Ideal Bite

Vintage dress shopping is an exercise in humility. See, I'm not a little girl. Oh sure - I go up and down in weight, sport varying levels of fitness, feel puffy or lean, depending on the time of day/week/month/year… But by and large, my set point is a size 8, and I'm not going to deviate from that by much, even if I never eat a starch again between now and October 17th.

But all those women who wore wedding dresses years ago? Apparently they were all a whole lot more Gwyneth Paltrow than Jane Russell.

So thus far, vintage wedding dress shopping is feeling a lot like losing my luggage in Singapore in 2002…go to Singapore and try to buy a bra and shoes and clothes sometime if you are 5'8" and a 34D. It’s a REALLY solid check on your ego.

I DID find an amazing couture site called The Frock. They definitely had more options in reasonable sizes. Dresses are gorgeous (sigh), but pricey (oof), and you have to buy them in order to try them on (ugh). Still…it's awesome to dream, no?

-Heather…off to meet with a potential wedding planner…