My wonderful weekend

After three painfully long months, I finally got to go back to my college town to see my OOT bridesmaids!! Jenn and Marsha are both sorority sisters of mine (my little and big, respectively) who still live in the town where we went to college. Marsha got a job there, and Jenn is seeking her Masters degree. Part of the reason it was so exciting to go down there was I finally got to give them their bridesmaid dresses!

I'll be honest, I would not strongly recommend what we did. When I went gown shopping, my sister/MOH saw a dress in a poster, and commented on how much she liked it. It was really similar to the dress I had been looking at as a bridesmaid dress, and 3/4 girls had tried on and liked (well, to the extent you could like a dress that was a hideous sample color and could fit two people in it). So Carlin tried it on, and loved it. She was able to figure out her size pretty easily (that tiny picture is her trying it on, I'm the creeper in the right mirror with the camera). I brought Nikki to David's a few days later, and she tried it on and loved it. Same thing with size. I had asked Marsha and Jenn to try it on, but they were really busy and just told me to go with it. So we did, sight unseen, kind of winging it on sizes (Jenn gave me her measurements, Marsha told me to get her a specific size).

I got them their dresses this weekend, and they both looked AMAZING. Both dresses fit, only slight alterations needed, and they looked soooooooooo pretty. The color works to well on both of them, and it's so flattering. A note to any brides reading this who have not yet selected a bridesmaids dress: simple is good.

I'm so relieved this worked out. Sorry for the tiny photo, you can click it to enlarge. Our dress is David's Bridal 8933 in Pool. Did anyone else just kind of wing it with the bridesmaids dresses?