Say "Yes" to the dress?

Courtney tries on dresses!

     Hello everyone, it's Kate writing a post to tell you a little bit about our first experience dress shopping yesterday. To introduce myself, I am a bridesmaid and one of Courtney's friends since middle school. Anyway, I'll get back to the more important matter of The Dress.

    Courtney and I looked at dresses the other day online and from that, I got a few clues as to what she was looking for in her wedding dress: classic, lace, A-line, and vintage were just a couple of the words I picked up on from the dresses she showed me. A few days later, I got a text asking if we wanted to go up to David's Bridal in the city to take a look in person. Heck Yes! 

Lily, wedding dress extraordinaire

   So Kelcie, Courtney, Debbie (Court's mom), and I all started out on an adventure Saturday afternoon. Once we got there, it was a bit overwhelming being surrounded by a million static-charged dresses and lots of happy engaged brides, but soon our lovely David's Bridal Assistant, Lily, emerged to help us wade through the options. 

    Almost everything looked amazing on Courtney (yes, all 12 dresses), but she somehow managed to narrow it down to two options, both of which embodied "classic, lace, and vintage." However, each of these gowns had their own vibe and will create two very different weddings. We left undecided. 

Check them out below and make your vote as to which dress Courtney should pick:

Option 1: All Over Beaded Lace Trumpet Gown

                Highlights: cap sleeve, lace overlay, beading, train

Option 2: All Over Lace Patchwork A Line Gown

                Highlights: strapless, tiered lace on skirt, fitted bodice

Well I Guess We Are Getting Married (And A Brief Breaking Dawn Talk)

     For New Year's Eve, 2010, my friends and I decided to go to a Party. This is very much out of our character, as our interests tend to be similar to either twelve-year-old boys or eighty-year-old women. We waited patiently for the one person we knew at the party to text us on his arrival. After two hours of waiting we finally made it the party. It was there that I met a very nice young man, and a year to the day later he asked me to marry him.
     We have been engaged for about three weeks now and I decided to make this blog for those whom (isn't "whom" such a pompous sounding word?) might be interested in the goings on in the wedding process. You will get to read the ups and downs of working on a budget, mod podging together leftovers from other weddings, and the other shenanigans that will make this wedding possible. Not quite sure about which people will be posting on this thing, but hey, that is part of the fun.

 -Courtney aka The Bride

(So, while writing this I looked up wedding videos on YouTube and came across the wedding scene form Breaking Dawn, the first of the last of the Twilight Saga. It was very authentic. I mean I really believe that a teenage girl was given unlimited money to plan a wedding; it was that tacky. I enjoyed reading the books, but really? Go look it up on YouTube and you will see what I mean.)