the dress! YEAH!

I've bought my dress!!!!! 


back story: 


this right here is the one i tried on and cried in. i wanted it so badly. 

it's a dress from saja, and it's magical. it's light and flowy and just pure love. this dress is actually not one that i originally liked when i saw it online. but when i tried it on? good god it was luuurve. the only problem? it was 1400 dollars. i know, i know...never try on a dress you can't afford. however, i did some (poor, apparently) research beforehand and had thought that all saja dresses were around or under 700. this is apparently not true. so yeah, i thought and thought and thought about this dress. i know 1400 dollars is not a lot of money when it comes to wedding dresses these days...BUT IT'S INSANE. it really is. for a dress you wear once?! for a couple of hours? ARE YOU KIDDING?! there are people out there that have real problems and i'm sitting here complaining about not getting this dress? yeah. i just knew that if i got this one than i wouldn't fully enjoy it as i'd be thinking how disgusting it was that i spent that much money. also it goes completely against this ol' blogski, so just for that reason alone i couldn't do it. ha! 


so then i came up with a genius idea: what if i found it used? so i went online late one night and searched for used saja dresses. and i found some flippin' fantastic websites. pretty much you can google 'used wedding dresses' and go from there. the ones i went to were here and here and on wedding blogs under listings that people have posted...places such as oncewed and ruffled and the like. and then i randomly went on ebay. after a LOT of searching, i found one that i loved. i texted with my dad who told me that i needed to get it. 


this was that one:

it's a jcrew dress. it had swiss dots (lovelovelove me some swiss dots) and was otherwise exactly what i've wanted in a dress. except that my boobs would be closer to this

rather than, well...what you see that jcrew model rockin'. and the fabric was less flowy and more starchy looking. i don't know this for sure, as i never tried it on, but from the research i did that's what i discovered. my dad's sweet texts were definitely swaying my opinion on it, but i ultimately decided against it.


so then i got pretty discouraged and didn't know what the heck to do. i found a grey dress that i fell in love with. i found a couple of other ones in random colors/shapes as well. i just loved pretty much every dress...and then never bought them. 


and then i found one that i sort-of liked. the price/quality was right, and it had pretty much everything i wanted, but i just wasn't sure. i went on ebay and found it for 165 dollars, in my size, with tags still on it. i was thisclose to buying it, but then backed out. someone quickly snatched it up, and i was back at square one. 


then i google imaged key words to describe the dress i picture myself wearing, and just sorted through all of the photos that popped up. every.single.time that i clicked on a dress that i thought was absolutely perfect, it ended up being the dress that i wasn't entirely sure about and backed out of. every single time! so then i became obsessed with it. i almost bought it in a pretty blue, then a grey, and then a pink. and then last night at 11:30 i went online and found it. and bought it. 


one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety nine cents plus shipping: grand total of 129.49. i could have bid on it and yes, i'm sure scored it for much cheaper. however i didn't want to lose it this time and so i just bought it outright. and really? less than 130 dollars for my wedding dress? that's like 1200 dollars cheaper than the original original.




i also bought my headpiece. that cost more than the dress, but i don't care. 


because will reads this blog, i'm not going to post pictures of the dress or the headpiece. i am so bad at keeping anything a surprise from him, so in the event that i end up showing him (really, it's just a matter of time...) i'll post the photos then. 


i have never been so excited for the mail to be delivered. 




OH! and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! i hope whatever it was that you did for new years was wonderful, and this brand new year is so, so good to you.