With the wedding just four weeks away, I'm almost ready to hit the panic button. I had met with f-SIL together with f-MIL last weekend and talking to them about wedding ideas, decorations etc, made me really stressed out. Not having a wedding dress five weeks into the wedding, felt like I was at zero, no matter the other plans and bookings I'd made.

The initial idea was for f-MIL to sew a dress for me, and I'd grown to have that fact in my head while I went along to organize and plan everything else. An unforeseen circumstances with family came up recently, and then it made me feel guilty about having f-MIL take time off to make the dress.

So off we went to the city today, with a shopping list of the wedding dress, wedding rings and groomsmen's ties. And we got all of those almost with no trouble! It's just this whole matching thing going on with the bridesmaid, flower girls and groomsmen having to have similar matching colors to bring out the themes which I was initially worries about. I decided to have Lee's nieces who are our flowergirl and ring bearer, along with my bridesmaid wear a qipao to represent a fusion of our East-West marriage. While the men's side would be wearing their usual smart suits. The guys in full black suits and red neck pieces, Lee in a full black suit and white neck piece.

Anyway, I digress. The initial gown try-outs had me thinking that the right dress was strapless A-line in pure white. But after today's search, I ended up with a gorgeous intricately-brocaded cream colored mermaid silhouette Henri Josef gown, named Briar Rose, which fit me to a tee. No alterations needed at all! *^_^*

Of course no pictures! This is just the detail on the dress. ^_~