She Found The Dress!!!!!

Exciting news!!!!!

After many beautiful dresses, after many hours of searching, toole monsters, horrible encounters, fiascos, and the fabulousness of Demetrios and Cheryl, LA has found her dress and it is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! She looks absolutely stunning in it! Clap your hands for the most important part of all the planning is complete!! Give her your physical or virtual love n' hugs!

Also, while at Demetrios, Michelle and I were able to look around at their available bridesmaids dresses and found two that we really like!
One of them is by Eden Bridals. It is a beautiful satin dress with a halter style neck, ruched top and banded upper midsection. This one is very much a cousin of the David's Bridal dress that Michelle had and when she tried it on, it looked fabulous! The color the model is wearing the dress in is the color that was at the store and we found that this color was good for both yellow and pink undertones. 

It has a very flattering waist line that won't accentuate anything too much, fitting from below the breasts with a thick band that separates the ruched top from the skirt of the dress, which lightly flares out right before the hips, so the hips are not fitted in at all and brought attention to while still giving the wearer a good figure. The halter style top is ruched, which is good fo any size of chest (according, correctly, to Cheryl of Demetrios) so even if you have a small chest or are very top heavy, this style of his top will be flattering and appropriate without being overly coservative.

The back of the dress also gives the audience a small site of flesh. It's not small enough for me to consider it a key-hole, but a relative thereof. It's kind of a "peek-a-boo!" for your back (which makes me giggle just a bit...the back being SO scandalous n' all).

Another benefit of this dress is the designer, Eden Bridals. Eden Bridals has a turn around of 4 weeks, according to Cheryl. This is AMAZING since most bridemaid dress designers have a turn around of anywhere between 8-18 weeks, depending on the complexity of the dress. A 4 week turn around means that even for those who might not be anywhere near Demetrios or somewhere that can order this dress, you can come home over Thanksgiving, Christmas, or even Spring Break and order it and have it in time. I would advocate the sooner rather than later, but this does mean we don't need to order our dresses until December, January or February (at the latest March).



The other dress we found that every seemed to like was by Bill Levkoff. This dress was made of a tissue taffeta, which is incredibly smooth (much like satin) while still being lightweight and worthy to wear again. The square neckline is another plus for all chest sizes, since it will imply more for those with less and hold in those who are top heavy (we don't need spillage):

This one is also banded, like the Eden dress before it and thus, will produce an appealing fit for any body shape we have because it also bands right across the upper midsection with an A-line skirt. This means those with hips who are worried about their hips can sleep at ease. It fits in the right places while being comfortable and lightweight, which is good for the summer seasons. It is sleeveless, but Michelle, LA, Mrs. Harris and I all thought that the addition of spaghetti straps (if desired) would not be that great of a task to complete. The band has one big difference over the Eden band and that is....

It's a sash that forms into elegant tails :)

Now, it is two-toned with the sash, which gives us an unique opportunity to use a complimentary color alongside the darker royal blue we will probably be going with. This means that our sashes could be light baby blue in nature...along the lines of this:

or this....

(aawww aren't they cute?...Kinda...maybe?)

Anyway, those are the two strong options, though the Levkoff (if I remember right) does take longer than the Eden to come in...somewhere along the lines of 8-10 weeks or it could be 14-16 weeks, I can't really remember. So, if you end up liking this dress instead, then you will have to order it earlier.

Speaking of ordering!!!! I believe Cheryl told LA this (though I might be wrong) but we, as the bridemaids, received a 15% discount on our dresses if we order them through Demetrios. Thus, if you want to pay less for your bridemaids dress, you WILL have to go to Demetrios at some point and get measured. They will order it for you and you will pick it up from them. The prices of the dresses are good (Eden's is INCREDIBLY good) for designer bridemaids dresses, and with the (tentative) discount, they will be even better. Here are the prices of the dresses with and without the discount, just incase I heard wrong:

Eden Dress

Retail Price: $160

With Discount: $136

Bill Levkoff Dress

Retail Price: $265

With Discount: $225.25

What do you guys think?