wedding dress shopping...

Yesterday we headed out to look for a wedding dress for Laura, and what an experience it was! Our consultant for the first part of the appt was the asst manager, Richard. He was hilarious! He clearly loved his job and was wonderful at helping Laura. His demonstration for her on how she should get into the dresses was hysterical, and he was quite shocked that she's going to be an engineer...his mouth dropped on that one. And when he asked why she had a farmer tan and she told him she works on a construction site this summer, I thought he just might fall over! Finally she came out in her first dress...one that she had seen online. It truly was beautiful and yes, I got a bit teary. About 6 dresses later the novelty had worn off. She looked stunning in each and every one, but it was a bit hard to visualize how they would really look since everything she tried on was a size 4 and she's a "sub-o" in size. Clips are wonderful things, but even they couldn't make the dresses small enough for our bride. Still, she now has a better idea of what she hopes to find and we have plenty of time to try again. The 3 bridesmaids know what they're supposed to look for now, too. If only we could take Richard with us wherever we go to try dresses on, it would be a blast!