Dress Shopping, Part 2

Yesterday Mom, Laura, and I went on the dress quest. We started in Kakauna (city motto: "What's that smell?") at the Bridal Staircase which is a great store. The woman who runs it is very friendly and laid back. She left me and my small entourage to all the dress choosing and trying on by ourselves, which was great.

We spent over 2 hours there - I don't even know how many dresses I tried on. At that store we narrowed it down to 2 favorites: this one and this one (both with celedon color accents).

After that we drove back to Green Bay (stopping first for lunch, of course) over to Elaine Bridal. They were the more traditional style of pairing you with an attendant to help get the dresses on and off. We were helped by an older woman named Carol who was wonderful! She was so much fun, and good at giving compliments (I have a "tiny waist" - comparatively speaking to other attributes, that is - and "very long eyelashes" and "beautiful shoulders." Hey, I'm not adverse to compliments!)

I tried on a Googleplex more dresses, but in the end I kept going back to the very first one of the day. The one that caught my eye back when I started looking at dresses on-line back in October.

We hadn't planned on buying a dress, but Elaine's had made a mistake and wrote down a really low price on the dress tag. So, I bought it! THE DRESS.

No pictures yet. I'm not ready to reveal it. But I bought it (for nearly $200 less than in other stores!)