Girls in white dresses

My brother Kyle is getting married at the end of the month—in two and a half weeks! Yesterday afternoon Rose wanted to play dress-up with me. All the recent wedding talk in our family inspired me to show her my wedding dress. I have not seen it since my wedding day because it has been sealed in a special box, so it was exciting to get it out! I have looked forward to showing my wedding dress to my daughter since before she was born. Yesterday I thought, why not now? So we unsealed the box and tried on the dress. It was fun!! The heavy silky fabric felt so real and solid and the flowy train was just as flowy and satisfying as I remembered it. There were just enough sparkles to satisfy Rose too.

 

Haha, nice box. This funny thing was inside another box so I had no idea what it looked like.

There is is! It was so strange to have had this box sitting around for so long and never even known exactly what it looked like inside. Exciting! Also a little creepy—a headless bride in a box kind of.

 

Laaa! Bells! It took a little reaching and tugging, but Rose helped me zip up the zipper and the dress still fit! It was snug, but laaa! I never had it hemmed to the perfect length so it was exceptionally long and decadent. I had to swoop up and down our long hallway a few times to fully luxuriate in it.

FLASHBACK, to the first time I tried on my dress:

I picked out the style of my wedding dress when I was a teenager. At a young women’s activity one night we made jars with our hopes/plans for the future in them, like wedding dress, temple, number of kids, etc. When I was engaged, I got online and found a dress that looked the most like my ideal dress in that jar. I measured myself, called my mom, and she ordered the dress for me. A few weeks later it came in the mail to my little modular apartment and laaaa! It fit. Kind of a miracle for a mail order dress, ha ha.

[The dress on the Big Day—December 20, 2006]

I can’t help but wonder if this dress will look funny in another 20 years or so, you know? It’s always so hard to say with fashion. But, along with every other bride, I choose to believe that my wedding dress is timeless. :)

 

Rose thought the train looked like Queen Elsa’s dress.

 

 

In spite of my tired sleep-deprived haze, it was such a giddy fun afternoon to swirl around in my wedding dress with my Rose.

Amber had a turn too. :)

I love white dresses. I love weddings. I can’t wait to go bask in the joy of another wedding: with Kyle and Alivia!