It's funny. As much as I didn't enjoy shopping for dresses - largely because the samples were huge, and assistants kept recommending that I tried on dresses that I knew wouldn't work on me and suggesting extra alterations - I'm in such a withdrawal phase. I wonder if it's because I feel like my dress shopping experience was a bit of a let down, when the media had built it up in to being such a wonderful experience. I had to go by myself, because I don't have any girl friends here who I'm close enough to to invite (if they're not invited to the wedding, I'm sure as hell not going to ask them to dress shop with me), and I really missed having Mum there (although she passed 13 years ago, I should be used to going through big events without her) or at least one or other of my stand in MOBs. I think I've got shoes organized now, and ordered a bag, but I want to put off the rest of the accessory shopping until I get the dress back and see it again.
It's probably also made worse because I can't do any of that vendor stuff, and have my family members sending me endless emails about cakes. I have the venue and the photographer down. Still hashing out details with the florist, but I'm going really minimal with the bouquets (has anyone seen the price of these in Sydney recently?) but it's such a minimal process.
We're waiting on the engagement photos because my face has suddenly decided it belongs to a thirteen year old and is acting accordingly. I'm really hoping I'll be in a position to get them done in the next few weeks, so that we can use them on our STD cards, but we've been waiting on them at this point for about four months. Skin seems to be slightly improving now.
Do I just need more wedding related stuff to keep me busy? I feel like I'm still too far out to pare down the prelim guest list, and FI still has no idea who he's even inviting, let alone who's likely to turn up.
Did anyone else go through major wedding shopping withdrawal?