We were still recovering from “Felice the Wheezer” and we still hadn’t found THE DRESS. People told me, “You’ll just know. She’ll put it on; she will glow."
And so I took two days off from work to search for THE DRESS. The first place Lindsay made the appointment was in a fancy bridal store in Massapequa. We had an appointment at 10:15am. This time we had my younger daughter, Kim, with us. We couldn’t be late because Lindsay reserved the appointment with her credit card and she’ll be charged $50 if she doesn’t cancel within 24 hours. The shop takes up a whole block and is divided into mother of the bride, bridesmaid and brides sections. Of course we walked into the wrong door, first, then were directed to the bridal boutique. This time the window looked like one you would buy your gown in. A lovely woman was at the desk. Her name was Mary Lou; I love that name. While Felice the Wheezer was frustrating and just plain ridiculous, Mary Lou, well, you just wanted to go buy a Hallmark card for Mary Lou. She asked Lindsay all about Scott and how they met and where they’re getting married. There were comfy couches and benches for me and Kim to sit on. Mary Lou took Lindsay to the walls of closets to show her the gowns. They weren’t wrapped in plastic and each one was more beautiful than the next. This is where we were introduced to the concept of Trunk Shows. Trunk Shows are when the designers send their gowns ahead of time to preview it. Trunk Shows are good because you can get a bargain because the gowns are marked down about $500 from the price they will sell at. I like bargains, especially when you can spend thousands on a wedding dress. There was a Trunk Show at this store. The rack was long with many dresses and many bargains. I started to look through the rack and Lindsay liked many of the dresses that were there. We also found some dresses in the closets. Mary Lou took Lindsay into the dressing room while Kim and I waited on a fancy bench for Lindsay to come out in one white dress after another. This time they had clips that adjusted the dress so we could see how it would fit in the right size. There was one dress that we thought was the one and of course all others were compared to it and didn’t measure up. And then it happened. Mary Lou found another dress on the Trunk Show rack, one we didn’t notice, and Lindsay came out with her eyes as bright as the time when she was in the nursery when she was first born. She looked at us and just nodded her head up and down as she stood in front of the mirror. Mary Lou was ecstatic and she turned to me and said, “It spins really well, too.” Lindsay had told her about the blog so she knew all about Lindsay and her spinning skirts when she was little. I was starting to imagine filling in the personal note that I would write to Mary Lou inside the Hallmark card we would send her. And then it happened. I started to tear….just like a few people had warned would happen. Sigh. We looked at the price….sigh again, with relief, and what was that?- another 10 percents off! We were ecstatic. But we had an appointment at Kleinfeld the next day. And we could not cancel it because they had the same policy of charging your credit card $50. So we put the dress on hold and said we would just go to Kleinfeld for the experience and be back the next night with the “Bridal Dress Committee”. Yes. We formed a committee. The committee members were me, Kim, Nanny Sylvia (my mom), Lindsay’s future mother-in-law and sister-in-law and last but not least, future niece- 3 year old Marisa, the flower girl. That’s the committee. The committee members were called and we set a time- 7pm the next night....
...to be continued.
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