Emotional Roller Coaster

What a difference a day can make. Tuesday night at 6pm I was feeling depressed, upset, unsettled and anxious about my wedding dress. Tonight at 7pm I was feeling confident, happy and excited about new possibilities. After all how many brides actually get a shot at a second dress, and this one practically fell in my lap. With all my wedding dress drama I never thought I would get another shot to completely rectify the situation, I  was really feeling helpless and depressed about the situation to say the least. Mike was referring to me as Mope. Tonight I truly feel like a new woman and a new bride.

The past 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster from the bottom back up to the top. Yesterday after work my wonderful Future Mother-in-Law was kind enough to come up to meet me to take me back to the horrendous bridal salon to see my two-toned dress in person for herself and also to express her concerns with the bridal shop and the service we'd been receiving. We did see the dress and of course the store manager Joanne came right out and basically tell us how there was nothing wrong with the dress and continue to not acknowledge or sympathize with our concerns about the dress and the color differentiation. I am so glad I had my Mother in Law there with me and her full support she was wonderful about speaking up about the problem in a calm and rationale way. In the end though we did not really get any further on the dress or a real solution to fixing the problem we simply got a "we'll try" and they'll call me when it's ready. The did continue to fit me for the dress and we left still upset about the condition on the dress.

After that since it was still early on a whim we decided to look for another bridal store in the area so we could go look at new dresses. We happened to stumble on Bijou Bridals as a local bridal salon that I remembered passing. We got so lucky when we went in there, the salon was empty and they took us right away. Everyone in the entire store was extremely friendly, helpful and sympathetic to my situation. I was shocked to learn that there was even the possibility of me getting a brand new dress to wear (and not a sample dress). We combed through one rack of dresses and pulled out a few and it was off to the dressing room I went. (More to come on the dress later). We left the bridal salon in with much more positive outlook than when I got there just an hour before. I now knew that I had options.