Today’s the big day: The day my best friend* marries her best friend. The culmination of a lot of planning. And worry. For me, most of that worry was about the dress.
If you’ve been following along, you know that the bridesmaid dress I ordered didn’t quite fit when it came in (even though the same size was a little big when I tried it on in the store, grr grr grr). It was snug, and snug in an unattractive way. The exact opposite of what I was going for.
Rather than take everyone’s advice and call the store and find out what the deal was (great advice, but it just didn’t happen), I worried about it in the back of my mind for a while, and did nothing.
Of course, I’ve continued to do an adequate job of eating well (and by that I mean good amounts of healthy food, not eating like a king) and exercising. I got the dress altered so the strap that goes around the neck was the correct length (it’s a halter-style dress), and I bought some body smoothing under garments (ie: fat squishing torture devices).
And it fits.
And looks pretty good, too, if I do say so myself.
Of course, now the problem is shoes, but that’s another story altogether. Quickly, though: Did you know that when you lose a significant amount of weight your shoe size can go down?! That seems so odd to me, but it’s happened folks: I used to wear a size 10.5 – even 11 sometimes – and now I’m in a 9.5/10. In fact, the shoes I’m wearing to this wedding should have been a 9. (Instead, the first ones I ordered were a 10… WAY too big, and the next pair I ordered were a 9.5… still too big, but they’ll have to make do, considering they came in yesterday. ) It’s very hard to find white shoes in Winter…
I’m about to eat some breakfast, and then I’ll be heading to get my hair done with the girls. Then it’s wedding time!
Photos to come.
*Excepting my fabulous husband.
