Friday, April 18, 2008

On the Way to a Wedding Dress - Part 2

A note from Myrna: When I first wrote about wedding dresses a couple of weeks ago, several friends graciously sent me stories and agreed to provide pictures (I only had to twist their arms a tiny bit).

Here are two (more to follow later):

From author Jennifer Stevenson:

It was 1973. My mother and I were shopping for my high school senior prom dress. I had spent most of my childhood in hand-me-downs, and this was only the second time we had ever bought clothes for me in, like, a real store. Senior prom was also my very first date. (I was a major geeky high school weirdo.)

We found this lovely Edwardian white lace thing for a mere $50 at a dress shop. My mother pounced on it, and it fit me. She bought it so fast, my head spun.

Four years later, I wore it as my wedding dress. D'ya think she had that in mind?

Jennifer Stevenson
THE BRASS BED April 29, 2008
Ballantine Books
http://www.jenniferstevenson.com/
http://smokingpigeon.livejournal.com/


And from author Lindsay Longford:

Me: barely 21, $100 for the entire wedding, no honeymoon planned because we didn't have any money. Other than the aforementioned $100, of course.

Yep. Those were the good ol' days, all right. Pre-Bridezilla, pre-many thousand dollar-extravaganzas.

They were also the days of Thin Me. 108-lb me. Yeah, definitely the good old days!

The Thin Me was able to fit into a very expensive, small-sized sample dress at one of the pricey department stores down south, and since the dress was soiled from the many try-ons and ripped, I was able to purchase this gorgeous, heavy peau de soie dress for $10. That's right: $10.

Cleaned and repaired, it saw me down the aisle with my homemade veil and into thirty-four years of mostly wedded bliss.

Best $10 I ever spent--and, like the gentleman groom, thank goodness, non-returnable.

Labels: guest blogging, wedding dresses

posted by Myrna Mackenzie @ 7:57 AM