Just need to vent. My dress situation has got my anxiety on high alert. It has made me feel like all my paranoia is completely rational!
I got engaged in December '13 and I'm getting married October 18th. I picked, purchased and ordered my Mori Lee 1909 dress at the end of January (they took my measurements and asked me what size I wear -8- at that time). I was told it would come in at the end of May or early June. I called mid-June asking about it and they said it had been stuck in customs but should be in in a week or two. I called July 1st and they said "14 days, for sure" so I asked if I could go ahead and schedule my fitting. They suggested setting that up for the middle or end of August, but I 1) didn't feel comfortable with waiting that long and 2) don't have many free weekends because of showers, etc. So I scheduled it for this past Saturday, July 26. The dress finally arrived at the store just a couple days before my fitting.
As soon as I started pulling the dress up I could tell it was the wrong size. The whole point is that you want to take the dress in, so it felt immediately too tight. Turns out they ordered me a size 6 dress. I have not been a size 6 for many many years and I have 34DDD boobs to deal with, so that zipper did not go up very far. There was about a 5 inch gap. The dress has a built-in sash and a LOT of beading on an overlay, but the helpful attendant said, "oh we can let it out." I have been a SUPER chill bride during planning, but I'm sorry, you are not going to craft a 5 inch panel to add on to my $1000 dress that was not ordered correctly (I have not gained or lost any weight). Thankfully my mom was with me because I was shaking with disappointment and anxiety. My mom got on the phone with the owner and they are working to get me an appropriately sized dress from another More Lee seller in the US and it will *hopefully* be shipped to the store this week. Of course now I've got three back to back showers followed by a wisdom teeth surgical extraction for the next four weekends, so I'm going to have to take off work for a fitting. And since the first dress took 6-8 weeks longer to get in than they originally told me, I'm finding it hard to trust their estimates.
I am absolutely in love with my dress, and it was just really disappointing to get in for my first wedding dress fitting and feel like I'm too big or something. No one likes trying on clothes that are too small for them, so the combination of that self-consciousness and just the general anxiety about now having to find a dress was just really rough. I've still got over 2 months, but I'm so so so glad I didn't let them talk me into that late august fitting!
Now I'm going to call all of my vendors today just to make sure none of my other crazy anxiety dreams have come true in addition to the dress situation!