LOL I just answered this in a different comment, not knowing you had asked. :P

I was at the Baptist, but we picked up my friend at the Pentecostal.

[tanyajc.livejournal.com]

I picked out the same dress for two of my bridesmaids, they didn't seem to have a problem with that, I let them select from a lot of dresses. I should have made them get different dresses from the same designer if I had really thought about it. My Maid of Honor had a different dress and color. If you're looking to get a good chocolate fountain, rather than renting one, we bought ours at Costco, its fairly big and we use it for other occasions.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I'll let her know about the fountain. It's so easy with Hot Chocolates though, I think she'll just go with that.

If your bridesmaids have similar body shapes, then the same dress would probably work fine. We are all very different from each other, so thankfully she wanted dresses that would look good on all our body types.

[heywood417.livejournal.com]

I want to go see that movie so bad! I need to get some more local girlfriends. :/

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

It was cute, and yeah, girlfriends are helpful for seeing those kinds of movies. Plus it's just nice to be around girls sometimes!!