Change of Heart

Today Mr. Caterpillar’s mama and I headed over to Mark Ingram Bridal Atelier for the Paris trunkshow. I tried on my veil and dress — the much manhandled, four-sizes too big sample — and Mama Caterpillar managed to snap this picture with her camera phone.

For some reason I look a little slouchy and pot-bellied in the photo, but maybe that’s how I look in real life. In real life they don’t tilt the mirrors slightly back so you look thinner, or so I hear. But, I also look like I have boobs in the photo, and in real life, I know I don’t have those.

The dress is the Monique Lhuillier “Blythe” which is a sort of modified “Bliss.” And the veil is by someone else special and talented, but I have no idea who that is. All in all, I think my choices are ok. I never had that gold-standard bridal moment of dress shopping when you first see yourself in the perfect dress and cry. I chose my dress quickly, and I think I chose well — the picture above notwithstanding, I think I’ll look unslumpy and relatively fancy — but I figured a dress is a dress is a dress.

Until today.

Oh.

I’ve found the dress of all dresses. The most perfect dress on earth. Clearly created by angels. For me.

Unfortunately, it is not the Monique Lhuillier Blythe. It’s actually nothing like the Blythe. It’s a bold red, silk chiffon gown from Morgane La Faye in Soho. It’s glorious. And comfortable. It comes in ivory in addition to the red. And at $2,400, it’s about half the price of the Lhuillier. So, for what I paid for a dress I think is ok, I could have had TWO, count them TWO, absolutely crazy perfect dresses. So what am I going to do now?

PS: Buy your veil online if you can. All in, I’m paying about $975 to decorate my head — veil ($675) + headpiece ($300); and that’s just too much for a piece of netting and some beads.

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