The final wedding dress decision (and how I got there)

I have never been one of those women who dreamed of her wedding day her entire life. To me, you grow up, you find a career path and you find ways to utilise your potential and if someone cool comes along that you want to be with, great, if not, oh well, you carry on.My sister was quite different though and so perhaps it was more my own perception of what was normal rather than our upbringing but when I became engaged, it was a bit of a thing for me to think of what I actually wanted for this wedding. The life plan was easy! The wedding, not so much.

Luckily Alan had a pretty good idea of what he wanted and some pretty good ideas too and my female friends have also contributed a lot to getting me into the whole wedding thing and now I'm well on my way with 10 weeks and two days to go.

One of the things I battled with most was choosing a wedding dress. There were so many wedding dresses but only 5 distinct styles and while women everywhere complained about having too much choice, I felt that there wasn't enough. I didn't look good in any of the wedding dress styles in my opinion and whether this one had extra pleats or this one was made of Chiffon while this one was made of Duchess Satin, they still amounted to the same thing to me.

I am not someone for lots of frills and bows but I do feel that a wedding dress should not look like something you wore to a dance, just in white. What added to my dilemma was actual dancing. If you've done formal dancing, you're usually aware of certain things that matter like tripping over your dress, having the dress not fall off of you when you move and not showing your panties to everyone if you were doing hectic turns. This had to be taken into consideration as well. You laugh with the panties but I have seen so many old lady's panties in their little dancing expos that it's become like a "whatever" sight and so with that mentioned, if you've never danced and you're wearing this lovely little dress for your dance, please, please wear those little shorts underneath for the sake of your guests!

To cut a very long story short, I decided to go with bits from a wedding dress which would look good on my small frame and bits from a formal dress that I could dance comfortably in and still look good. In fact, my dress is convertible and I think it was the best way of getting the best of both worlds with a more wedding dress type of dress for the ceremony, while not looking too wedding dress-ey and then the dress to dance in after that is suitable but not just an everyday dress in white.
I will post pics after the wedding.

Here are some pics of what I was referring to earlier though: