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.
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