Kleinfeld's!

Okay, so this blog post is slightly out of order. The truth is that we found The Dress before we went to Kleinfeld's, but because I had to make an appointment months in advance to get in, and they would have charged me 100 dollars if I didn't show up, we figured we ought to go. After all, Julie said it's a "stop on the train to your wedding dress destination!"

So on a cold March day, I went to the famous Kleinfeld's with some very special guests: Julie, baby Elle, Amanda (who works at the church where our ceremony will be), my mom, and Lisa Beth, who drove all the way from Boston just for this! She totally deserves an award for that trek!



(Here's me, Julie, and baby Elle standing outside of Kleinfeld's!)

Now, having never seen "Say Yes to the Dress," I had no idea what Kleinfeld's was all about, so it was great that Lisa Beth was there--she knew who all the bridal consultants were and everything! That made her a great asset in dress shopping--she knew all the right questions to ask and had a great eye for the dresses! She even knew one of the designers, who'd appeared on the show and was having a trunk show that day. The designer's name was Pnina Tourne, and she came to talk with me directly about a dress I had on (as she walked over, Lisa Beth was so excited: "I can't believe you're going to talk to Pnina Tourne!" she said. And I'm going, "Who?"). Now, let me tell you about that dress: like the one at Bridal Reflections, it had a hoop. But the hoop was EMUNGOUS (that enormous and humongous lumped together)! It was so huge I could barely get through the door, and I had to squeeze the hoop to get through the frame! That said, the dress was really fun to have on, and I loved wearing it. The problem: the 10,000 dollar price tag!

Since the dress was, uh, a bit out of my price range, it wasn't The Dress, but we did sneak some pictures so it would be immortalized. Here is the dress and baby Elle's reaction to it. Baby Elle, by the way, was probably the biggest hit at Kleinfeld's, way more memorable than any of the dresses, which just goes to show: it's the people, and not the dress, that make the wedding!