The place where I ordered my dress has a policy where you pick it up 2 weeks from the date it comes in. Under some circumstances they will extend your pick up date a reasonable length of time. Well, I ordered the dress in August in my home town where we will be having our wedding. I was told my dress would be in October 30th. Okay fine, I will be in town for Thanksgiving that should be a reasonalbe amount of time for an extension...Low and behold my dress comes in almost two months early! I live across the country and cannot come home any time I please. Now, they want my mother to pick it up (obviously without me trying it on) or have it shipped. I know you're thinking where is the problem? I ordered a petite dress under the advisement of my consultant because of the style of the dress being hard to shorten and the fact that I am kinda short (5'3" which is the very tallest girl they recommend petite for). She had also told me when it comes in I can come try it on before we decide to take it home and if it is too short we can send that one back and order a regular dress. Now, that plan is not possible because I won't be home til November and do not have the time or money to fly home before then. Just really frustrated...any words of wisdom? I feel a lot better now that I have vented about that but am still too worked up to logically come up with a better plan than calling and begging them to help me out lol.