So, we went out looking for bridesmaid dresses yesterday. Two of my girls are home from spring break, my sister and a friend. So I was finally able to go look at some dresses, thank goodness. I want to get this done.
From the very beginning, my guidelines for the dresses have been same color, same fabric, and reasonably similar. And by that I basically told them I didn't want someone wereing a minidress and the other girls wearing a dress with sleeves that hIts the floor, lol. The same length would be nice. The most important thing to me is that these girls feel comfortable in the dresses that they are purchasing and that they have to wear while standing in front of everyone and for the whole day basically.
I was prepared for my sister to be incredibly annoying during this whole process becase that is just the way that she is. She is incredibly tiny and gorgeous and could literally rock a burlap sack, but of course she doesn't see herself that way. I can deal with that, altho at times it makes me want to strangle her...
Long story short, she basically started bawling in the middle of David's Bridal because I was "overwhelming" her because I was trying to explain to her that i didn't have a problem with her weARing a dress with straps that I wasn't exactly in love with if it meant that she would feel comfortable. She was trying to put words in my mouth that I wanted all the girls to wear the same dress which was absolutely not what I had ever said. And she was annoying me because my other BM looked horrible in the dress that my sister wanted because she is very busty. And I wasn't exactly going to tell my other BM that it was ok for her to be uncomfortable just to make my sister happy.
And the other horrible thing is that I really really do not like the dress my sister likes but it would be an extremely bad thing to tell her she can't wear it, which is probably why she's decided it's the one that she wants anyway. I swear she does things on purpose just to be mean to me.
THIS is the dress that my sister wants
and
THIS is the dress that my other BM and I both like
I think that if she wore that dress and the other girls wore the one dress or even another one like it they would look just fine. But even that is not good enough, in order for her to be happy she wants to make the other girls unhappy, because really she's the only one that counts.
And then I bought her lunch afterwards. Because I am a mature adult. And she is not. Lol.
ugh.