Ok, just offically got engaged. However, in my girly ooh pretty goodness, plus having a friend getting married and now in bridesmaid dress shopping, I found
http://martinmccrea.com/essence/ and I do not care that it's over a year early. This is THE dress, 110% for me. Covered and modest for the ceremony and what the needs are for that, then take the lace top part off and have a fun and girly slip dress to party the night away. The slip dress won't be floor length on me, but it'll be long enough to be formal. I'm way too tall, so finding a long enough dress was going to be hard or impossible.
Yup, already bought it today. I'm never going to find something that I love more than this, so I'm not going to waste my time. Plus, I've not changed sizes in so long, so I'm comfortable with that. And even if I do start to gain, I have the best reason to make sure to get the weight back off!
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