Our wedding plans are coming along nicely.

There has been a bit of a saga over my dress, so I’m going to explain it all so you can understand how relieved I was last night to find out it was going ahead…

Firstly, I found the dress on eBay, and fell in love with it for its uniqueness. So I sent a message to the seller asking how much it would be and if the skirt part of the dress could be made smaller, to be told that it would be $170 + postage, and the dress’ skirt size is only as large as the hoop worn underneath. So that was awesome.

Then my mum came across another dressmaker, avabridal.com, who sell dresses on their site as well as make custom dresses. I emailed them for a quote on how much it would be for them to make and post the same dress. Their quote was about $50 more, which was fine with me because it was a guaranteed higher quality dress than the eBay seller’s (as they were aware of the quality of the eBay seller’s dresses).

However, we hit a glitch with AvaBridal when they told us that they wouldn’t be able to get the lace overlay of the dress in Hot Pink, and since my colours for the wedding are white, black and hot pink, it was kind of vital that they get it.

I asked if they might be able to dye some lace, or if they could get some in, and that it would be a guaranteed purchase from me if they could. I was told that the lace wouldn’t be able to be dyed, and that they would contact their fabric suppliers and find out if they could get anything in.

In the meantime, I contacted the eBay seller and asked if they were able to get the hot pink lace, because if both sellers couldn’t, then I’d essentially have to pick another dress. I never heard a response from the eBay seller, despite messaging them at least 3 times to ask.

So, much to my relief, I received an email last night from AvaBridal.com stating the following:

Hi Terri,
we can make the dress according to your requirements.

The overlay of the dress we can dye it in hot pink.

We’ll start immediately once payment is received. Dress will be finished and delivered to you in around four weeks after payment is cleared.

If you need the dress urgently, you can also place a rush order for a rush order processing fee of $50. For rush orders, dress will be finished and delivered in two and a half weeks.

If there are any questions or anything we can help, please feel free to contact us at any time.

Best regards,
Ava Bridal support team

This just made me so happy, beyond words. It means I can have my dream dress without too much more hassle (hopefully!). I just need to organise to make payment to them now.

In other planning, we ‘booked’ the venue for the ceremony today. The venue will still be open to the public, but we will have rights to park cars on the grass and such, unlike regular visitors.
And then tomorrow we’re meeting with our celebrant for our first consultation, to discuss what we’ll be doing and how we’ll be doing it, etc. and just get an idea of the process behind a ceremony!

Things left to do:

• Contact my Nan about her making our cake
• Contact my Auntie about MC’ing our reception
• Confirm venue for reception
• Finalise guest list
• Make and post invites out
• Buy shoes (for both of us!)
• Get Michael a suit
• Make my bouquet
• Send email addresses to my sister for Hen’s Day / Hen’s Night planning

So far, so good