wedding dress shopping tmrw!

tomorrow i have an appointment to try on wedding dresses! i had to search a bit to find a store that did the whole bridal shebang specifically with their off-the-rack dresses rather than their made-to-order ones, since the made-to-order ones take about as long to make as i have until my actual wedding, leaving no time for alterations. on the other hand, off-the-rack dresses are already-made sample dresses that i can purchase right then and there and then get altered. much more appropriate for our timeline!

i'm very excited, and maybe also feeling a bit of disbelief. thankfully i have my sister coming with me tomorrow! though i do wish i could have more loved ones come with us as well. stuff like this makes it really sink in that i'm establishing a life so far from so much of my family. 

we went to some thrift stores today and i tried on a wedding dress at one of them, but it didn't really feel like anything. it was a nice shape and not ginormously too big. but it was in a ramshackle little fitting room in a (very inexplicably toasty) thrift store, my hair was a mess, etc. so i didn't have any big, "wow, i'm trying on a wedding dress!" sort of feeling. 

for tomorrow, i've done my whole pre-fashion-show model prep routine. i'll do my hair and makeup before the appointment as well, so i can see as best as possible what the dresses would look like for real, not just a whisper of it. i'll be wearing nude underwear and probably nude pasties? i don't have any strapless bras that i love but i think i have some kind of strapless adhesive one that would do in a pinch. but it's hard to know what kind of bra i'd need (and like, preferably i won't need one at all) without knowing what my dress looks like! 

i've also gotten my nails freshly done. an almond french tip as usual (she says after a whole two times ever getting my nails done), but this time with a white chrome finish on top,  it turned out very lovely, though the white chrome is more subtle than i would have liked. i got this style as a potential wedding style, but we'll see.