Wedding Dress Friday!

Kelly is doing a "Show Us Your Wedding Dress" party...

which I'll do with a little hesitation...

Because I hate my wedding dress.

Not kidding. At the time it seemed "fine" so I wore it. I had been engaged to another guy very briefly but had purchased my dress. It had been put away for a couple of years and then I met Dan. He proposed and we set a date - for ELEVEN weeks later. I planned my entire wedding in less than 3 months!!

My parents offered to buy me a new dress but I thought it would be no big deal to wear what I had and that way a lot of time and money would be saved. Dan didn't care either way. I did love parts of my dress - the back bustled up into a bouquet of roses that I thought was so pretty. But from the time I bought it to the time of wearing it, it just wasn't "me" anymore. But my veil... the top was heavily beaded and very sparklie, which I loved.

See...it's ok. Just not..."WOW."

But I was so happy to marry Dan that I would've done it in a potato sack if I had to. The dress was just means to do it in. I have it in the basement all preserved - I'm thinking of having the fabric cut to make Lauren's baptism dress out of when she turns 8. Sorry for the lack of pictures - you don't even want to get me started on my photographer! The day was by no means perfect, but God's choice of who I should marry was. That was all that mattered to me!

Thanks for stopping by! And sorry about the fonts - something funky is going on with my blog today and it won't show any fonts to change so somehow I'm getting a sampler of them!