I never thought I would be posting here. I didn't even think I would be wearing a wedding dress. Our wedding is going to be very informal. We're getting married out in the country, having a quick 10 minute ceremony followed by a huge BBQ party. Everyone can bring whoever they want (new girlfriend and her kids etc.) no one is dressing up, we are not having rings, flowers or any other wedding stuff. A traditional, fancy wedding just isn't us. So since it's informal my future husband and I were planning on wearing dark jeans and white shoes, him a white t-shirt and me a nice white tank top. I'm not even wearing makeup or doing my hair in a different style than I normally wear. I had thought about wearing a wedding dress for a fleeting moment, but the only wedding dress I could think of wearing was one similar to my mom's dress. Sadly it was ruined in a flood shortly after my parents got married. The other reason I decided to forgo a dress (as stupid as it sounds) is that my mom died when I was young, and I can't bear the thought of dress shopping without her.
Yesterday my soon to be sister in law brought me a surprise. She made me a dress. Seriously. She sews for a hobby and when she heard I wasn't going to have a dress because of the above reasons she decided to make me one. From scratch. She borrowed pics from my parents wedding and tried to emulate it. She mended a suit I had bought for a job interview so she had an idea of my size/measurements but I had no idea of her plan. Now the dress needs some nips and tucks because she hadn't been able to measure all of me. It looks pretty close to my mom's, except she used shantung and dark accents because the wedding is outside at a BBQ and it was less likely to stain that way. I couldn't get over how light it felt too, I thought I would be drowning in it. I cried. It was seriously the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. My dad was there and he cried too and my aunt and grandparents (mom's sister and parents) all cried too when they saw a picture.
So I have a dress now. I will looking around for ideas on how to accessorize and complete the look. I will also try to post a picture at some point, although not at the moment since my future husband reads here and I want it to be a surprise.