Broken zips and dropped stitches

My dress has arrived!

It has made its long journey from China and is now hanging in my spare room. I love it! Who would have thought you could buy a wedding dress for £90?! 

In reality it is going to cost slightly more than that as it needs so alterations doing but it is still definitely a bargain!

Unfortunately the 1st time I tried it on the zip broke! I had a friend from work helping me get in it and as she zipped it up the zip broke. She was absolutely mortified!! I really didn't mind though as I would much rather it break now when we are able to put in a stronger one than for it to happen in the day! 

There are a couple of stitches which have also fallen out and the length of it is too long. I have made an appointment with a seamstress for a couple of weeks time for her to have a look at it and let me know how much it will cost for her to do the work it needs.

Overall I am really pleased with it. I knew when I bought it that I would probably need to do some alterations and the things that need doing are pretty easy things. They are just little issues with finishing plus the big but easily sorted issue of a broken zip!

I soooo want to put a photo of it on here as I love it so much but I am going to resist! You will need to wait until after the big day for photos!

Invitations, chewed post and other weddings!

This week we have ordered our invitations. We were going to do them ourselves but then we saw some really nice ones online for no more than it would cost us to do them not to talk of cutting out the hassle! Coming up with the wording of the invites and submitting it to be put on them made us realise this is going to be happening for real! Yes of course we know it is going to happen but it sunk in a little deeper through the invitation process! It is all sooooooo exciting.

Creating the invitations made me think of a problem we may have further down the line. We have two dogs who like eating post! When we go out we shut them in the front and often we come home to chewed post. At Christmas they had eaten the box of perfume we had ordered online for Mark's sister! This made me realise that if we are asking people to RSVP to our address then it is likely we would never see these RSVPs and if we do they could be unreadable! So I have finally bought a post cage! This has arrived and we now just to fit it over our letterbox and gone will be the days of chewed post!

On Friday we went to a wedding of one of Mark's university friends. He found it a bit if a surreal event in so far as there being quite a lot of ex girlfriends there who he hasn't seen for a long time! It made me think of Scott Pilgrim vs the Workd - a terrible but apt film! It was a lovely wedding and throughout it all I was thinking about how the next one we'll be at will be our own! Again very exciting!