Unfortunately, unless you are 5’10", it is likely the dress is going to need hemming. My daughter is 5’4", maybe 5’5", and one dress was ridiculously long. The other bridesmaid was 6’ and it was a perfect length for her.
The short dresses fit my daughter fine. She got one bridesmaid dress for $9.99 and it was perfect.
My FDIL looked at a lot of dresses at shops in two cities before finally finding one that could be altered to fit her. She’s 6’0", and needed a tall size because of the proportions. No hemming needed, though! She hasn’t mentioned the cost of alterations, but I suspect it wasn’t terrible. The price structure for that kind of labor is quite different than in this country.
I still don’t know if S2 is wearing the $19 tux or the $175 suit.
Finally recovered from my sons wedding weekend two weeks ago. Everything was fabulous and it was a very fun weekend.
Their wedding (50 people) was at San Francisco City Hall which is absolutely beyond stunning. The bride was beautiful, and my granddaughters as flower girls were absolutely adorable. My son the groom and my son the best man were both handsome. Dinner that night was fun (cocktail style so lots of mingling).
The reception the next day (150 people) was great. Again the bride and groom looked fabulous. The venue was great. The food was delicious. My son, the best man, gave a fabulous speech.
They did it their way. Very short ceremony, no cake, very good food and the photos will be incredible. The bride is in fashion and both her dresses were stunning. She bought my granddaughters dresses for both days and picked out and paid for both of my son, the best man’s, suits.
I was happy with both of my dresses. Wrangling 4 grandchildren (4,2,1,5mos) in the city had its challenges but it was a super fun weekend.
In San Francisco we enjoyed the Ferry Building, the Exploratorium, the Presidio, etc…
Congrats to all! Sounds wonderful.
Oh, there should always be cake. You should have one now that you are home and just assign the calories to the wedding.
Learned last night that my niece got engaged and is looking at the weekend following DD’s wedding, not knowing that DD had a date set. At least she didn’t pick the same weekend so it should be fine but busy for us all. Made sure DD got on the family chat then to make her date known before anything else happens! I really hadn’t thought about telling extended family the date yet.
There are four girl cousins engaged/almost engaged so we’ve been mulling over how it will all go down.
sounds like busy and fun times for the extended family. Good idea to share dates if they’ve been selected and others may be looking at dates.
We only have 3 engagements (2 are mine) and my nephew grabbed a weekend first. Luckily, neither of my kids want a date anywhere near that. I think that’s the biggest reason to get a date and make it known early, if you expect others to have a conflict (another wedding, graduation, big anniversary party).
And put that date out early once you know it, for those you especially want to be there. We told a couple aunts and an uncle the date quickly, at about 8 months out, a couple months before any official save the dates were sent out. The guest list was primarily the friends of the bride and groom, but we did have a very small amount of family we wanted to be sure to include.
My niece is getting married at the end of September. I found out that my son will be the only first cousin who will attend. She has only 5 first cousins, my daughter won’t be able to make the trip and all the cousins on my niece’s mother’s side have a long planned vacation and won’t be there either.
So many schedules to work around, I guess you try and do what you can. And come to what works.
As it was, as notified my sibs as soon as S put down his deposit, as that venue set the date. As it was, my sis had to modify her travel plans, which she had made months prior (about a year+ out). S is her godS and she doesn’t want to miss his wedding. She tries to attend all nieces & nephews weddings of us and her ILs.
Wedding went well! Beautiful weather (a little windy), photographer, wedding planner, cake, flowers, food, drinks, all went as planned. Transportation too and from the venue was great. When everyone saw the road going up the mountain they were really glad to have it! Veil showed up at the last minute, rehearsal dinner almost rained out but it stopped just before and we had a beautiful rainbow that lasted for most of the dinner on the rooftop. Bride was stunning, my son was handsome, my grandson (3) made it up the aisle with the empty ring box and gave it right to the best man. The first dances were perfect, the best man made a wonderful speech.
Only things not totally perfect: There was a mirror at the entrance that had their names on it and showed where to go. Right after everyone arrived it blew over and shattered. The unity candle wouldn’t light in the wind and caused some confusing moments. Then the thing I always thought was a bad idea was. They had candles in glass containers at the ends of each row. By the end about a third of them had been knocked over and broken. Mainly as people were leaving their seats. (her mother’s idea) Then the mother of the bride hogged the photographer to the point we never got the family picture from our side. We were waiting on one person and she was yelling that the lighting was perfect for her family and we needed to be done. She definitely excluded our family from a lot of things. I won’t say much since they paid for most of it but I felt a little sad.
Honeymoon in Cancun seems to be going well but a little rainy. They really did miss going to Maui and in hindsight probably should have gone. On the news the day of their wedding the local news was telling people not to cancel their vactions and if their hotels were open to come. That made them second guess cancelling. Overall though very beautiful! I think they are coming back tonight or tomorrow morning before the major tropical storm hits!
Glad to hear the wedding went well.
I’ve thought about the kids and the honeymoon also. They should have gone. Hindsight is 20/20. Can’t change it and I hope they are enjoying Cancun.
I understand the island of Maui does want visitors & their spending, but is still trying to recover and shelter all those who are unhoused due to fires. It’s a tough balance but I personally don’t want to visit at this time with the chaos and destruction. It would be very depressing to me.
Daughter went wedding dress shopping. She’s still thinking things over. She might have found the one she wants but would like to make an alteration to add straps. Simple change.
The shop said for her to order her size according to her measurements.
It’s a brand called Grace loves Lace. Apparently the dress is pretty stretchy. And the size of the dress she liked can be customized. One size on the top and another on the bottom. And hemmed to length.
Then again, she might completely change her mind. That happens.
Grace makes each dress to size! So no alterations usually needed. My kid seriously considered one of her dresses but then went with a less lacy dress (Pronovias).
My D was able to custom order one size on top and another on the bottom. She also changed the back from straight across to a v-back, and she was able to change the bottom so that the drop under her butt was at the perfect place. All of that only added $100 to the cost (2017).
Good idea to focus on all the things that went so well! Truly the most important parts of the wedding did! MOB, that was rude with the picture taking!
awesome 
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@momocarly When waiting for ‘one last person’ - should have just gone ahead and gotten the group picture.
I think the photographer had a certain number of pictures in mind for groups, and I asked the bride if one could be made with MOB/siblings (with or w/o bride and groom), and bride gave me a response about limited number of group pictures by photographer. So a few minutes later, I asked my brother and siblings to gather, and another person took a picture of us using my sister’s camera. Well, all of a sudden, the photographer decided to take our group picture. Go figure.