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Well we finally got a hold of Astraad's youngest sister for a dress modelling session and settled on a design and colour for our three bridesmaids. I spend a fair proportion of Saturday nodding and smiling as different dresses were tried. Incidentally the bridesmaid's boyfriend buggered off and left me with the girls when this was going on, I don't blame him I guess but a bit of solidarity would have been nice; I felt bloody conspicuous as the only male in the shop. :D
In case anyone is interested the dress can be found here. We settled on the colour called "smashing" (third row down third column in), it's a bit pinker in real life compared to the web page. A sort of dusky red wine colour I guess. Anyway, we couldn't have cut it any finer think. The dresses will take 3-4 months to be made, which is damn close to our wedding date. No clue why they should take so long, maybe specially trained dress fairies have to be clapped to life or something bloody stupid. Whatever the case, I wish we hadn't held on so long for Astraad's sister when deciding on a dress; we've got little to no room for error now :(
Now, I'd like to say that's one source of stress out of the way, but I'd be lying. The logistics of getting dresses made and sent to different ends of the country (the bridesmaids don't live in the same place) for fitting is a disaster waiting to happen IMO. Still I've paid for them so at least that's covered, just don't ask me how much and I won't cry ;)
Anyhoo, that delight covered I've now got to set about hiring suits for myself, my best man and ushers... Again this could be an adventure at least one of them isn't in the country right now. However, the silver lining in this case is that I can rely on my friends and family to turn up and get the job done with the minimum of fuss, so as soon as my errant usher is back in the UK I'm sure I can get everything sorted easily.
Gift.
PS found a picture, albeit in the wrong colour and a bit small. Still if the flash thingie on the company's web page is too much of a pain at least you can get an idea from the photo.
