Too Late For My Dress?

If it's in your budget, I would highly recommend going to DB's and getting the dress you fell in love with. It's very sweet to want to wear your mom's dress, but you should wear something you love! And you're right, I wouldn't wanna change my moms dress too much either if I was going to wear it, I'd be worried I'd change it too much and hurt her feelings.

Get the dress YOU love

Get the DB dress! Your mothers dress will always be a special keepsake. But not knowing how it will look after alterations is a little scary. At least u know how the DB dress will look final product!

You certainly have time to get the DB dress if it’s your dream dress. If it’s in the budget, I’d personally ....do both! Wear mom’s dress for ceremony and your DB choice for reception (or vice versa if that makes more sense!)

I would do that too. I was trying to save money too. I fell in love with a dress way out of my budget. I kept going back to it and after many months, i ended up getting it. I know in your head your thinking its only one day. But when you take pictures, you want to look at those pictures and be happy with the decision you made. If you do get a dress from DB, their brand takes 2 weeks to come in. Hope this helps.

Hi y'all-- Update!

I'm super paranoid when I think too much about something important and I told my FH how I was feeling about being anxious and procrastinating and he very straight-forwardly told me I just need to text my great-aunt and take the dress to her. So, I did! And I'm going over there on Sunday.

I appreciate all your kind words about getting the dress I love from DB, but I'm determined to make this work.

I think I have this problem in my head where I think I'm going to get in trouble for everything I do, so I was worried that my aunt would say that 1) we didn't have enough time for the dress and it was my fault because I procrastinated and 2) that I was terrible for wanting to change my moms dress when it's so special to have.

And honestly, I felt guilty about wanting to make changes to the dress, but my dad is okay with it (and it was his idea for me to wear it), and my aunt said she'll see "what we need to do to it". So all is well now!

Seven months should be fine if you're ordering from DB! My dress from there arrived in-store roughly 2-3 weeks after it was ordered. I think you'll have ample time for alterations if you get a dress ASAP