Well, I've found myself hoping that my friend decides this is NOT the year for her to get married! Week one of my new life just didn't start out the way I had hoped and I only have about 40 weeks to go! I'm not sure how I'm going to catch up without finding myself running everywhere I go! Maybe one weekend I'll just have to walk to Port, or Tlell. Or maybe I just need to be more specific about my goal... Hmmm... Maybe the answer is to find a dress I want to fit into... or a dress that will fit me!
One thing I love about my bride is that she has good taste! So I know she isn't going to make me wear a pumpkin orange dress with ruffle sleeves. My fear is that she will make me wear something uniform and I will not stand out from the others :P Not that I want to stand out, but come on, lets be real here, this will be the closest position I have reached to being a bride, I wanna look my best, and I want others to notice!
For someone who has worn a dress only on the occasions that I spent in a long line up of bridesmaids, I have no idea what would look good on a figure such as mine. So to keep in light of my new positive outlook I googled "maid of honor dresses for short women". The fact of the matter is I'm short and I will never be able to change that! SO, the google gods tell me that I should be wearing an empire waist that trails into an A-line skirt.... for whatever that means! So I decided to just to look at dresses and pick some out I think I'd like to wear.
We'll start with this one. I can see myself in this dress, and I can confidently say I would be comfortable in it. I can most definitely see myself cutting the bow off the waist! One of the tips I seen on some other blogs was that if your short then you should wear all one color since it gives you the illusion of being taller. So maybe this wouldn't be the best choice for my circumstance, but it sure is pretty :) I think the bride would think it was suitable and typically me... and I'm almost certain she is going to ask me to stray from my traditional choices of black and grey. My argument for this dress would be that its "shiny" which has count for something considering I normally wear cotton or ... hell, cotton! This is a definite maybe... and I'd like it in size 10 please :)
The next dress is something I think she will want me to wear. You know, something youthful and sexy and does not say to anyone "we are 10 years late at walking down this isle". Definitely no offence to the bride! I'm just saying we've both been with our men for over 10 years! I'm not sure I can pull something like this off even if I was a size 10! I'd have to double up on the spanx, buy a corset and maybe even start jogging everyday like I planned! One thing I will say is that the color would look absolutely stunning on me! The more I look at the dress, the more I think that little train in the back would call far too much attention to my feet! How horrible that would be to have to find the perfect shoe! Gawd, I haven't worn a nice shoe in my life! That is way too much pressure and I can see myself messing up my Maid of Honor speech because I was too worried about my feet.... no... this won't do!
In light of the fact that the wedding is a Halloween wedding, I thought this dress would be perfect!!! Isn't it just the coolest! It looks like a butterfly :) I can sport one of those masquerade masks and flutter around the hall. Although this dress also requires I double up on the spanx I kind of think people won't notice the body in the dress, but the dress itself! Which means... I can order a size 12 or 14 and erase the guilt I feel for only jogging twice this week instead of five times! AS for the BINGO wings flappin in the breeze... well heck, they almost go with the dress! The bridesmaids are going to be soooo jealous! The best part of all is that the dress is so beautiful that no one would notice my shoes! Even better, I could wear a little pair of black flats and not have to make a total ass of myself trying to wear heels :D Now... I wonder how much a Luly Yang from Seattle dress costs??? The name sounds expensive! How ever am I ever going to pay for it??
Its settled... I'm going to send this picture to the bride, and beg she can understand my... "short" situation.
The next dress is something I think she will want me to wear. You know, something youthful and sexy and does not say to anyone "we are 10 years late at walking down this isle". Definitely no offence to the bride! I'm just saying we've both been with our men for over 10 years! I'm not sure I can pull something like this off even if I was a size 10! I'd have to double up on the spanx, buy a corset and maybe even start jogging everyday like I planned! One thing I will say is that the color would look absolutely stunning on me! The more I look at the dress, the more I think that little train in the back would call far too much attention to my feet! How horrible that would be to have to find the perfect shoe! Gawd, I haven't worn a nice shoe in my life! That is way too much pressure and I can see myself messing up my Maid of Honor speech because I was too worried about my feet.... no... this won't do!
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