So I'm more of a lurker, but I post occasionally, and I thought you ladies would appreciate this one:
So I went MOB dress shopping with my mom a little bit ago - she's a larger woman, and there's a dress store she has bought many fancy dresses from so she knows them and trusts them. So we walk in the store and are greeting by a very nice consultant; she asks if I'm the bride, and once I say yes she says, "So what are we looking to put mom in today?"
I wish I could say that I was taken aback that she wasn't asking my mother this, but having lurked here plenty I realized that this poor consultant had probably dealt with her share of snowflakes. I said, "Really, I just want my mother to feel comfortable and beautiful."
"Oh, what a nice bride!!" she said, incredibly sincerely.
We had fun looking at dresses and ended up finding a dress for mom, but they didn't have the color swatches for her to choose from - plus my dad is the best at picking out dresses for us (weird yes, but nonetheless true), so she had to come back in a week with my dad for "approval" and choose a color. Mom told me this weekend that all the consultants in the store were talking about me when they had gone back, that I had been so nice about letting my mom choose whatever she wanted to wear.
Those poor Mommies!