four hundred fourteen

bridesmaids dresses are done and chosen! again, its super early, but it's done, one less thing to think about and it worked out so perfectly, my cousin bailey came in town and one of my bridesmaids megan was going to leave the following monday for kc. so everyone was in town for this friday.

we met up at the wedding gallery in st. charles which has the largest selection of bridesmaids dresses in the midwest. this is the shop where i got my beautiful and amazing dress (which has been out of my mind, well until now, and is carefully tucked away in my aunts gracious closet for safe keeping for another four hundred plus days) unfortunately my mom was out of town but my two aunts and cousin's grandma were wonderful step-ins. we arrived as soon as it opened and walked into a completely dark building...no power. ha well that didn't stop us! we were completely fine with using the light from the door to see these dresses! we would go to the men's dressing rooms in the front of the dark building, then race up to the door to take a look, quite the experience. after a few minutes of searching and trying in darkness the lights flickered to life and we continued without a hitch.

with four girls to try on dresses we basically took up their entire back room. we had about twenty different dresses that were swapped, switched and tossed between dressing rooms so everyone could try on each dress. i knew i was leaning towards chiffon fabric, and i loved empire waists but we tried on other options as well. however in the end whether from the general consensus or my slight nudges (i say slight nudges, but since we ended up with my original favorite dress i guess there were some definite shoves from me that helped in our "General Consensus") we ended up with a perfect dress. though i might be biased i think it looks wonderful on everyone. its elegant but simple and not over the top 'bridesmaid' ... well you'll have to be the true judge on that.

i won't show you a picture but i will tell you that it is the same color as that jeep in my previous post and it is chiffon fabric. i love it and hope my wonderful, beautiful, talented, amazing girls will like it too.

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