The Story of My Wedding Dress

Well, after Josh proposed I started my search for dresses online and got a few ideas of what I liked. One of the first dresses I picked out was from David's Bridal. Life was so busy that I wasn't able to go dress shopping till a few months after getting engaged. I went back online often to look at that dress and one day I noticed it happened to be on sale, so soon after my sister and I decided to go try it on. We went to a store in Grand Rapids and I told them the dress I wanted to try on, but was informed that the reason it was on sale was because it was being discontinued and they no longer had any in their store but they could check other stores in Michigan. So the lady checked on her computer and then said, "Do you know where Novi is? Because they have the dress in white and a size 2 at that store." My jaw almost dropped and I told her that my family lives minutes away from Novi. The only downfall was that their dresses can only be put on hold for 24 hours and I wouldn't be able to get back to the east side until the following weekend and chances are it would be gone. So I decided to try on some dresses and see if there were any others that I liked. I ended up finding three which all had a different characteristics that I liked. So my sister took pictures of the dresses and I pondered over the pictures for the next few days. The original dress then popped back into my mind so I decided to look at it online. As I was reading the description, I realized that the original dress had all three of the characteristics that I had liked from the three that I had tried on. So, needless to say I was determined to at least try the dress on because it seemed so perfect. I called the Novi store on a Tuesday and said I wouldn't be able to be there to try it on until Friday. The lady told me that she couldn't put it on hold for that long but if she were me, she would just call every 24 hours and put it back on hold. I asked her if that was an appropriate thing to do and she said, "you're a bride you can do WHATEVER you want!!!" So I did. I was able to head home Thursday night and then went first thing Friday morning to try the dress on. IT WAS PERFECT - everything I wanted and even more beautiful than the online picture. It fit pretty well (of course I have to get it shortened...) and was white which I wanted (as opposed to ivory)! I loved it so much and so did my family! So the VERY first dress I found back in July ended up being the dress of my dreams!