David's Bridal

I think I'll start posting all of my fun wedding planning experiences from here on out. Starting with my first excursion trying on dresses. I called and made an appointment with David's Bridal while I was in StL for the memorial weekend. I'm not someone who spends a lot of time on trying on clothing at malls etc.

Let me start off with what happened as we were about to walk into the megaplex of bridal dress stores...

Sara, Laura, my mom, and I were enjoying the nice sunny day when a very unhappy woman/bride to be (she was roughly 28 tops) comes stomping out all huffy like with another gal following (maid of honor?). Immediately she scrounges through her purse pulling out cigarettes and while flicking the lighter she goes into a rant, "I set an appointment for 2 o'clock!" Her friend nods acknowledging her remark. We walked into the store just as we heard her begin to offload all of her problems.

While standing at the front reception desk the unhappy customer from outside comes storming back in. A person we would assume is her mom asks if she would like to try on more dresses. "I DON'T WANT TO TRY ON ANYMORE DRESSES... (yelling even louder) I JUST WANT MY BRIDESMAIDS TO GET FITTED!!!" It took all we had not to start laughing. I felt like I had just watched a live mini episode of Bridezillas.

The front desk ladies seemed nice enough. They told me the lady would would be assisting us was helping another customer and would be with us in a moment. They told us to begin looking around. We began just taking a couple of dresses that looked nice off the rack. Apparently this is not what you are supposed to do as we were reprimanded moments later by the DB worker who we had the appointment with. We were off to a really great start.

To make the rest of the story short I was only able to try on 10 dresses in like one and a half hours. The lady helping was very rude and didn't listen to what style of dress I was looking for. She was far more interested in the other bride that she was helping. Don't get me wrong I was fine with her helping someone else but, she was being nice to them but completely rude to us. Maybe we were just a poor match but even so you would think a sales person would be professional and want to get a commission.

No, I do not love David's Bridal. Or at least not that David's Bridal.

*sigh* the weekend

So, this was Nick's and my first weekend at home post engagement. It was nice to sit on the couch. Sleep. Watch a couple of movies. Eat Chinese food. Do laundry. Make our dog Tobie drink Hydrogen Peroxide in order to get him to vomit up all of the amoxicillin he ate that were for Matilda's urinary tract infection(she had 14 days worth of meds for it and she was only on day 2 when Tobie ate the rest). This happened on Friday night. Needless to say we were pretty worried about him but, it seemed as though it was pretty much out of his system after the initial round of vomiting. I ran out early on Saturday to go by the vet's office to pick up replacement meds for Matilda and some for Tobie. Thankfully he is all better.

It's about time...

So, as many of you already know Nick and I are officially engaged to be married. We have joined this illustrious club that currently has many other friends in it. Seems like weddings are happening left and right.

Both of our families are very happy for us. I couldn't be more excited to be joining his family. I adore everyone and already feel like a part of the family. Nick and I are very excited though, we aren't in a super rush to start planning and getting stressed out about the details. We're thinking a small intimate wedding possibly a destination wedding. I was thinking about a parade with some elephants and penguins maybe... belly dancers...