The Dress!

Last Monday my mom and I set out to look for the perfect dress. Knowing that I was going to get engaged in April or May, I had already set up appointments to look at dresses prior to getting engaged. This was because I wanted to get the dress at home with my mom, and I didn't know when I would be back in town. Our first appointment was at Schaffer's Bridal.

We arrived at Schaffer's and my consultant Lisa was waiting. She was so great! I told her what I was looking for and my price point and she took me over to an area with a bunch of dresses. It was definitely a challenge looking through all of the dresses, they weren't the most gorgeous things on the hanger. I ended up pulling 5 dresses to try on.

The first dress I tried on was beautiful and I loved it, something I wasn't necessarily expecting right away. Then the second dress I tried on was different than the first and I loved it too! I became a little overwhelmed because I didn't think that I would find one, let alone two dresses I would love right away and especially not the first two. Feeling a little overwhelmed I tried on the remaining 3 dresses, but luckily I didn't like any of them. I put the first dress back on again and this time I didn't like it as much. The first dress was a discontinued dress so they were selling the one they had on the sales floor. The problem was it was a size 12. That meant they would have to alter it about 10 sizes smaller and that would change the entire look of the dress. Also, there was so much dress that it was wearing me. So that was an easy decision to make. Then I put dress # 2 back on and I absolutely loved it!. We walked over to the area where they have veils and I tried on a bunch of veils. It was perfect! We still had two other appointments to go to so we told Lisa we would probably be back but we felt like we needed to go to the other two appointments. On our way out to the car I told my mom I just felt like canceling the other two appointments because I really loved the dress I had found at Schaffer's.

We decided to go to our second appointment anyways. At this place I didn't like any dresses, but felt kind of bad so I tried on one dress just cause. The customer service was bad and the dresses were just not what I was looking for. As we walked out I made the decision that we were done look and all I wanted to do was go buy the dress at Schaffer's. We were back at Schaffer's within 30 minutes of leaving. Lisa was very surprised and happy to see us back. That's when I told her I was back to buy dress #2! We took a lot of pictures and filled out the necessary paper work. I also picked out my bridesmaid dresses while we were there too!  I am so excited about finding my dress and the bridesmaid dresses. We even found my nieces flower girl dress on Etsy later that day!

-Rachel