Adventure of the bride to be: dress alterations

Tuesday my mother and I took off bright and early to Paducah to run some errands before my late morning appointment at David's Bridal to get my wedding dress alterations.  Little did we know that we would be spending the entire day at Paducah!

 When we got into the dressing room is when the trouble started.  When I last was at David's I tried on lots of dresses, found the one that was exactly what I wanted, rang the bell, and left a happy camper.  In that big dress bag, it contained all the undergarments I would need to wear this dress on the day.  Well, when I put the dress back on Tuesday, you could see my bra in the back. WHAT?!  I tried this on.  I know I did.  It fit ok.  What is different???..........Oh that's right, they don't have clips holding this dress in  the best way this dress could ever look on your body.  While I tried dresses on, the wonderful lady at David's would clip the straps where they should be (straps are always way long on me), bring the dress in anywhere it is sticking out, and just make it look wonderful on you.    Well of course minus those big clips, the dress looked outstanding.  Now that the clips were off, this bra just didn't work.  I found myself going from calm to melt down in less than 30 seconds.  She gave a few options that I was just not comfortable with...no way am I going without any undergarments!  And as I stood there on the verge of tears they told me that they had another appointment open at 4:30.  I could go to the mall and look and come back later in the day.  As I breathed a sigh of relief we marked my back the highest the bra could go, took off the dress, decided we weren't as hungry as we thought earlier, and went straight to the mall and headed for Victoria's Secret.  Now I am happy to say that we found something.  We were able to go back later that day and it worked. :)

 Bridezilla almost came out that day.  I must say right here and now it would have only been out of panic and fear.  The ladies at David's Bridal are just the best!  They are so helpful, and always remain calm.  This in turn kept me calm.  It kept the dreaded Bridezilla away for hopefully  not another day!  Maybe I have just had my big wedding flaw happen.  I hope that any others that happen are solved as simply as this one.  

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