Yesterday was wedding dress shopping day with my daughter Bethany. Her best friend Allison is her maid of honor came along, as well as her sisters Abigail and Jennifer, who are bridesmaids.
We went to a beautiful shop named Serendipity, at the suggestion of her maid of honor and I am so glad we did!
Our appointment was for 3:00 and we arrived on time. They let us in and the first thing they did was take our temperatures. Then we went to a hand sanitizing station to clean our hands. I appreciated the fact that they were following precautions.
Our sales associate gave us a quick tour then took us to the seating area with a small couch, two chairs, and a little table with bottled water and little beautifully decorated cupcakes!
Bethany was then taken to select dresses from the showroom. The rest of us chatted while we waited and before long the sales associate and the bride-to-be were back with arm loads of dresses. It was getting exciting!
Bethany soon came out of the dressing room in the first dress. Of course it was beautiful and she looked amazing in it. I really thought it might be ‘the one’ and kept searching her eyes for clues as to how she felt about it.
She did say it was very pretty and she felt pretty in it but I didn’t think it was ‘the dress’.
She went to change into dress #2. The associate came out to tell us that this was the dress Bethany really liked. We all hoped we liked it, too.
When you go dress shopping with your daughter you expect to feel certain things but it was different than I expected and I was a bit in awe of how certain Bethany was about what she wanted. I was impressed.
The second dress was perfect for her! It suited her figure beautifully and the dress had all the elements she had always dreamed of in a dress.
While we were pretty sure that was going to be ‘the dress’ we encouraged her to try on the remaining dresses because it had taken no time at all, it is fun to try on dresses, and of course there was always a chance there would be another dress she liked better.
She did like the remaining dresses but found something with each that crossed them off her list. All that was left was for her to try on ‘her dress’ one more time and say ‘Yes!’ to the dress!
After the decision was made, the business of measuring and paying for it came into play. Then it was time to celebrate with champagne and photos! It was all a lot of fun and made it feel like the very special day it was.