When I was searching for a dress back in the summer of last year, I had a vision of what kind of dress I’d pick.  As I tried dresses on, none of them really felt right or gave me the feeling that brides on TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress! get.  I guess that feeling just isn’t “me”.

Fast forward to October, I decided to go to Alfred Angelo’s in Huntington Beach.  Each dress I put on was hideous on me… maybe, just maybe wedding dresses just don’t work on me.  Lori, my bridal consultant, brought a dress into the fitting room.  I looked it as she handed to me.  In my head, I just thought “wow, that’s ugly!”  I put it on anyways.  There weren’t any mirrors in the fitting rooms, so I really didn’t know how awful this dress really looks on me.  But it was just ugly.  As I walked out, my mom’s face changed.  “It can’t be the dress!”, I thought to myself.  It just can’t be… it’s ugly… until I saw myself in the mirror.

Of course, the indecisive person that I am, I walked out of the store empty handed.  I just wasn’t sure if it is “the one”.  I went to another bridal shop and tried on dresses and thought I found “the one” there.  I made a come back visit and thought I’d bring in another eye, Natasha, my MOH.  We went to Alfred Angelo’s first and I didn’t tell her which dress everyone seemed to like.  I tried on other dresses first, one of which I really liked but wasn’t “me”.  I came out with the “ugly dress” and Natasha had tears in her eyes.  I knew then that it had to be the one.  My mom’s face changed and my best friend had tears in her eyes.  They both can’t be wrong.  I never went to the other shop to try on any more dresses.  My search was over.

As a prize for surviving a painful (yes it was!) wisdom teeth extraction, I bought my dress in November.  Exactly four months later, I was able to pick up my dress today.  It was an exciting feeling.  It’s becoming so real and happening so fast.  I do feel accomplished.