Wedding dresses we said no to...........

You guys might or might not remember , but I had gone to 13 individual stores to check out wedding dresses and have probably tried on 50+ dresses before finally buying the one.. It's not that these dresses are not beautiful... but it was just not the one... so what do you guys think of these dresses? how many dresses did you try before buying the one? I took a picture of most of the dresses I have tried so there are more to come!

How awesome is this bride's dress and bridesmaids' dresses?

Grabbed from here

Saw the bride's dress from Green Wedding Shoes and the dress is designed by Christian Sirriano I have to say the bridesmaids' dress look amazing too especially the back view!! Ok I'll need to give more updates to you all soon!

Sneak peak my wedding dress...

I really don't want to share yet.... but.... can't help it.. so sneak peek... I had my second fitting appointment today... more to come... after mid September :P

Indonesian traditional dress reveal

I always love the dress change that people do at weddings... Nothing too crazy .. (I've been a MOH that helps the bride to change dresses 7 times).. a lot of my friends here change dress to cheongsham /qipao which is the chinese traditional dress.. and while I am Indonesian chinese.. I don't feel any connection to a qipao.. what I want to wear is instead an Indonesian traditional dress called kebaya.. at first i was reluctant to do it.. i have to make it in indonesia.. can't really fit it in indonesia bla bla bla.. but finally my coworker push me to do it (she changed to her vietnamese traditional dress).. with the help of my MOH/fashion designer... here's how it goes

The dress design:

the fabric selection:

the rejected fabric -

the selected fabric -

Finallly, the dress:

It looks a million times better on me and up close, the detailed, the beadings, the colors.. but it's being altered right now.. slightly too big on me.. and it imposes more problem: you see that big gap in the front = need shoes = my jimmy choo silver shoes does not work with dress = need to get a pair of gold shoes...

My 3 bridesmaid dresses... AWWW...

ok first see my inspiration pictures..... for design and colors...

Next see some design that my fashion designer Maid of Honour has designed for the dresses/ her inspiration:

and next up the dressess...

missmatched pink bridesmaid dresses...

Aww.. what do you all think? The middle one is from BCBG on sale... the other two were custom made..

A typical western wedding gown in Indonesian party

How do they walk in this thing?? How do they dance or move around? How do you even bustle this thing?? You probably don't bustle it at all.. mm... interesting :) What do you guys think about a long train for the dress

Vera Wang Spring 2012 Bridal Trunk Show

The Vera Wang Spring 2012 Trunk Show will be held on Thursday September 1st through Saturday September 3rd, at the Vera Wang Melrose boutique.

Please call to schedule your appointment:
323-602-0174

Vera Wang Bridal
8445 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles CA

Potential Maid of Honor dresses

Aren't they gorgeous? The dress will be custom make by my MOH's design

My dress has arrived!!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyy....................

First part of their email:

Congratulations, your Vera Wang bridal gown is ready!
I will be your stylist assisting you through your journey with us and hope to make it memorable for you.

I love how they have to say "your Vera Wang bridal gown" :) time for alteration... Sh(^*(#(&# need to tone these arms................ The benefit of a big gown is that it wont show my hip ;)

Vera Wang Spring 2012 wedding dresses

Excuse me while I fall down from my chair...... the back dress of that copper/brownish wedding dress is to die for...

Monday blues....

if you recall I was trying to find an engagement dress for my upcoming trip on wednesday to Indonesia for my Chinese Engagement.

Dress #1 and #2: FAIL
I ordered two dresses from BHLDN.com but put in the wrong address so it never got to me and they don't have time to reship it to me by this Wednesday

Dress #3 : FAIL
I ordered a Temperley London dress from gilt.com which came on time BUT it does not look good AND it does not fit. (In that order!) so off it goes back to gilt..

Dress #4: FAIL
Bought a Marchessa Notte dress. After I went home, it just looks tooo sexy.. can't do it. So I returned it.

Dress #5 and #6: PENDING
I ordered two Vera Wang Lavender dresses from Neiman Marcus yesterday for a next day delivery. The dresses will arrive tomorrow. We'll see how those goes

Dress #7: UGH
My last resort is this dress i had where my fashion designer friend design and I custom make it in Indonesia. I made the dress probably 4 years ago. I tried it on yesterday after 2 years not wearing it. UGH! It is snug.... like very snug... it's kinda backless and you can see my back is trying to pop out... and my triceps area don't look too good either. UUUGGHHH!!! I do love the design on this dress though. Note to self: Please make my Parson-schooled friend to design more dresses because it's much cheaper than buying them in LA and her design is on par with J. Mendel's dresses.

Hoping dress #5 and #6 fit perfectly.

I also had to order size 2 and 4 for both dresses in case it does not fit.

I just measured my waist and it's at 27" which is a size 6 in US (SHRIEKK.... I used to be 0,now 2. )

I have 7 days to lose weight and fit dress #7.

Went to a body sculpting class during lunch at work, going to yoga after work, eating salad.

UGH

Bought a dress!! YAYYY...

This marks the end of my 4 months search for a dress.. YAYYYY this definitely need some celebration...

For fun , let's list out the stores that I have gone to since November 2010:
1. Vera Wang NY, reallly the dress was probably the 4th dress I tried on
2. Mark Ingram NY
3. Monique Lhuillier
4. Saks Fifth Avenue
5. Vera Wang LA
6. Impressions Sawtelle
7. Mon Amie
8. Erin Cole
9. Priscilla of Boston
10. back to Monique Lhuillier
11. back to Vera Wang
12. back to Saks Fifth
13. Lili bridals Tarzana
14. Panache bridal
15. Winnie Couture
16. David's bridal to check out White by Vera Wang
17. Glamour Closet
18. back to Glamour Closet
19. Finally Vera Wang (twice in two days).

Ok so 13 individual stores and a couple visit back to the same stores. Yes I am an undecisive person, but really... really... it's not because I'm indecisive..

Let me tell you about my wedding dress story. I have two weddings... one in LA in September 2011. and another one in another country in December 2011. My wedding in LA is at an art Museum, it's an outdoor wedding for 150 guests. My other wedding is in a hotel ballroom for 1000 guests. (Really that is an average to smaller guest size in my country). So anyway, my grandma wants me to get two dresses. You can't wear the same dress twice, don't ask me why.. it's some traditional thing.. So I wanted to get a mermaid style dress, more fitted to my body and all the wedding in the other country has to be big ball gown and I don't want a ballgown wedding gown for my Los Angeles wedding.

I was havign a hard time finding my dress for my LA wedding. I just can't seem to find the one. I wanted a mermaid/trumpet tulle, organza, something soft and romantic. For my second wedding, I haven't tried a lot of ball gowns..

Anyway so after 13 stores, my mom told me I can get one wedding gown for both event , partly because the mermaid dress I liked is way over my budget and it's such a waste of money. So last week she told me this and I just knew I want to get a Vera Wang..

Went to the trunk show and yay... we got the dress now :) Ok keeping the dress huss huss for now...

50 dresses tried, none I loved

I've been looking for a dress since about three weeks after I got engaged. I've been every where in LA that fits my champagne taste (on a beer budget). My first two stops were in NY when I was visiting my bridesmaids. Vera Wang: it was prety good, I had a couple I liked, Farrah, Diana, Eliza. Then next to Mark Ingram, unfortunately nothing that blew my mind away.

Back to LA, and I've revisited Vera, went to Monique Lhuillier, Impressions bridal in Sawtelle, Saks Fifth, Winnie Couture, Panache, Mon Amie, back to Vera and Monique, Lili's bridal in Tarzana. Along the way , I have a couple like and the falling out of love (Vera Wang Farrah).

Now I'm almost in that limit of pushing the timeline on picking a dress and I don't have anything I really love... there are a couple strong contender..

I'm going to check out the White by Vera Wang line at David's bridal this weekend, will revisit Saks Fifth ave and then my last resort is the Vera Wang trunk show at Melrose on February 24th. The Hillary Duff vera wang wedding dress looks pretty awesome with a price tag of $6,500 ( my fiance thinks I'm crazy and will probably cut down my budget on other things if I pull the trigger on this one ).

1st pic: Ethel , strong contender
2nd pic: Fall 2011 Vera Wang, similar to Hillary Duff's dress
3rd pic: Farrah, the dress I fell out of love with