recap part 2: wedding dress

I am very glad I made my own dress for my wedding.  As far as I can tell it wasn’t even more stressful to make it than buy a dress after hearing about poor quality and fitting horror stories from a couple friends this summer.  At least I had no one else but myself to get mad at if it turned out poorly.  I was comfortable and a good temperature all night, and I’m glad I didn’t do a train… just not my thing.  Here are a few photos and comments in order of the gallery.

1. Tadaaaaa- my completed wedding dress laying out on the hotel room bed, waiting for me to put it on.

2. A close up of the layers- it looks so fluffy!

3. A full shot- Although it fit great I still felt the need to hitch it up every once in a while, just to check.

4. The pretty side.

5. The not-as-pretty side- there’s a zipper hiding in there somewhere. 

MIA, but for a good reason!

So John and I have been married for over two months now.  Since the big day, we went to Mexico, went to Dallas to be in one of my favorite people’s weddings, re-organized the kitchen, cleaned up random wedding mess, worked, and got back into the swing of cooking at home and going to the gym.  Then I went to Asia, finished season deadlines at work, and finished a new wedding dress for my friend Liz (details later!).  Forgive me if I still have to recap all the wedding fun that I haven’t talked about in detail yet! 

I’ve decided since it’s taken me many many tries to finish this post, I’m going to break it down further.  Let’s see if we can go in chronological order here.  1st- the rehearsal dinner dress.  I didn’t wear it because I decided it turned out too horribly.  I want to turn it into something else… I’ll post on that later if it happens.  :)  Next up is my wedding dress, then the bridesmaids’ dresses.