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I was driving myself nuts looking at dresses (I'm sure a lot of you know what I'm talking about).  I've been off work with an injury for several months so I've been on the internet WAAAAAY too much.  I thought I had an idea of what I wanted (I'm an older bride, rather short, curvy and have lots of tattoos so it had to look a certain way - go wrong in one direction and I could have looked like a circus sideshow, you know what I'm sayin'?) but when I tried dresses on that all went out the window......  The problem is I change my mind ALL THE FREAKING TIME!  Dresses I looked at six weeks ago that I saved photos of I look at NOW and go "oh my god NO!  What was I THINKING?" and of course I didn't want that to happen with my wedding dress so....... I saw a dress, I bought it.  DONE.

I knew I wanted to buy a used dress because I'm VERY frugal and I can't imagine spending thousands on something I will wear for only a few hours and this one was SUCH a good deal I couldn't pass it up......  it's by Watters.  I love the colour (it's called "sparrow"), and I feel that it is simple enough that I won't do that whole "oh my god!" thing in a few months (I tend to have "wacky" tastes most of the time)   It's silk satin (another thing I wanted and could NOT have afforded if I bought a new dress), brand new with tags, unsold stock from the store.  I think it should look okay on someone my height (five feet tall).  I want to take the belt and sash ends off and put a vintage black lace sash on. 

Oh, the best part - it was $200!  Yay!  Which is good because the alterations will probably be a lot to shorten it.

(oh, and uh, the next day I bought ANOTHER vintage dress too for the reception - I'll do another thread for that)

Thanks everyone for your kind words.......  I DO like the sash as is but I'm afraid it reminds me too much of sort of like the pope's robes or something - lol (I KNEW it looked like something and then my friend said "the pope" and I was like "ah-ha!  THAT'S what it looks like!"  That's all I think of when I see those ends hanging down now.)  Also I don't love that they're the same colour as the dress...... wish they were darker or pink or something......  other than that I just love it....

Here are some photos of what I was thinking of going for with the lace (and some lace I bought if I just went with a lace sash.....).

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