What a Weekend! – Saturday
Saturday I was out the door a little before ten and running around doing wedding shopping and decision-making until dinner. First was a trip to the Farmer’s Market, where Nicole and I looked at flowers. Then I met up with Jordan for lunch while we made our game plan for the rest of the day. After that it was off to thrift stores, craft stores and department stores, Big Ten Rentals, Old Chicago and more!
Around five we began part two of the dress hunt in earnest. You see, we found a new dress at JC Penny that was on sale, but apparently it was an extra 15% off through Saturday only and my sister was at the store by her but they didn’t have her size, nor could they get it from the warehouse for her for some reason. Since we were out doing wedding stuff anyhow, and we were less than five minutes from JC Penny, I offered to check the store by me.
On the way it was also determined I’d check for two of the other bridesmaids sizes as well. I arrived to find one dress on the rack that fit the bill, but was told that the other two could be ordered from the warehouse. Of course it wasn’t until I had paid and the receipt was printed that it showed both sizes were on backorder, meaning they might not show up until the day before the wedding! After the dress luck I’d been having this did not seem like a good idea, so the nice ladies at JC Penny began the search for stores with the correct sizes in stock, which could be shipped sooner than the backorder dresses would arrive.
The three saleswomen helped us for nearly two hours while we tracked down the dresses. One bridesmaid drove over an hour to get to a store she knew had her size and arrived five minutes before they closed. Another had seen the correct size for my sister at the store near her only hours before so we called to confirm it was still there and got it ordered to ship. In order to get it shipped from the store I had to sign up for a JC Penny card, but it did get me an extra 10% off, which made up for the shipping charge. By the time we left the store and went to a nearby restaurant for dinner it was nearly eight!
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Sounds like a hell of a whirlwind there! Your dress fiasco gave me sooooooo many wedding nightmares this weekend. And even with my shipping date of the dresses confirmed, I’m terrified that they’re wrong!
Good luck with everything and we cannot WAIT to see you in 3 weeks!!!!
Thank you! You are wonderful and are handling this whole “planning a wedding thing” very well.
Can’t wait to see you at the end of the month!