When it was around the time to go to do Dress shopping for my Forever Love Ceremony I went to a place called David’s Bridal. I went shopping with my Mom and two sisters Megan and Lindsay. At the store there was a lot of beautiful dresses all around and we start to look and browse around. I feel excited and happy to have this special day and special moments.
I was looking and browse around on my own by myself and with my sisters and my Mom and we take pictures. After I went and have already browse around I find some dresses on my own and my sisters and Mom find some too and I want to tell you about them and how I try them on. And also how I find the one that is my Dress.
I try on a dress that have no straps and you wear a strapless bra and to make sure it stays up. I like it and I do love the dress it looks good and pretty but I wasn’t sure about that to have it to fall down. I think this dress is pick out by Lindsay my sister.
There is another dress I try on and I think that Megan my sister pick it out for me to try on. I do love and like this dress and it look very beautiful and sparkling. It kind of go very down in the front and I have to wear a shirt under it. I was kind of happy but wasn’t sure about that how it go low down.
Here is the last dress I try on before I find my dress that is the one. It is a dress that I want to try on and it is down off the side of my arms and I pose really good and it is look very good. I really like it how it is down off the side of my arms. It look beautiful and I was happy to find a dress that I try on to go down off my side of my arms. And when I lift my arms up it kind of was hard to do that and I not able to move very easy and then I think Maybe this is not the one and the perfect dress for me.
I have a lot of favorite and best moments during the Dress Shopping. I want to tell you about this big moment first.
It is when the dressing room door open and I turn around and my Mom and sisters and the Shopper Workers all say Wow! And I had feel it kind of and was already thinking it and I feel that I know that this is the dress. Everyone say it is beautiful and I think they say it is Stunning.
And I say I think I found the one. I think I found my dress.
I want to make sure to be able to dance in my dress and I start to dance at David’s Bridal to make sure I can and am able to dance to the song by Bob Carlisle called Butterfly Kisses for with my Dad at the ceremony. And also to dance for our First Dance song with Mark to dance to our special song by Reba McEntire called Forever Love.
Another thing why it is important to dance in my dress because I don’t want to trip on my dress and to not make a tear in it or get caught on something. I want to be careful with my dress and have it protect when we are on the dance floor.
I have more favorite moments too. And my favorite moments is that how the shopper workers help me when I try on the dresses and help to make the dress not too tight but tight enough to hold it in place inside. And they help with the bustle to make my dress not drag on the floor very much when I move. My dress have two types of bustle it have a French Bustle and a English Bustle. It take a lot of alterations and cost a lot of money but I not sure if I need to say that or not.
My other favorite moments is to take pictures with the big heart that say I found the one! with my Mom and sisters and I ring the bell on that day and I say yes to the dress.
Another very favorite moment is when I look through at the front of the mirror all by myself and take a special moment to myself in my life standing right there in my dress for my Forever Love ceremony in my dress I pick out on my own. That is a beautiful and loving moment.
And then I have a very heartwarming beautiful favorite moment I have with my Mom that when we both of us hold together and have a very emotional happy cry together before we check out to buy my dress.
We go to out to lunch to celebrate together and we go to the Restaurant Jams. I have a Shirley Temple to celebrate and pasta for this special time and also we had bread too.
Yesterday was March 16, 2020. We are currently navigating our way through a St. Patrick’s Day that feels all but lucky.
*Sidenote: For some reason, this post is marked 3/18. It is, in fact, 3/17. Things are weird right now…
The number 16 has always been my favorite number. A number that I would consider lucky. It’s the date of my parent’s wedding anniversary. It was the age I was able to drive a car. It’s a birthday that is so special, it’s been labeled “sweet”. And also, it was the date in March, one year and one day ago, when Leah rang that bell and said YES to THE dress. It was a moment I’d dreamt for her for as long as I can remember.
Looking back at the moment when Leah stepped out of the dressing room with that “this is it” sparkle in her eye, I can’t help but feel lucky. In life, we all have downs, but those moments are completely overshadowed when we focus on the ups. This was an up I don’t want to forget.
Shopping for a wedding dress with Leah was beautiful. Stress was low and joy was high. The necessities? Aisles and aisles of dresses to “browse” through, CHECK. An abundance of white fabric, CHECK. Mirrors… so many mirrors, CHECK. A platform to be displayed on, a private dressing room, a personal assistant, bright lights, shiny embellishments galore… check, check, check. The stage was set and it felt like a scene right out of Father of the Bride, or any other movie with a wedding dress scene — which was PERFECT. Honestly, that’s all that really mattered in Leah’s mind. The dress Leah was the most excited to try on was the “down off the side of my arms” off-the-shoulder dress because of a Bridesmaid’s dress that Julia Roberts rocked in a scene she loved from My Best Friend’s Wedding.
It didn’t take long for us to recognize that Leah meant business about dress shopping when she physically came to a halt before we walked into the store, reached into her purse, opened up her mini mirror, and applied her signature red lipstick. Power. Move.
In one of the videos that I have from that day, Leah is simply glowing as she begins to sway from side to side in her dress. At the end of the clip, you can hear her say, “but will I be able to da…,” as it cuts off. What was her biggest concern about the dress? Dancing. She could not, would not, imagine her reception without the ability to bust a move.
She then, naturally, wanted to test it out… at the bridal shop…in front of an audience. How could she possibly say yes to the dress before knowing if she could sufficiently dance to Butterfly Kisses in the thing? It was perfectly Leah.
Throughout the entire experience, she wasn’t concerned with a designer label or shedding some lbs. When she looked in the mirror as she was trying on those dresses, what she saw was a representation of love. She saw the dress she would be wearing when she committed to forever with the love of her life. And so long as she could whip her hair on the dance floor in celebration after the ceremony, she was going to rock that dress (along with lipstick, of course). Spoiler alert? She owned it on their big day. Next Tuesday, our post will be all things ceremony and you will see for yourself:).
Leah has always been the lucky one in our family. On March 16, 2019, I felt like the lucky one. Two days after my 30th birthday, Leah set the bar for when it’s my turn to shop for a wedding dress. Stress low, joy high, and above all… don’t forget to dance.
Here’s to turning our minds Upside Down.
