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[geekchick]

You know what's more fun than concalls?

A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Actually though, what's more fun than either of those is window shopping for expensive dresses you'll probably wear once. XD

• Like this, except not really into the strapless thing.
  
• This I'd want to see in person, but again with the strapless. (Optional spaghetti straps don't count.) Although the more I look at it, the less I'm even interested in seeing it in person.
  
• I saw a passing reference to a copyright lawsuit by David's Bridal against the distributor of these dresses, I wonder if this would be part of the problem? ;) (See this for reference.) Come to think of it, I've seen more than a couple that bear striking similarity to things carried at David's for twice the price or more. [Edit: not a direct copy, but it certainly seems to be "inspired by"]
  
• Pretty! In a slightly larger size (curse you bridal gown designers and your refusal to give in to vanity sizing like everyone else!), with a chapel train instead of cathedral and the ruffle gone? Near perfect.
  
• A fine excuse to order a dress from Yosa or Kambriel, of course.
  
• Yikes.  This deserves a spot on And the Bride Wore... An acquaintance owns a bridal boutique that carries this line; to me, it looked better on the hanger than it does on this model (and that's not to imply it was attractive on the hanger). As much as I'd be happy to support her new business, the stock tends towards higher-end dresses. If I'm going to spend $8000 on any one thing that's not a kickass party with my friends, it's going to be the honeymoon and not a dress I wear once and then spend even more money to store away in a box.
  

I'd sort of joked about Vegas before, but...pirate ship! How cool is that? There's also the choice over at Paris of a ceremony on the Eiffel Tower, but only at 9:30 AM (!!) unless you want to spring for the twilight ceremony at ten grand. (Thanks, but no; see above about what I'm willing to spend that much money on.)

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Um, wow.
y'know, it's possible to add to a strapless, not just with spaghetti straps.

and i quite like the david's gown (link didn't work but I know the dress). The kambriel is scary.

[geekchick]

y'know, it's possible to add to a strapless, not just with spaghetti straps.

Oh yeah, there's a few things that can be done, one of the dresses has an optional bolero jacket.

link didn't work but I know the dress

Yeah, it seems to be pretty popular. =) The links weren't working because my client "helpfully" encoded all the ampersands in the URLs and apparently broke the query strings.

The one at Kambriel I think needs a better picture or three.

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

The kambriel is scary.

If I'm going to wear any of the dresses mentioned (see below), it's going to be the Kambriel hands down, no contest. It's custom so it'd actually fit, and it looks very affordable. And did I mention OMG sexy!?! It's so hot I'm gonna email them about making me one of the top half/jackets, just because. :)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

hee.
I think it was the gothiness and looking on my machine it looked more wrinkly than pleated.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grins) I'd love to see you in #1 or #4 someday... have you guys set a date?

[wolfy.livejournal.com]

window shopping for expensive dresses you'll probably wear once

Right at home with this one :p


I told you, make C. wear the dress.

Better yet really confuse people go with a Priest and nun theme.

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

I told you, make C. wear the dress.

What do you mean "make him"? ;P It wouldn't take arm-twisting, that's for sure! If I do wear a dress, though, don't hold your breath. I'm not cross dressing for something like that until I'll be happy with how I look, and that's still a bunch of dieting in the future.

Since it's a pirate ship, there is always the Jack Sparrow option...

random comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

* I loved the "Mars Attacks!" theme dress. :^D

& I saw a dress in a magazine a while back that was like that super-poofy one. It was some actress and her dog. I commented to my friend that this would be one of those dresses that, in the future, the woman would look back on and say "WHAT was I THINKing?" If you can believe it, it was worse than the one you posted a link to. Think puffy candy stripes. And a little yapper dog. OMG.

# What does it say about me that I liked all of the ones they denigrated as "too costumey"? Well, some of them were a bit over the top, but not as much as I think they thought they were.

% Interesting that they're showing so many things with bold color accents on them. I did that myself, 16 years ago, but it pretty much Was Not Done at the time.

@ I think many of the "strapless" ones might be improved with a shrug or bolero jacket. At least one of them showed a "matching" sheer jacket you could order separately. You could always get a seamstress to make one to match, especially if you ordered extra fabric with the dress (expensive, but might be worth it).

Re: random comments

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Ya gotta go with the Yosa and the pirate ship!

Well, definitely the Yosa. You'd wear it again!