More wonderful comments, I swear you people are helping to keep Kleenex very, very happy!
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Our journeys are sometimes parallel, I nearly broke down when trying on wedding dresses. Everything looked lovely, I was living the dream. So, I get your post deeply in my bones.
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Glory, you're going to think I'm crazy, but I am telling you, I thought of you several times and your post about how much fun it was to go wedding dress shopping! It does amaze me how eerily similar we are at times, often in fact!
I did come close a few times earlier to breaking down, got a bit teary, but her keep on calling me a peanut, then the butt comment and then the
perfect body comment - sent me over the edge. Because there was a time, I know this sounds terrible, but there was a time when I doubted I'd even be ALIVE to see my daughter(s) get married - yet alone be very much alive and in such great shape.
I still can't believe that I was able to fit into and ahem, look so darn good in so many dresses! Mind. Boggling. To. Say. The. Least.
Love ya too Glory (I'm still determined we will meet one day) and I will absolutely send you a pic or two or three or four.
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It's not just your triumph that is so amazing, but also the pains you go to to try to share it with all of us
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Ubergirl, it's real important to me to try and get my point across of just how worth it this journey is. How worth it is, and how
possible it is. I suffered SO much from being super morbidly obese and now, well, now I am just LOVING my life and I DO want every one to "convert" so to speak.
For soooo many years I didn't think it was possible to lose the weight, and I can't help believe that if someone would have said to me, "I know for certain that you CAN do it and that it's even better and more worth it than you can possibly imagine", I think I would have attempted it years earlier - attempted it - and done it - and that is my purpose and my wish.
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That dress is gorgeous, brown is my favorite and the most elegant color.
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I know it's coming across very brown-ish, but it really isn't - actually, it's got lots of green in it. The color is called Antique Gold. It's a greenish kind of a gold. Hard to explain. That was my only issue with the dress. It took me a few days once I had seen it to actually go and order it.
My daughter wants the bridal party in green. One of my daughters is wearing sage green and my other daughter is wearing emerald green - that's the problem. I am going to clash terribly with that emerald green dress, but I finally decided - so what. Her other bridesmaids dresses (her friends) I've yet to see, but something tells me I won't be "matching" them so well either. But like I already said, so what. Now I'm thinking it just may be the emerald green dress that will be clash-y.
I'm going to feel like a million bucks and I really love the gown and I am getting too close to the date and needed to just go ahead and make a decision already or I'd wind up with nothing. I did see a couple of other gowns that I really liked, but oddly enough, each and every gown that I really loved, the greens were very unflattering, not nice greens at all. My daughters - no problem, lots of greens to choose from in whatever gown they chose - my dresses - very poor green choices. Oh well.
That's okay though. I get another opportunity for a gown! My next daughter is getting married in August if you can believe it. That definitely has added to the emotional factor. Yup, as many of you here know, I am making back to back weddings. Anyway, her color is blue, so it should be easier color wise. So yes, I've been looking for two gowns.
Which was another reason for the delay. The dress that I chose for DD#1 wedding is so my style, but I had to make sure that the second dress (which I think I know what it will be) has to look different from the first. Especially since green and blue are similar, but I think I solved that by taking this antique-ish/gold-ish green. Actually this dress was available in blue, so I considered it for wedding number two briefly, but it was a VERY DARK navy and DD#2 (and I) would prefer a lighter blue. Such dilemmas!
Thanks again every one. How lucky am I that I get to share this with all of you????
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Amanda we posted at the same time. I could DEFINITELY imagine you feeling the same way. It's just -
a lot of feelings going on there and I knew you would be another one who could relate, being as you were a recent bride.
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It's an amazing, awe-inspiring thing when something you thought impossible is facing you in the mirror.
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Great way to put it (as always) ...
