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I got stuck on a "reality" show last weekend...... Bridezillas
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 365333" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I think we were able to get easy child 2/difficult child 2's dress for A$1600. The design she wanted, with little cap sleeves, was another $400 so she bought the strapless gown which, while it looked lovely, looked wrong on her. She looks too young, she needed something a little more demure. So what we did, was in the week before the wedding, we went to a wholesale designers' haberdashery in the city and, with the (heavy) wedding dress being carried up five flights of stairs by SIL2 (who closed is eyes obediently very time we unzipped the opaque garment bag to pull out pat of the dress to compare lace design and colour), we bought some lengths of stretch lace about 4" wide. We bough about half a metre for about $5 then sewed it on by hand, carefully. It looked perfect. </p><p></p><p>So while there was some Bridezilla about my daughter (such as buying a $1000 pearl pendant to wear as something she can pass on to a daughter) she generally did her best to save money. That pearl pendant - we still have it here, I think in my sock drawer. It's beautiful, but $1000? When she was still paying it off and then lost her job the day after she picked it up from the jeweller? That was a bit of a disaster.</p><p></p><p>Oh,and with so many bridesmaids each wearing a different jewel-coloured dress, she bought a dainty necklace and matching earrings for each, using an Avon catalogue and birthstone sets. That way they all had the same design, but colours to match the dresses. Smart kid!</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile I was mother of the bride for the second time in the same year, had been mother of the groom also within the same 12 months and really couldn't wear the same dress again. So for this last wedding, I finally bought a long evening dress in painted silk. I had a evening professional formal dinner to attend coming up, I could wear the dress then. Only over the next couple of weeks I had a messy falling-out with the organisation whose ball I was to attend, and needed to stay away. So I still haven't worn that dress. I was going to wear it last Saturday night's dinner for husband's event, but now with my breast cancer treatment, I can't wear that dress, not until the skin settles down after all the radiation treatment. I need to use a stick-on bra with it, and I'm not sure if the new shape of my scarred boob will take it.</p><p></p><p>So whether you're a bride or not, always make sure you will get more use out of your dress. Because you never know what life will throw at you.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 365333, member: 1991"] I think we were able to get easy child 2/difficult child 2's dress for A$1600. The design she wanted, with little cap sleeves, was another $400 so she bought the strapless gown which, while it looked lovely, looked wrong on her. She looks too young, she needed something a little more demure. So what we did, was in the week before the wedding, we went to a wholesale designers' haberdashery in the city and, with the (heavy) wedding dress being carried up five flights of stairs by SIL2 (who closed is eyes obediently very time we unzipped the opaque garment bag to pull out pat of the dress to compare lace design and colour), we bought some lengths of stretch lace about 4" wide. We bough about half a metre for about $5 then sewed it on by hand, carefully. It looked perfect. So while there was some Bridezilla about my daughter (such as buying a $1000 pearl pendant to wear as something she can pass on to a daughter) she generally did her best to save money. That pearl pendant - we still have it here, I think in my sock drawer. It's beautiful, but $1000? When she was still paying it off and then lost her job the day after she picked it up from the jeweller? That was a bit of a disaster. Oh,and with so many bridesmaids each wearing a different jewel-coloured dress, she bought a dainty necklace and matching earrings for each, using an Avon catalogue and birthstone sets. That way they all had the same design, but colours to match the dresses. Smart kid! Meanwhile I was mother of the bride for the second time in the same year, had been mother of the groom also within the same 12 months and really couldn't wear the same dress again. So for this last wedding, I finally bought a long evening dress in painted silk. I had a evening professional formal dinner to attend coming up, I could wear the dress then. Only over the next couple of weeks I had a messy falling-out with the organisation whose ball I was to attend, and needed to stay away. So I still haven't worn that dress. I was going to wear it last Saturday night's dinner for husband's event, but now with my breast cancer treatment, I can't wear that dress, not until the skin settles down after all the radiation treatment. I need to use a stick-on bra with it, and I'm not sure if the new shape of my scarred boob will take it. So whether you're a bride or not, always make sure you will get more use out of your dress. Because you never know what life will throw at you. Marg [/QUOTE]
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