My Alfred Angelo Dress
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.
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