I got my dress! AW PIP

tyleet87

So I went to DB tonight after work and I took my dress back to exchange for a different one. Quick back-story: I bought the original dress because I fell in love with a dress when I was 15 and was hoping I could turn the dress I bought into something similar. Well after owning it for almost 7 months and meeting with a seamstress who dashed my dreams of turning it into a strapless dress I decided it really wasn't going to turn out anything like the dress I had envisioned I actually gave up on the idea completely and was ok with it. My next idea was just to find a beautiful dress that I loved. Well I had to go back to DB to exchange my dress and pick another. I tried on 3 dresses. One was made in a wrinkly material and was not very cute and here are the other two:

Runner up:




MY DRESS!




I love this dress 100x more than my original dress. I'm so happy with it. Please excuse my face and messed up hair. I actually went to the DR today because I couldn't breathe this morning and I can't stop sneezing and my throat itches. Well apparently I'm having an allergic reaction to something. I can't imagine what it could be though. So I'm a mess. :P

CAB1217

I love it! Sooooo pretty!!!!

kyrgyzstan

Congrats on finding the one!

BinxRose

Lovely!

Irishcurls

Congrats!! I kind of want to see the orginal dress, I don't even know what I would have wanted when I was 15!

Sammy0709

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_got-dress-aw-pip?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:13Discussion:52d47d75-7f7f-4e7d-b495-d78e8254ae48Post:c2ca4c5a-6fa7-46d1-8f41-c72752bd0391">Re: I got my dress! AW PIP</a>:
[QUOTE]Congrats!! I kind of want to see the orginal dress, I don't even know what I would have wanted when I was 15!
Posted by Irishcurls[/QUOTE]



I thought I knew at 15 and gosh it was ugly. The teacher paired everyone up in 8th grade home ec and made us plan weddings...awkward.

kara811

Pretty! I still wish we can see the first dress you had 

BinxRose

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_got-dress-aw-pip?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:13Discussion:52d47d75-7f7f-4e7d-b495-d78e8254ae48Post:1f3e2286-f832-4166-92c4-09fa9125eb33">Re: I got my dress! AW PIP</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I got my dress! AW PIP :

I thought I knew at 15 and gosh it was ugly. The teacher paired everyone up in 8th grade home ec and made us plan weddings...awkward.
Posted by Sammy0709[/QUOTE]



Haha I had to do that in 8th grade too! We "got married" and "had kids." Good thing I was actually kind of friends with my "husband."

crownsuperstar

Very pretty dress.

HAA we had to carry around eggs what were our babies.  I put mine in my locker and it broke.   Oops.  Needless to say I didn't do so well in our "family" class. 

Sammy0709

Binx - I got stuck with the kid that ate his own boogers.

AmandaSC1988

Pretty dress!

I got married in 9th grade. Except there were more guys than girls in the class and I got 2 husbands....YESSS.

firemedicrr

ty- it's really pretty! I hope your allergic reaction isn't to your dress! that'd be awful.


amanda- your comment made me lol.

Zimsgirl

Very pretty!

BinxRose

Sammy- Ew. Amanda- ahh that made me laugh! Hooray for polyandry haha!

calindi

I love it!!!!  Honestly, I like it a lot better than your runner-up - the runner-up seems to wear you, but you're totally rocking your dress.  And if I do say so, the tulle ballgown reminds me of my dress!

amh04

Very pretty! Congrats on finding the dress!

curlyfrymsu

Ohh beautiful!! I love it.  We had to get "married" in 8th grade too, but it was by lottery...you'd draw out of a hat for your job and single/married status, some people would wind up single and others would be married...I wound up as a single teacher, haha

calindi

Also, I went to private school, so no home-ec and no fake marriages/babies.  In some ways it's good, but I think they could have done a "real life" class of some sort, teaching kids to manage budgets, how scary credit cards are, how to cook basic meals, etc.

Danidawn20

YAY!!! that is a very pretty dress

SamiJoeB

Very Nice!!! I Love it!!

C-I know what you mean... I feel like they should REALLY prepare you for life as an adult.. not to carry around and egg or pretend to be "married".  Credit cards, budget planning, Mortgages and stuff... I wish I'd known about that stuff in HS...

AmandaSC1988

C- when I got "married" it was in my personal fiance class. That assigment we learned to manage a budget (with the opposite sex)...each week for a month we were given scenario... kids are born...lost job...husband dies, and we had to change our budget to reflect those things.  I learned a lot on of practical information in that class, I wish all kids were required to take that class, people would learn how to manage money before they get into trouble.

tyleet87

Thanks everyone!

This was my dream dress that I have loved for almost 10 years:




And I tried looking at DB online and this was the only dress I found that resembles the one I originally bought. I swear this isn't what it looked like but it has to be the dress because I can't find another one that looks anything like it. Clicky

tyleet87

Oh and they got married in 2004 so it's only been 8 years or so.