27 Dresses.....

Weddings...weddings...and more weddings! Since my early to mid-20s it seems a season does not pass without several friends getting engaged or married. I've been to more showers, engagement parties and nuptuals than I can count. I was actually the muse for the movie 27 dresses-you see....since I was soooo busy with my career in NYC they had to get Katherine Heigel to play the part(tehe!)


There's a lot that goes along with being a bridesmaid, The Time-to travel, searching for just the right gift, shopping for dresses, weekends devoted to showers, parties, wedding weekends; The Dresses-the puckering and squeezing in the weirdest places that give you fat in places you never knew you had it; The Money-oh dear...I wish some bank would create a high interest savings account devoted to bridesmaid-dome. One year I took a stroll down the isle 5 times in 6 months! It brought me to my knees and I prayed "God, if You wanted me in all these weddings, would you please just show me the $$$". What do ya know, the next month I booked a job modeling bridesmaid dresses that covered all 5 dresses-seriously-you gotta love a God with a sense of humor!!!
But seriously, I love it....I love every single minute of it!!! Having an excuse to spend all this extra time with my nearest and dearest girls and their families! Getting a front row seat to 2 lives integrating into one, there are few things in life more beautiful! There is a stunning vulnerability about a bride who knows she is in the center of God will. In addition, one of my favorite things about being a bridesmaid is the opportunity to serve these lovely ladies who usually wouldn't ask for help otherwise. I could care less what I have to wear, stick me in a burlap sack-but I will say I've got some wonderfully kind and confident brides to call friends who have been very gracious with their selections! Good thinkin'...because just like in 27 dresses you might be wearing those same dresses on my special day! :)

This whole stream of thought(or blog rather) was prompted by my dear friends Kate and Geoff's Wedding on June 14th. It was a wonderful 2 day event in Connecticut, with friends and family, old and new, from near and far! Alison Walla went above and beyond as our resident Martha Stuart Jr. But beyond everything else what mattered most to this gracious couple was that at the end of the day they would be husband and wife and that made everything else just icing on the cake!