I‘m fairly certain I have a problem. I think I am an addict… an addict of the very worst kind…a wedding addict. I can’t help myself! If I’m messing around on Facebook and a white dress appears on the timeline, I’m there. I don’t care how bad the pictures are, whether they’re using on-camera direct flash, people are bending their knees on group photographs to let other heads be seen, whether there’re nasty shadows, people practically in darkness; it doesn’t matter, I still have a nosy! But then if the pictures are lovely it’s even worse! I will spend even longer looking at each one in detail and of course searching out THE DRESS. I absolutely love looking at the wedding dress, finding out what style they went for: fitted dresses, corsets, different colours, intricate details, diamontes, lace, velvet, veils, birdcage veils, tiaras… you name it I have searched it out. It’s even more fun if I know the people but that’s not necessary; like I said addicts don’t care about such trivial things as knowing the people… if my friend’s friend’s uncle’s third wife’s neighbour once knew them in secondary school in the 80s it does not matter, I will always look out out for them and lock onto them like a heat seeking missile.
I’m afraid to say my wedding addiction has passed on further than just to Facebook… twitter is now a regular haunt, I follow so many wedding suppliers for my work and they tweet about weddings. A lot. And I love it, like the proverbial pig in (ahem)… muck I am in there. Checking out blogs, updates, statuses and websites, I’m afraid my little paw prints have been everywhere! Rest assure if you are posting anything about wedding dresses, cakes, flowers I will be following you (not in a creepy way!!) and soaking it all in like a sponge for the big day. I have spoken to lots of suppliers, sometimes for fun and sometimes for enquires and I love it, the whole darn kaboodle.
The trouble with this addiction is that my drug is just too easy to get hold of… in fact, I’ll let you into a little secret: right now I am HIGH! I just got a massive fix from an unusual source: The Daily Mail. Now, I was in two minds whether to share this as if this is my drug then technically I’m pretty sure this turns me into some sort of dealer, but our legal team does assure me that wedding dresses are in fact a legal drug, although they did ask me to issue the following disclaimer:
DON’T DROOL ON WEDDING DRESSES…IT’S CONSIDERED SERIOUSLY BAD FORM!
So with that out of the way, you can find the article in question here. It’s a story of three brides and one very special dress, and an example of just how true it is that fashion goes round in cycles…
The beautiful lace dress that Dorothy Sampson bought for £30 back in 1959 looks just like the one worn by Kate Middleton, and would doubtless cost thousands of pounds to have made today after being brought back into fashion so spectacularly by the now Duchess of Cambridge. Lucky for Sarah Sampson then that her Grandmother’s dress had been kept in perfect condition for all these years; a fact even more remarkable as Sarah wasn’t the first Bride to follow in her Grandmother’s footsteps and wear this beautiful garment.
Dorothy married Sarah’s Grandfather on June 9th 1959, and on their silver wedding anniversary their daughter Catherine donned the same dress for her own wedding: a lovely idea of a joint celebration made more special by sharing this historic heirloom. So it was only fitting that Sarah should choose to follow her family history and choose the same (now incredibly fashionable) wedding dress as her mother and grandmother, and also to be married on the same now sacred date: 9th June.
I adore stories like this and love the idea of entwining personal family traditions into your wedding. Whether it be the dress, the wedding ring, a historical accessory or an old necklace, including part of your family history in the most important day of your life seems very fitting and a lovely way to include those most important to you in your special day.
Well that’s my fix for the day… ok maybe just one more teeny weeny Wedding blog to click through but that’s it… no more… just for…research! I am writing a blog here after all… and if that’s not a valid excuse then I don’t know what is!
My name’s Dominique and I… am an addict! Now hand me that Bridal Mag!!
