HUGE UPDATE!!

(Not THE DRESS of course, but a pretty one...I AM A BRIDE!!)

Life is going FABULOUSLY!! (Much of that do to with wedding stuff coming together!)

Last post I mentioned that I was going on my second dress shopping trip...well guess what folks...

I FOUND MY DRESS!!!

It was complete fate! My mom, sister, bridesmaids, flower girl, and I took a road trip down to Caryn's Bridal in Farmville, where my sister had bought her wedding dress. We had a great lunch at Macado's before our appointment (I got a delicious buffalo chicken wrap...yummm). Then we headed to Caryn's and met with my consultant, who just happened to be the same consultant that had helped my sister! (And remembered her!) So I gave her the list of dresses I had found on their website that I liked and she went to pull the dresses. While she was doing that I began to look at the dresses on the racks around me. I found a rack that was clearly meant to be "destination" wedding gowns, which was what I had in mind for my beach wedding. Low and behold, the first dress on the rack was a dress I had seen at Bridal Impressions in Harrisonburg and liked, but I didn't have anyone with me so I didn't try it on. (Ironically I had an appointment the next day at Bridal Impressions specifically to try that dress on so I could show my sister/matron of honor). I tried on several other dresses and none of them "Wow!"ed me. Then I put that dress on and I just felt so beautiful, bridal, and comfortable. It was everything I was looking for. Unique and different but flowy and beach. I was a goddess. Because I still wasn't sure if it was the dress or not I tried on a dress my consultant had picked out. It was a ball gown with a corset back and ruffles at the bottom. It fit me like a glove and I really did look good it in. I just didn't know how to feel about it. It was sooo different from my original vision I couldn't even handle it. I just stood in it for 10 minutes just staring in the mirror deciding how I felt about it. My sister and bridesmaids suggested I walk from one end of the stage to the other wearing that dress and look at myself in the mirror. I did and I liked what I saw, but I didn't love it. So I put the other dress that I felt like a goddess in and they suggested I do the same thing. I started walking and I looked at myself in the mirror. Suddenly I had a vision, I was walking in the sand towards Lorenzo. There he was, looking at me with the biggest smile on his face and tears in his eyes. He was beaming at me, glowing in that dress. In that moment I knew, it was the one. I broke into tears right there on the stage in my goddess dress. It was perfect, exactly what I wanted, totally ME. And believe it or not the dress was $250 cheaper at Caryn's than at Bridal Impressions. Talk about fate. It was the perfect dress for the perfect price and I had everyone I needed with me when I found it. Even now weeks later I can't wait to put my dress on and walk towards Lorenzo, the love of my life.