April 2010

You come up with A Plan.

{via Style Me Pretty}

You will tell your ladies to choose whatever knee-length dress they want to wear in a gray. You don’t want your girls to match.

But then one comments that it is so difficult to find a Gray Dress.

And another wonders if maybe it will look Very Bad if they don’t wear the same dress.

Yet another thinks gray is So Depressing.

Most don’t seem excited at all to look for their own dress.

You go back to the drawing board. You change the color to purple. You still really want them to wear mismatched dresses, yet you quickly realize that it’s nearly impossible to find mismatched options outside of bridal lines. And bridal lines are expensive. You consider changing the color, yet again, to blue. Blue is easier to find, but you don’t love blue.

You continue to search for purple dresses. For 3 months.

You toy with the idea of pink dresses but they’re too expensive.

So you continue to search. For 2 more months. This was supposed to be simple, you grumble to anyone who will listen.

In the meanwhile, everyone wants to know What Your Colors Are. And when you tell them, you don’t have colors, they ask What Color Are Your Bridesmaid Dresses? And when you tell them, you haven’t chosen them yet, they blink at you really fast. And then their heads explode.

When they’ve collected themselves, they insist you MUST have colors. At which point you wonder if sticking your fingers in your ears and going pbblttt might not be a more effective way to communicate with people?

One day you get an email about a sale at JCrew. 20% off all dresses. The boy is not crazy about their purple options.

But they have gray.

You email all your ladies that they can choose any of four dresses. By the end of the day, all dresses have been purchased. With 5 ladies, there is bound to be variety, no?

They all choose the same dress.

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