merrymunky
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Following on from some thoughts expressed in a thread I created this morning I have made an addition to my bridal party.
For months now my bridesmaids were all planned nicely, dresses bought etc etc.
Then we had a crisis where the dresses suddenly didn''t fit them anymore.
A bit of background info on the situation:
Up until today, my bridesmaids were my three neices. One is aged 9, the other two are fast approaching 13. That was all. We bought their dresses in March. The younger girl has a flowergirl style dress, the older two, a prom style dress. It took us a lot of ringing around to find the style of dress we wanted in the right sizes. Eventually after much harrassing of the poor sales lady in BHS, we managed to locate a dress in age 13 for one of the older girls as the age 12 was too snug back then and she needed room to grow.
So one of them stuck with the age 12, and we managed to get the age 13 for the bigger girl.
Well, as you can imagine, 12 year old girls grow and "develop" at a rate on knots and now both of them are now too big for their dresses. The one who WAS wearing an age 12 now fits into the age 13 dress and the one who WAS to wear the age 13 now needs an age 14 dress.
After much stress and phoning round again, we managed to locate an age 14 in the Oxford St, London store. They won''t send it out to a local store though so if we want it, we have to trek to London to collect it. BAH!
My poor mother is in the process of trying to arrange collection of the dress. It looks like the bridesmaid''s mother may be able to drive out there to get it. It is a 2.5 hour drive to London from here. Bless her.
So although the crisis is not completely averted, it is on its way to a resolution. Let''s just hope they don''t grow any MORE in the coming 5 weeks before the wedding otherwise we are screwed.
But besides all this, much as I love and adore my nieces, I have been wondering WHY I didn''t ask my close friend to be bridesmaid also. Initially we were keeping the cermeony to family only but recently decided to add some very close friends into the mix. So the first on my reserve list was my closest friend of recent years. I started thinking about it and realised that it might look odd if I don''t have any adult bridesmaids. Plus, I haven''t seen this girl much recently due to work committments and lack of cash for nights out etc. We are very close ad very much alike in our thinking, even though she has a whole separate cricle of friends aside from me. We met at work about 2 years ago and formed a close bond and can confide in each other about anything. She often tells me that she sometimes feels closer to me than her old group of best friends that she has known since school.
Well, I bit the bullet this evening and asked her if she sould like to be my chief bridesmaid. In short? She almost cried she was so happy. Which makes me EVEN MORE EXCITED to be getting married knowing she is in the party and will be with me all day!
So now we face the dilemma of finding her a dress. As my colour scheme is ivory, red and black we think a nice black cocktail length dress which will set her apart from the three girls in red would be a good option.
I have no idea if we will find a good one here in the UK in time.
But talk about creating more work and stress eh?
My Mum will be ordering an additional bouquet tomorrow for her. It will match the other bridesmaid ones but we will be adding diamante pins to hers to make it a little more special given her status.
I can''t wait. I feel that the wedding will be even more special now knowing that it will bring me and my friend back together again. My hen night will be on her birthday too so we''re having a joint celebration!
For months now my bridesmaids were all planned nicely, dresses bought etc etc.
Then we had a crisis where the dresses suddenly didn''t fit them anymore.
A bit of background info on the situation:
Up until today, my bridesmaids were my three neices. One is aged 9, the other two are fast approaching 13. That was all. We bought their dresses in March. The younger girl has a flowergirl style dress, the older two, a prom style dress. It took us a lot of ringing around to find the style of dress we wanted in the right sizes. Eventually after much harrassing of the poor sales lady in BHS, we managed to locate a dress in age 13 for one of the older girls as the age 12 was too snug back then and she needed room to grow.
So one of them stuck with the age 12, and we managed to get the age 13 for the bigger girl.
Well, as you can imagine, 12 year old girls grow and "develop" at a rate on knots and now both of them are now too big for their dresses. The one who WAS wearing an age 12 now fits into the age 13 dress and the one who WAS to wear the age 13 now needs an age 14 dress.
After much stress and phoning round again, we managed to locate an age 14 in the Oxford St, London store. They won''t send it out to a local store though so if we want it, we have to trek to London to collect it. BAH!
My poor mother is in the process of trying to arrange collection of the dress. It looks like the bridesmaid''s mother may be able to drive out there to get it. It is a 2.5 hour drive to London from here. Bless her.
So although the crisis is not completely averted, it is on its way to a resolution. Let''s just hope they don''t grow any MORE in the coming 5 weeks before the wedding otherwise we are screwed.
But besides all this, much as I love and adore my nieces, I have been wondering WHY I didn''t ask my close friend to be bridesmaid also. Initially we were keeping the cermeony to family only but recently decided to add some very close friends into the mix. So the first on my reserve list was my closest friend of recent years. I started thinking about it and realised that it might look odd if I don''t have any adult bridesmaids. Plus, I haven''t seen this girl much recently due to work committments and lack of cash for nights out etc. We are very close ad very much alike in our thinking, even though she has a whole separate cricle of friends aside from me. We met at work about 2 years ago and formed a close bond and can confide in each other about anything. She often tells me that she sometimes feels closer to me than her old group of best friends that she has known since school.
Well, I bit the bullet this evening and asked her if she sould like to be my chief bridesmaid. In short? She almost cried she was so happy. Which makes me EVEN MORE EXCITED to be getting married knowing she is in the party and will be with me all day!
So now we face the dilemma of finding her a dress. As my colour scheme is ivory, red and black we think a nice black cocktail length dress which will set her apart from the three girls in red would be a good option.
I have no idea if we will find a good one here in the UK in time.
But talk about creating more work and stress eh?
My Mum will be ordering an additional bouquet tomorrow for her. It will match the other bridesmaid ones but we will be adding diamante pins to hers to make it a little more special given her status.
I can''t wait. I feel that the wedding will be even more special now knowing that it will bring me and my friend back together again. My hen night will be on her birthday too so we''re having a joint celebration!
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