Weddingbee boards

Seriously.  This is ALL I do lately (dress search online and call places to try and find said dresses and get price quotes).  Plus I'm on summer break from school and working only temp  job stuff so I have more time than I would normally... which is good, because I REALLY need to decide on a dress before school starts again (end of August)...

But yeah... I can see my family groaning every time I say "hey, what do you think of THIS one" or "do you think I can pull off pink?" or something along those lines.  I dream of dresses at night.  I reconstruct them in my head before falling asleep, mixing the bodice of one with the skirt of another and imagine various wraps and boleros and shrugs and shoe combinations. 

Then, I get mad and frustrated and say I am sick of it and done with the whole mess and I will just wear whatever I feel like wearing on the day that's already in my closet, when I get tired of looking online and tired of trying to find things local to try on and having no luck.  Then I get over it and start all over again.  I am officially obsessed but I know everyone around me wishes I'd just find my dress and get over it alraedy.  Well everyone but our 7 year old DD.  She loves them ALL.

@Georgia Bee:  Yeah but I want to try on the ones I like and I've found online.  Do you think I should just go try on whatever they bring me?  Maybe I should.

Thanks everyoene, at least I know I am not alone!!  I will drive y'all crazy betweeen now and September so brace yourselves! ha!

@Monny:  Geez, I ws hoping there was an end in sight!  I'm hoping that when I get mine I can move on to other wedding things that I'm totally ignoring! lol!  I will have school too though so I need to get busy.

@sillykar:  Well I know my FI is excited for me in the dress process but has no clue really and thinks EVERYTHING is awesome.  My brother ges the same answer when he calls and asks what I'm doing.. "Looking at dresses! What else!?"

the ressure is coming from ME because I know how long I have to decide and it's only until around the 1st of September which causes me to panic. 

@Laura27:  Have you gone out and just tried on whatever they happen to have?  My reasoning for not having done that is that I am VERY freakin' picky about what I have in mind and I am super doubtful they'll have anything like it or if they do it will not be in a size that is anywhere close to mine (bridal 18)..

Now my latest tactic is to go through all the weddingbee posts that talk about lower priced designers and make a list, and now I am going through those designer's sites one by one and saving pics of anything I like. 

My hard drive can't take it!

@amandasherman:  You know, this is almost the same as when FI and I were shopping for a HOUSE!  LOL!  I drove everyone nuts.  Esp. my mom.  I sent her pics on the phone of potential houses CONSTANTLY and I think we looked at close to 50 or 60.  It was exhausting and ridiculous but finally we found "the one".  I think my real estate agent was ready to kiss us both when we finally said yes (to the house) because I was sooooooo picky but with a TINY budget.   Gee, just like this dress thing!

@fitzly:  I am so very thankful for wedding bee... especially in the 3am dress shopping hours when I can come here and go on and on (even if I am mostly talking to myself at that hour)!!

@farmersdaughter:  Again I think I have found "the one" but can't find it to try on locally so I am making a note of all the key features it has and going to try on similar dresses... tomorrow.  Well hopefully tomorrow.  I have to call and see, but keep putting it off. ;)

@PaperCrane:  I'm sure that's next!  Luckily (for me? for them? we are having something of a destination wedding... not in the usual sense.. but either way we are marryign out of state and keeping it really simple.  The church doesn't allow decorations and the "reception" will simply be dinner out somewhere since we have such a small guest list (probably 12 to 20 people max).. I think that's probably all a good thing since there are less details to figure out.  I still have to figure out the ceremony and figure out what everyone is wearing though (FI and our 3 kids) which will be more of this insanity!

@beckiesue:  It's hilarious.  I first fell in love with one dress in particular that had a gorgeous 30's feel and I declared my love for it constantly even though my gut told me it wouldn't work with my body type well AND I was secretly sad at it's lack of WOW... it is a lovely and beautiful dress but I always imagined something with more of a ballgown-once-in-a-lifetime quality.  This dress has a cut/style that is actually more like something i would wear every day (but not with a train, obviously)... so not as "bridal" as I'd dreamed.  So then I found another and it was cheaper and I nicknamed it 'the betrayer' because I had developed this weird LOYALTY to the first dress.  That's crazy talk, I know! 

Now here I am with a totally new obsession and this one has remained "the one" for more than 24 hours and I have lost my desire to look at others so maybe it is??  LOL   I still have to go do some trying on.  I am the worst about procrastinating on that!!