Can I Just Get Three?

Well, I was officially confused with dress prospects, so it was time to actually try a few on. Some were good, some were bad, and some were just, well ugly.  Look and laugh with me.  We quickly realized that since I'm super short waisted, I needed to shy away from anything without a dropped waist.  I won't even show you those pictures because I'm not putting pics that bad of me on the interwebz.

I'll start with the ones that definitely didn't make the cut...please don't laugh at me too much!

Maggie Sottero's Rhianna Royale: I thought it would be a front runner but those beautiful little flowers look like weird cotton balls in pictures.  Plus, I'm so flat chested that I need a bit of a sweetheart neckline.  Sorry Maggie, you'll have to try again.

creepy doll hands!

Maggie Sottero Rowena: I don't know what's going on with that neckline, but it's not flattering on me!  It kind of reminds me of when I tucked down my bra straps because I couldn't find a clean strapless bra to wear with a dress...BAD IDEA let me tell you.  It ends up looking like this haha.

Eh...nice...but just not for me.  I'm also partial to corsets.

I love this style and the shape it gives me.  But it just wasn't it...

I want to suck your blood!!  And...marry you...yeah, all lace dresses do not flatter me.  The bridal consultant nicely said, "It seems to overpower you."  I said, "It looks like I gained 20 pounds in 1.5 minutes."  The vampiress collar doesn't help either...but it would be PERFECT for a Twilight themed wedding!  Come on...I know someone out there's doing it...

OK, away from the bad and the ugly...let's move on to the good.  And we know what this means:

Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

Sometime in August I got the BEST news ever!  One of my BMs is getting married next summer as well.  Almost exactly 1 month before I am.  Well, we went out to lunch together at my favorite hippie burrito joint where I shared my first date with Mr. B and I received a pretty cool envelope...

photo taken by me

Yeah, there's an envelope buried in my poor, overworked and underpaid Longchamp.  What was inside the envelope?!

photo taken by me

 YAY!  Excuse the couch upholstered in yellow lab...we have given up trying to get dog hair out of corduroy...it's impossible.  Reallyreallyreally impossible.

Wedding Roadblocks

A few months ago, I hit a major wedding block.  Basically, my wedding inspiration had been looking like this:

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Why?  Well, I think it all stemmed (pardon the pun!) from a meeting with my florist.  Why is she my florist?  My grandmother has known her for years.  What is adjacent to her flower shop?  A cemetery.