The Difficulty of the Wedding Dress
There are few occasions in our modern world where a girl unearths herself in a position to wear a no-holds-barred ball robe, let alone a crystal tiara, and all too many where she is called on to wear to a neutral suit or uninspiring “biz-caz” combo. No wonder that with so many brides, their wedding plans begin with the dress. They may search low and high, facing cold department shops and in your face bridal shops, but finally they come face-to-face with The One. They know this is The One because they start crying, or their mummy or buddies all start crying right now. The theme, the tone, the right sort of venues. They’ve searched just as hard, working their way through shops across 3 or 4 states, but they have not found The One.
Instead, they’ve found 3 or 4 Contenders, all of which are serviceable and nice, but not earth-shattering enough to inform them that now is certainly time to stop the looking and get on with the planning. Even if you are the 1st kind of bride, purchasing the dress is a significant decision that you run a likelihood of falling into that wallet-skinning class called the Two-Dress Bride. These are some tips for picking the ideal dress and avoiding that terrible destiny. It’s fun and helpful to bring your mum, friends or sisters on the dress-shopping expedition. It gives you a buffer against an overbearing sales staff, and it’s entertaining to see whether your impressions of perfection are shared by your family and friends, not to mention how they will love being an element of such a crucial call. But regardless of how avid everybody gets over a certain dress, don’t buy in the heat of the moment. Give yourself time to rethink and buy with a cool head later, alone. The overwhelming majority of dresses are non-returnable, so when you have acquired it, you’ve acquired it.
Bridal robes can take 4 to 10 coming months from the maker, but there is no reason to buy over 12 months beforehand, unless your selected style is going to be dropped. Give yourself a little time to sit on your decision.
When you pick a robe, you may see a hundred others virtually like it. You will become a walking encyclopedia on that style of robe. All the better if you have room to choose.
Any more window-shopping at that point will only lead you down the road toward the dull land of Two-Dress Brides.
What you want to do instead is remember that ecstatic sense of having attempted on The One. Go get The One out of the closet, put it on and stand in front of the mirror. Be fair — tell them you have already remortgaged your apartment for the first dress, but you believe this 2nd dress could be It. They are going to be honest, too — the 1st one was better.
Don’t tell yourself “I’ll sell the old dress and select a new one. “This old saw of the Two-Dress Bride just will not work. You can never get more than a fragment of what you paid for your first dress if you purchased it new.



