So Much Fun Not Being the Bride

Our couple-friends finally got engaged over the holidays, which is great, because we all knew it was going to happen, we were just waiting for him to propose. This weekend J asked me to go with her to Nicole Miller to check out wedding dresses. It is soooo much more fun to help someone else look for wedding dresses than to find your own. She found some pretty dresses, but I don't know that she found the one. I offered to go with her to David's Bridal, since she knows the style, she just hasn't found the exact one that she wants.

I'm currently on my own dress hunt - M and I have 5 weddings (that we know of, so far) this year - and only one down. My obvious problem (aside from getting time off for the cross-country treks) is that I need at least one dress (they're not all the same group of people, so I could get away with one for the summer ones). I tried an Ann Taylor number (green and yellow), but the waist was a touch too high. Then I thought I saw the perfect dress at j.crew over the weekend, a cute tie-front metallic linen dress. The dress looked crisp and sharp, and I could change it up with jewelry/shoes. I went back tonight to try it on, but all of the ones on the rack looked, well, disgruntled. The poor things were wrinkled and scrunched up, which translates into a fabulous entrance, then looking crumpled as soon as I stood up after the ceremony.