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Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, March 01, 2004 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Froggie, when you gonna tell us what you really paid for the dress? I'm dying here . . .

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Monday, March 01, 2004 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pssst GAL, it's at the end of her paragraph in white.

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Monday, March 01, 2004 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry you missed my secret message in white, lol. I won it for $305 including shipping. The lady I won it from runs a bridal shop in Arkansas and was really super sweet! I'm expecting it sometime this week...yay!

And a little update...I spoke with a very knowledgeable woman at the bridal show I went to on Saturday about how to store my dress until my wedding a year and a half from now (LOL). She recommended storing it in a breathable garment bag deep in a closet where no light could hit it, and to try my best to not disturb it (by trying it on or oogling it...like I would do that?!?). I told her my main concern was it yellowing and she told me it's our body oils, sweat, body lotions, etc. transfering onto the frabric that causes the yellowing. I also asked her about possibly storing it in a cedar closet, and the only thing that had her worried was the smell of the cedar getting into the dress, but that if I wanted to go that route, removing it from the cedar closet a month or two before the wedding should air the dress out enough to get rid of the cedar smell. Soooooo...I think I'm going to keep it here for a few weeks so I can let the important people see me in it, then it's getting zipped up in the garment bag and being sent down to DF's parents cedar closet where it will remain until I decide to get it altered then steamed and pressed for my big day! The woman was really informative about dress preservation too, so to thank her for all her help, I'm going to give her my business and let her clean and preserve my gown for me after my wedding.


Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My dress arrived today!!! It was packed so beautifully in the garment bag, I didn't want to disturb it...but I did anyway, lol. The beading on it is to die for! There is even some bead work on the skirt that I had no idea was there. I called my mom and had her high-tail it on over. It took two of us to carry it upstairs and two of us to get me in the thing! It is a VERY close fit! Will still need tweaking in the bodice to make it fit perfect, but I expected that. The skirt length is also VERY close to perfect. Depending on the heel height and whether or not the shoe has a bit of a platform to it, it may be alright. But I'm not sure if sky-high heels are the way to go on my wedding day. I'd rather be comfortable in a normal sized heeled shoe...which means the skirt will have to be altered. I'm confident that it will all turn out ok. It has too!

Getting it back in the garment bag was a headache, but we did it. For the time being it is laying flat under my bed, out of the light and away from the baseboards. The work it takes to get the dress out and then back into the garment bag is hopefully enough of a deterrent to keep me from wanting to try it on every other day!

Thanks to all of you who had advice through this whole dress-buying event. I appreciate it. Everything worked out!



Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Froggie, I am soooooooo happy for you!! The perfect dress for the perfect bride for the perfect day!!!!!!!!!!!

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you are right about a breathable bag, too. plastic will 'rot' the dress over time. a lot of people put a white sheet over the dress and just store it that way. i also read you cannot hang it from the shoulder straps or whatever, because it will stretttccchhhhhh out, ruining the top and making the dress long and narrow.
who knows? maybe more people could have fit into their mom's wedding dresses...mom wasn't really taller and slimmer than us, the dress grew that way over the years!:-)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Froggie, you brought tears to my eyes reading your post! I remember the excitement 20 years ago when I first tried on my dress. I still get chills! Enjoy!!

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoohoo Froggie how exciting! I am so happy for you! Sounds so beautiful!

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks all! It's so cool to know you guys are excited right along with me!

Today DF, my dad and I all meet with the manager of my reception hall to go over a few things and ask a few (ok, I already have a list of 20!) questions. It's been a while since I've been inside the hall so I needed a refresher before my parents plunked down the deposit. My cousin is using the same hall for her reception this September, and I dreams of me walking in and hating how everything looked - that dream made me call the manager the next day to schedule this appointment, lol! I wanted to also schedule our consultation with our (possible) photographer today to put together a package and talk costs, but DF thought he'd be wedding'd out after the reception hall meeting, so I cut him some slack.

I can't wait to get this meeting over, then once we book our photographer, planning is done until this October...thank God! Hopefully one of my cousins (I'm in both weddings) will have a great florist, baker, and DJ and I can just book those same people, lol!

I want to say thanks, too, for letting me blab here about this wedding. You have no idea how much it helps.


Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Froggie, gorgeous dress!! Great price, too!!! You smart shopper, you! Just as a reminder, I realize you mentioned a cedar closet for storage, but I wanted to say something about cedar chests here that other post-ers might not know. The literature that came with my cedar chest stated that nothing other than fabric or paper should be stored in anything lined with cedar. This means that plastic (like a garment bag) would be a no-no if you're hanging your dress in a cedar-lined closet.

You also cannot store anything with electronic components in a cedar chest or in a cedar-lined closet. Plastic will leach the oil out of the cedar, making the wood lose its beautiful fragrance and protective properties over time, and the oil in the cedar would damage the components in a piece of electronic equipment (like a calculator, for example--not that it'd be something you'd put in there, but it was mentioned in the paperwork, lol). The cedar oil might also cause the plastic to break down and damage the fabric of your dress or other things you have stored.

Would you consider storing the dress in a large plastic under-bed storage box? The plastic box would be airtight and should protect the dress from odors, staining, bugs, dust, etc. You might wrap it in a solid white cotton sheet first in order to protect the dress from possible exposure to sunlight. I have a couple of storage boxes that are the entire width of a double-bed, so I think that might be long enough to store your wedding dress without even having to fold it.

Great wedding stories, everyone!



Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Monday, March 22, 2004 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Sia! Now about the storage of my dress...I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do with it. It's still in the plastic garment bag it was shipped in laying flat under my bed. I'm going to be buying a cloth-like garment bag - something breathable - since that's what was recommended to me. So if it gets put into the cedar closet it will not be in the plastic but in the cloth garment bag instead. So far I've been a good girl and haven't taken it out to try it on since that day it was delivered. If it wasn't such a pain in the butt to get it back into the garment bag I'd probably have it on every day! Thanks for you're concern though Sia!

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
what's wrong with smelling like cedar? i love that smell! now, mothballs would be another matter entirely :-)

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hardcore I need some help, guys. Colossus and I went to visit the chapel at which we've (now) decided to be married - it was built in 1880, beautiful masonry, seats 75, has a great deal of history attached, including Abe Lincoln and a number of late 1800's, early 1900's notables. Tiffany stained glass windows, seats 75. We'll be having our reception at one of the mansions on the grounds, I believe. Anyway, Colossus loves the entire area and the history of it, and has decided he wants to dress in period for the wedding. Which means I need to investigate late Victorian and Edwardian tuxedo-wear and the various styles relating to the time of day. I've found this Edwardian era tux, and Ralph Lauren makes a version of it now. I was hoping with everyone's investigative skills, we might be able to give Colossus a number of different styles to consider. We are not firm on the time of day for wedding, so anything goes at this point. Here's the one I found:

Edwardian tuxedo

Of course, finding a picture is one thing - locating it for purchase or rental is another . . .

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's what appears to be a modern version of this tux:

Somerset cutaway

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is the altar of the tiny chapel at which we will marry - photograph by Colossus. I'm not sure whether in the crunching process all the detail will come out:

Altar

Actually, now that I see it a lot of of the detail is lost, you can see the detail of the Tiffany stained glass windows on the original, but what the hey. We love it.

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Me too, GAL! I love the history of it all.

We need a date, you know .


Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL that looks like a beautiful intimate setting. Great choice.

Spygirl
Member

04-23-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gal, that is beautiful!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, guys!! We're thrilled. Halfunit, it's October 16 and the panic is setting in. Wink, with all your gardening skills and your practiced eye at arranging le flora, do you think you could convinced the owner to remove the big bush from in front of the entrace? It's making Colossus wild.

chapel

He got on her about it when we visited, she said it provides a good windbreak for the chapel. Colossus says it's a chapel, not a stable, it doesn't need a windbreak get rid of the frickin' bush. LOL!!

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<...GAL...gimme directions...I've got a truck and a chain...>

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROTF Halfunit!!! LOLOL - Colossus said if he disappears in the middle of the night for 7 hours and all of a sudden there are reports of minor vandalism up on the chapel hill, to pay it no mind. I don't know NUTHIN!!

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Halfunit brilliant idea and since you have "connections" perhaps you'll get off with a slap on the wrist or some simple community service pulling weeds somewhere.

Is Colossus' objection to the bushes because they limit the area immediately outside the door of the church for greeting your guests after the ceremony or because they aren't pleasing to his eye?

Since it's likely those shrubs have been there a very long time and will still be there by the wedding day, why not just let them be a backdrop for some beautiful baskets of harvest decorations like colourful mums and gourds, that will distract the guests as they come up the drive? Martha would probably weave some beautiful filmy silk fabric that complements your colour scheme thru the bushes and intersperse them with bunches of elegant fall flowers.

And by the wedding day Colossus will have eyes only for his bride so I bet he won't even notice the bushes are there.

Colossus
Member

10-04-2003

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Folks weaving their way thru the maze is not my idea of a well planted entrance. Perhaps 50 years ago, when they were new, it looked nice. But that's where I want the wedding party to stand for an after shot. Screw the other decoration. I'm usng the place because of it's beauty. Not the F---g shrubs. Beside; how are attendees going to throw rice at GAL with the "Natural Windbreak" to keep the horses warm, In the way.!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOLOL - I meant to warn you he was coming. LOLOL. The man is hostile, I tell you. And it's all because of that bush.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 9:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wink - if the shrub survives, I'll probably wind up going with your suggestions and try to make a Martha Monument of it. LOLOL. PS Colossus means "birdseed" instead of rice, truly he does. LOL.