My bestest friend (and regular WB reader) Erin is getting married in June to her high school sweetheart. Here they are in one of their gorgeous engagement photos:

We got engaged about a month apart from each other and have had fun being able to support each other with all the planning craziness. We send each other links to dresses, paper products (we are both a little obsessed with paper), make-up artists and flowers. We crab about being engaged for way too long. We gossip about the knot boards. We are sharing a few vendors and the negotiation tactics have been helpful. We drive our friends crazy by talking weddings whenever we are together. Ahhh... what would I do without her? Erin's wedding will kick-off the official summer o'weddings- aka, the wedding season.
Between June and October, we will attend five weddings. Two of these weddings are on the same night. One is a very close friend from growing up and the other is my cousin- there is no way I can miss either of them. We will have to pull off some Three's Company style tricks. Oh, and we will need to squeeze our wedding in at some point, too. The key issue at hand is what to wear. I can probably wear the bridesmaid's dress from Erin's wedding to my cousin's wedding (thank you, Erin, for picking out something I can wear again), but after that I am going to see the same people over and over again. I feel the need to spice it up, with my "no fun stuff due to upcoming wedding" budget in mind.
My normal shopping schedule usually includes:
Between June and October, we will attend five weddings. Two of these weddings are on the same night. One is a very close friend from growing up and the other is my cousin- there is no way I can miss either of them. We will have to pull off some Three's Company style tricks. Oh, and we will need to squeeze our wedding in at some point, too. The key issue at hand is what to wear. I can probably wear the bridesmaid's dress from Erin's wedding to my cousin's wedding (thank you, Erin, for picking out something I can wear again), but after that I am going to see the same people over and over again. I feel the need to spice it up, with my "no fun stuff due to upcoming wedding" budget in mind.
My normal shopping schedule usually includes:
- Walk into Anthropologie
- Contemplate knocking off a bank and buying everything in the store
- Give up on previous idea and look for places to hide so that I can live there instead
- Give up that idea while I clear the wracks of everything in my size and walk to the dressing room
- Talk myself out of everything but the one thing I really need
- Grab a headband on the way to the counter
- Buy my stuff, pretending not to be shocked at my total
I can’t say that I’ve ever really been invited to tons of weddings at a time, but I have 3 this year. So between the weddings, my rehearsal dinner, and my honeymoon, I have been keeping my eyes open for cocktail dresses for the past year or so.
ReplyDeleteI 100 % agree that Forever 21 is a great place to find steels!
Other places I scored recently:
*The Express off the rack clearance sale! (I got a couple very nice dresses, and about 5 really nice honeymoon tops for $65!!)
* Believe it or not …..Marshall’s …found a little satin cocktail number (org tag showed a couple hundred or so), on the clearance rack for $7!
*And I found my dress for my rehearsal dinner at Charlotte Russe for $20 and it’s gorgeous!
So I am completely set for the weddings and any thing else any one wants to toss at me now! :)