An elephant of an entrance

Here’s something you don’t see much in the US–a groom making his entrance on an elephant–in downtown DC!  It gives the phrase “an elephant in the room” new meaning!  Supposedly this had been the groom’s dream since childhood, which is the first time I’ve heard of guys planning their dream wedding.

I picked a bridesmaid dress!

So I’m back from several weeks of traveling: Vegas, Montana, Wyoming, and New York. I still haven’t uploaded all my pics yet, so hopefully I’ll do that this weekend.

My original color was pink pink pink. I love pink! But I really didn’t like the pink dresses at David’s Bridal or the pink style at Ann Taylor. But when the Ann Taylor Celebrations dresses in crimson came out, I thought, OMG, I love these! But they weren’t in my color so I decided to shop around some more. My MOH and I went to a huge bridal store and tried on some dresses from Bill Levkof, Watters, and some others, but they were all missing the initial “ooh” factor. They were more like “eh” and I didn’t want to pick out $200 dresses that were just “eh.”

A few weeks ago the crimson one was on sale for 25% but since the economy is bad, I knew it would be marked down even further. And then I thought, well, maybe they will come out with another pink dress, but then, should I risk passing up the crimson dresses? What if the new Ann Taylor dresses are uglier, or worse, don’t even come in pink! I was ambivalent. But then yesterday I went to the website to look at something else and I noticed they were 40%! Yay, and I had a coupon code that would knock it down another 20%! Score! I figured I couldn’t miss this opportunity since we might risk not getting all the sizes we needed. And I really do like the color so I have no regrets.

So that’s how my color changed to crimson!

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Ann Taylor vneck crimson

Ann Taylor strapless in crimson