What to Wear!

What to Wear is definitely the biggest question any bride faces when getting ready for the big day.  Now we all know, for the most part, our dashing finance will be in a black tux or suit, or maybe mix it up and go charcoal grey or brown.  But for the women, its going to be a dress, probably white, maybe ivory if we're a slut or have been married before.

Well, in keeping with the "throw tradition out the window" theme that we were developing, I decided to forgo the whole white or off-white wedding dress and go for the GLAM!!  I found a great little Victorian poem online and picked blue for the color of my dress.

"Married in White, You have chosen Right.

Married in Blue, Your love will be true..."

So, I went with blue at the behest of my future husband.  The stigma of the white wedding dress only comes to us from the Victorian era, and as our culture has just about buried most of that era's etiquette, I think it's safe to say that wearing a colorful wedding dress is definitely no longer a faux pax!

I found a wonderful site that definitely helped me a lot: Offbeat Bride.  This gal Ariel even wrote a book that I highly recommend, and there is even an online community for support!!!

I found my dress at tjformal.com.  I would only recommend someone buy a dress online if you are familiar with the designer and how thier dresses fit, or it you are very familiar with your body measurments and find out the needed fit information from the house of the designer.  What that means: you need to have your exact body measurements and be willing to alter the dress to fit once it gets here, or like I did, I got a dress from a designer who's models were more my body style.  I only took in the shoulders, everything else fit like a glove!