Comments on: Say Yes To Bridal Fashion?

By: sophie

sophie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:17:56 +0000

oh god, just say no to mother of the bride outfits. Like seriously, can you actually see me in one of those things? I’ve had one friend suggest I should go with the mint green… I think I’ll be shopping in the bridesmaid section.

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:23:18 +0000

The two-prices aspect of the wedding industry is one of the things that bugs me the most about the whole deal. Makes you want to get quotes for “a party,” doesn’t it?

I was never one of those girls who dreamed about their wedding day as a child, and it does sort of amaze me how good a job the bridal industry does in encouraging women to think that their day has to be “perfect,” with all the attending risk of let-down if something goes a little wrong.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:10:57 +0000

Sophie, congratulations! All the best to your daughter and her groom. I hear you on the madness … the bridal industry has certainly figured out how to cash in on all this fantasizing. Keep us posted and stay sane! Have you picked out your mother-of-the-bride outfit yet?

By: sophie

sophie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:03:28 +0000

my oldest girl-child is getting married next year and we just put the deposit down on the wedding dress. We, meaning *me* of course. Oh god, save me from this. Luckily, she found something she loves that is a little over $1000.00 and looks quite amazing on her. Even then I get a little twitchy at the amount of money spent on one day of your life. I am all for a big celebration if that’s what you want to do but I get stuck on this underlying mentality that being a bride and a wedding is the thing all little girls wait for in their lives and is a necessary piece to being a complete person. I also get stuck on how there are two price lists, one for everyday and one for weddings and the same bottle of wine is anywhere from 10 to 30 dollars more expensive on that wedding price list. What are the odds I’m going to survive this without my own kind of melt-down?

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:05:26 +0000

I *was* sort of mesmerized by it!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:51:14 +0000

I will attest that that some of those dresses were big enough to house 4 or 5 small children inside! There was a sea-blue feathery one that was perfect for Kai, in my humble opinion

Also, a funny note is that brides-to-be coming in for their final fitting will often pass out from a lack of food … trying to skinny down for that dress, ya know! … and Kleinfeld used to have ambulances coming by regularly to pick up the fainting types. OMG.