What is the point of all this, you ask? I gained weight... You might be thinking (or saying out loud, as many of you have) that I was too skinny before. You might be feeling that I could afford to add on some layers. That is all well and good, but when your weight is 25lbs more than it was at the time the dress was ordered that is a problem.
So, Other Wife came with me to Wilmington to my dress fitting today. They hand me the dress, I go into the fitting room. Since I'm uncoordinated, I opted to step into the dress, rather than try to find the opening to put it over my head through 5 layers of tulle, etc. I pulled it up and the neckline made it to my belly button... *gasp*
I couldn't pull it up any higher.
The mermaid part of it got stuck on my thighs.
Other Wife noted the deafening silence coming from the dressing room and knew immediately that something was wrong. She found me almost in tears. The dress is too small. I ate too much chocolate cake and now my dress is too small. I can't get another dress in 30 days!!!
So, the seamstress says not to worry, she can let it out. The dresses are made with extra material in the seams for just this kind of situation. The problem was that it was stuck on my thighs and I couldn't get it back off to give it to her to let out. I'm fully fighting back tears and panic now, because I didn't want to rip the lace trying to uncork myself from the dress.
Other Wife came in with the assist and managed to get the dress off and over to the seamstress, who grabbed her seam ripper and pulled about a foot of seam threads on both the left and right sides of the dress.
When she was done ripping seams, she had me put it back on. Thank God! This time I was able to pull it up. This allowed her to properly mark the distance from above my knee to my hips, so that she could tailor the 4 layers in between the top and bottom ones.
She was also able to let me know that the corset laced up to a perfect V. I was excited to hear this since a proper V corset looks beautiful. Granted, I won't see it, but everyone else will and I'm sure Dawn will be excited to take back photos because of it.. My only concern, which I told Other Wife about, was what I call the "back butt."
It is when you have gained enough weight that your back fat creases in the middle of your back. Unfortunately, with the corset tie, and the seamstress telling me to stand straight and put my shoulders back, I ended up with a back butt. I know you can see it in the photo. My back has its own butt crack. We'll have to figure out how to make that not happen.
Other Wife told me just to make sure my arms are fully extended forward through the whole wedding. So, don't worry. It isn't the Zombie Apocalypse. When you see me walking arms extended like the undead, its just to ensure my back doesn't grow a butt.
The other area of concern was the bust. I didn't remember the dress coming with Madonna cones when I first tried it on, but this time around those suckers wouldn't line up correctly with my own chest and it was looking rather odd. Once again, the seamstress came to the rescue by giving me those chicken cutlets to insert into my dress.
She first gave me the push-up ones and holy moly, it gave me wayyyyy more bust than I ever wanted. So we knocked it down to simple cup inserts, and once the dress was pulled up to the correct location, they did the trick. She's also going to work her sewing magic with the lace so that it contours better. This should also help the dress to stay put.
I said that in keeping with the police theme, I would get those garter-type straps female officers use to conceal firearms under dresses, and just strap the fans onto my thighs. In any case, we got a great laugh out of it.
Another awesome thing was that because of the seam ripping, we had to wait for a bit. This gave us the opportunity to look at hair pieces. The new spring line was in and so there were dozens which were not available when I was last there.
Other Wife picked out a gorgeous one and my mother was kind enough to buy it for me! I loved it from the minute I saw it, but due to the price, I wasn't going to get it. Other Wife had been texting my mother pictures and she texted Other Wife to tell me that she was going to buy it for me. I am so thankful because it is exactly what I was looking for and it will make all the difference. I have my hair trial this Friday, so we'll get to see Magnolia Jane work their magic.
The final step was for the seamstress to denote the hemline and bustle. She will be bringing it up about 3 inches since I'm wearing flat sandals. Although, given the lack of support in the sandals (I noted that the soles of my feet were not very happy, during the part where I was standing still for about 10 minutes while the seamstress measured and pinned the bustle and hemline), I may end up barefoot rather quickly. During all of this, Other Wife took a beautiful picture. I can't thank her enough.
So this is your first sneak preview of the actual dress and look. I am wearing the necklace and earrings that Hubs and Munchkin gave me for an early Wedding Present; and while this isn't exactly how my hair and makeup will look, since the professionals do a much better job, it will be up in a low bun, so you can kind of get an idea for the big day.
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