And what has finished to be an awesome day, we are now on our honeymoon now.

Here are some pictures from the amazingness

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well after only my second wedding dress shopping excursion I bought a dress. I really didn’t think it would happen so soon. I figured it would get to the point where it was annoying mom that I hadn’t made a decision and we would have a fight about making a choice, just like when we bought our condo. But it was truly amazing. After arriving at the Woodbridge Bridal plaza, we started investigating the different boutiques. At the first store, the dresses were starting around $6k…so I tried some on for fun. And that really mdae me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress. While we were there we learned all the tricks of how to clip a wedding dress. For me they clipped it to my bra, so that it looks done up, even though it is too small. Then some other chick but on a size 6 and had to clip it cause it was too BIG! Hate her! Anyway, on to the next store. It was a 50% off discount store with dresses priced under $1000, such a huge difference. But sadly, they were all hideous. Now onto, Chez Jordan…at this time I was getting a little unmotivated from the aggressive sales people and the multitude of dresses I had tried on. So Jamie and I picked a few more, and so did the sales lady and mom. So I started out trying no 5 more dresses. The first one, had a corset, which made me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress and add a corset. And the sales lady said “oh, that is your dress” and I thought, you are sneaky! So onto the next dress, I put it on, and it was lovely. And I thought well good to know. Then I went back into the dressing room for dress number 3. After putting on dress #3, I thought how much is dress #2? I was thinking it was going to be out of range. But it was $1150. uuuummm…ok, that is reasonable. So mom and I look at each other and say, “maybe I should give that one another try” I put it on once again, and walk out. Step on the step stool and they tighten it up. Then they get a veil. The first one’s colour didn’t match, so they go and get the ivory one. Just then mom starts crying! And we knew it was the one. This of course made our already poor bargaining skills have even less merit. In the dressing room we discuss putting off buying it and how to get a better deal. In the end, I got it with no tax. So I am quite pleased 🙂

I am really excited, Mom and I are going out for our first attempt at dress shopping. It should host a few challenges, but lots of fun too! We are making two stops. Bill just told me about the most amazing place called “The Bride’s Project”, a charity that receives dresses as donations and then sells them and gives 100% to a children’s cancer charity. I am really looking forward to seeing the organization and what dresses are there. Secondly, we will be going to Becker’s Bridal on Danforth. That will be much more typical. Hopefully not too much of a wallet shocker. I found out that my dream dress from Jim Hjelm is $4000. And thankfully, Daddy told me “Do NOT spend $4000 on your dress” otherwise I clearly would have…