It's one of the best feelings in the whole wedding planning process -- when the bride FINALLY finds THE DRESS!!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Turning a New Leaf...
-- in our wedding theme, that is! ;)
There's a potential major change of plans, and we're excited! While working/sharing with some of my sisters yesterday, I was able to get some planning advice as far as putting together colors and determining a central theme. It wasn't long before it dawned on me that my fiance was all about being modern. Not just modern with a twist of this and that, but STRAIGHT UP modern! As he knows very well, I'm a very adaptable woman, and in this case, I can adapt to any theme, just as long as everything flows together and there's no clashing or colors or outfits! Well, after going home and "discussing" (I put that in quotes for a reason, haha) more about our theme, we ran into more and more obstacles that set us two steps back in our plans each time...
We didn't have much time to talk things over due to our overwhelmingly busy schedules, but we discussed the topic enough to the point where we knew rest would be the best thing for us at the moment, and perhaps God will reveal more of what He has in mind for us in the morning.
Sure enough, this evening, I got a phone call from the fiance with a mouthful of crazy ideas! Crazy... yet amazing ideas, in my opinion! He always envisioned his wedding to be very specific -- Let me stop here... Yes, I know it's "kind of" out of this world for a man to even have that 7-letter word in his head -- but actually imagining it is hilarious. I really hope I'm not distorting his words, but regardless, he just went 10 notches ABOVE #1 man in MY book (and that's all that counts, right?)! Anyways, he had some details already envisioned, but all this time, I never knew about it because we thought our options were very limited. I guess when it comes to the work of God, we can't put Him in a box, right? :)
We're still trying to get the details finalized, so we won't make any announcements until then. Despite our differing tastes and opinions, we've learned so many new and interesting things about each other, and we've found a way to express the best of both of us... Praise God! Thank you to all my sisters for all the fun times we had yesterday chit-chatting about this! ;)
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
THE Dress
It's one of the best feelings in the whole wedding planning process -- when the bride FINALLY finds THE DRESS!!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Turning a New Leaf...
-- in our wedding theme, that is! ;)
There's a potential major change of plans, and we're excited! While working/sharing with some of my sisters yesterday, I was able to get some planning advice as far as putting together colors and determining a central theme. It wasn't long before it dawned on me that my fiance was all about being modern. Not just modern with a twist of this and that, but STRAIGHT UP modern! As he knows very well, I'm a very adaptable woman, and in this case, I can adapt to any theme, just as long as everything flows together and there's no clashing or colors or outfits! Well, after going home and "discussing" (I put that in quotes for a reason, haha) more about our theme, we ran into more and more obstacles that set us two steps back in our plans each time...
We didn't have much time to talk things over due to our overwhelmingly busy schedules, but we discussed the topic enough to the point where we knew rest would be the best thing for us at the moment, and perhaps God will reveal more of what He has in mind for us in the morning.
Sure enough, this evening, I got a phone call from the fiance with a mouthful of crazy ideas! Crazy... yet amazing ideas, in my opinion! He always envisioned his wedding to be very specific -- Let me stop here... Yes, I know it's "kind of" out of this world for a man to even have that 7-letter word in his head -- but actually imagining it is hilarious. I really hope I'm not distorting his words, but regardless, he just went 10 notches ABOVE #1 man in MY book (and that's all that counts, right?)! Anyways, he had some details already envisioned, but all this time, I never knew about it because we thought our options were very limited. I guess when it comes to the work of God, we can't put Him in a box, right? :)
We're still trying to get the details finalized, so we won't make any announcements until then. Despite our differing tastes and opinions, we've learned so many new and interesting things about each other, and we've found a way to express the best of both of us... Praise God! Thank you to all my sisters for all the fun times we had yesterday chit-chatting about this! ;)
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