77 days

This is me, after a long day of dress shopping

This excited face means that I have finally found a wedding dress. We had to go to 5 different stores before we found the right one. It was a long and stressful day. As I went to the different stores I noticed that they don't have many options for bigger sized women. I know that I'm a little overweight but a lot of these dresses were sizes 0 through 10. They had a few dresses in a size 14 but even then they felt 2 sizes too small. If I found a dress that I like I could order it in my size, but I would have to buy it.

It really disappointments that stores don't carry dresses in bigger sizes. Not all women are small and skinny. Women come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I'm overweight yes, but I'm also curvy. I've had wide hips ever since I was 12. Makes it hard to find pants that fit me right. I need pants big enough to go over my hips, but then that causes my pants to fall down and constantly needing a belt. I hope stores realize that they would get more business if they catered to women in all sizes. Anyway, 4 hours went by and no luck finding a dress. We sat down for lunch and I was on a verge of an emotional break down. Our last option was to go back to David's Bridal to see if they had the dress I liked. I've been to the one in Salem. I found the style of dress I wanted but it wasn't in the right color. This is where my mom came to the rescue! She had been busy making phone calls to all the local David's Bridal looking for the dress I tried on orginally. Well she found one. We finished up and we headed back over. 

I'm happy to say that I found my dress and I was able to take it home with me!! I'm not posting a picture of it but I will give you a hint:

I'm feeling very accomplished right now, even though there is still so much to do. But now that I have my wedding dress, I focus on other things. The next step is find what I want to do with my hair. I'm currently growing it out so I'm able to fix it. I would like to do an up-do, similar to how I had it for my senior prom. I found some designs that I like

I love the one curl that hangs down!

The other option is doing just part of my hair up, with parts of it down and curly

I can't really decide what I want to do. If you know anyway that does hair and would like to practice on me, let me know or send them to me!