I got a dress for Aunt Shel’s wedding!  Kel and I found it in the first maternity store we went to.   I tried on about 12 dresses, most were not formal enough.  But this one is wine colored and made from a dressy fabric.  Wrap it up!

I was prepared to spend whatever I needed in order to get a nice dress.   BAGD, Pookie and Geetle will be looking good, and I wanted to as well!   Plus, I am pregnant and its hard enough to feel like you are smokin’ when you know your ankles are swollen and your belly button is poking thru your clothes.  We were going to Mimi Maternity, home of the $68 tank top, first, so this could get pricey.

I had a number in my head…but I dared not say it out loud.  I knew BAGD would not complain, he would tell me to spend whatever I wanted to.  But saying the number out-loud would probably scare me so much that I would be unable to actually go and try the dresses on.  Well, now that I have a dress, I can say the number.  I was prepared to spend…..$300.  gulp.

After I had fallen in love with the dress, I realized that I never checked the price tag.   I remember that one dress I picked off the rack was $189, but was this the one?  There I was, all zipped up, twirling in front of the mirror, not knowing how much it cost.  Of course, the tag was dangling down the middle of my back and I could not reach it, so I had to ask Kel to help.   She looks at it, pauses and says “you’re not going to believe this.”   Kel knows I am cheap, so I had a momentary panic attack, thinking it must be several hundred dollars.  In a fraction of a second, I decided that if it was too expensive, maybe I could get cheaper shoes or borrow those ones that my friend Dina said I could use.   Shel’s only getting married once and I was not going to cheap out on her.

Turns out, the dress was on sale…marked down from $39 to $29.   What!  $29!?  Apparently there is a corner of Mimi Maternity which sells more reasonable priced items and that is where we found this dress.   Crazy!  So, even when I am not trying to be cheap, things work out like that.   It must be my destiny, good thing I don’t fight it.  Then Kel and I went looking for shoes…that’s another story….

We needed a pair of strappy sandal-type formal shoes, that would accommodate the swelling feet of a  7 month pregnant woman.  Little or no heel, since my center of gravity is lopsided at the moment.   Tall order.   We found a pair of Life Stride sandals at a local shoe store.  They are wide enough for my feet and the heel is very stable.  Wrap ‘em up!  But wait, they did not have my size in black.  We went home and I found them on Amazon.com for $10 cheaper than the shoe store, plus free shipping.

So, shopping for a formal maternity dress was not has hard or expensive as I thought it would be.  I am very happy!  And now I think I saved enough money that I can buy the mineral makeup I have been wanting.   I think we are going to make a very cute family at this wedding,  BAGD and I will post some pictures at the end of the month.