I'm not some wedding-crazed bridezilla...

and I've never been very girley... so why on earth do I find myself wanting to order these? In hot pink no less?

Woo hoo!

Just got an email saying the wedding dress I ordered on eBay is en route to my house! (Yes, I realize this violates the "no more dress posts" pledge just a couple of posts below, and I'll warn you that I'll probably make it worse by posting the day it actually gets here.)

UPDATE: the dress is here! Dave signed for it, and despite a panic attack (the box was wet) it arrived, blemish free, and fits (though it's hard to do up because of the nature of the dress (can't give more details than that b/c Dave reads the blog) and it's a wee bit loose at the boobs! I'm hoping it'll need lots of alterations by August anyway! Duty was $89.40, making the dress $485.73, all in (except alterations) which made this eBay experiment a savings of $495.22 cheaper than anywhere else I shopped. YIPEE!

The end of the dress posts...

This will be the last post about wedding dresses. Promise. I just ordered mine from a dude on eBay! Yikes! Don't panic, though, it's one I've tried on in stores and gotten the appropriate "ooohh" response from friends/family.

I am, however, playing a bit of "size roulette" though. I tried the dress on in one store, and it was a bit tight there- I could zip it up a bit (well as much as is possible with a broken zipper) but it did somewhat resemble sausage casing on me (not the dress's fault, I know). At another store I tried it on two sizes bigger than the sausage casing one and it was almost "fall to the ground" too big on me. So, I elected to order the size in between "sausage casing" and "almost drop to the floor." Hopefully that was the right move.

The bonus of eBay is that the dress was about $500 cheaper than it was at the stores. That's a pretty big savings, and one we needed since our wedding is on a shoestring budget.

The trade-off, though, is that it's a bit nerve wracking to buy a dress on eBay. I'm not a regular eBay person, and perhaps that's the problem. All I've bought on eBay is my little timex watch. So jumping from a $29.99 watch to a wedding dress is a bit nervy, especially given the fact that the dude selling the dress hasn't answered the question I sent more than a week ago, or the two follow-up emails I sent. But, somehow, I trust this whole internet thingy and hopefully nothing bad will come of my blind trust. The dude has good feedback but the theme throughout was that the dress was fine, but the communication from the seller sucked. I hope this post won't be followed in a few weeks with a "Aaaaahhhh what have I done?!" post.

FOLLOW UP: I got an email saying the "manufacturer's completion date is 2nd week of April, or sooner. Occasionally they do run ahead of there previous scheduled ship dates." Hopefully mine is one of the "ahead of schedule" ones.

By popular demand...

Well not really, but since Allison asked...I give you the front of the fish dress.
It's not nearly as hideous from the front but the back really does it in. I'd be playing with it and making fishey faces on our wedding day which really won't look so hot in the photos. The fact I look like there should be people from greenpeace urging me to go back to the sea doesn't help it either. Here's the dress on a pretty model.

I've already decided on a strapless dress, but it does come with optional straps which I'll likely use at the reception.

Meringue-ey goodness

If the reference to the dress below weren't enough to confirm my mental maturity level is at the same level as your average four year old I offer this one:



When I tried this perfectly beautiful dress I didn't like it because I thought I looked like a big meringue topped pie.

Heeeeerrree fishy, fishy fishy!

If I try on an (otherwise beautiful) wedding dress and immediately decide I don't like it because the back of it makes me look like a cuttlefish does that mean I'm not mature enough to get married? Does likening bridal gowns to cephalopods (and demonstrating it to the sales lady) confirm my mental maturity is equivalent to that of a 4 year old? I think my mother and sister were somewhat mortified.


Either way, tomorrow the search continues with a contingent of friends to help along the way. I'll feel much more organized about the whole wedding thing once the dress part is out of the way.