I said yes to my dress yesterday! And became a new member of the "totally not what I expected my dress to be" club. (Long-ish dress shopping story inside)

My dressWhen I first started looking at dresses, I knew I wanted lace and a dress that was ivory/blush. When I started my search, I was firmly in the mermaid camp, but as I started trying dresses on, it just wasn't the most flattering shape on me; my problem area is my lower stomach, and they all seemed to show it off so much.So I moved more into ball gowns and a-lines. All of the dresses I tried on were either full lace, or the lace tapered off halfway through the skirt in tendrils and the edging was plain. All very pretty, but they were all missing something that I couldn't place.In pictures, I was never a huge fan of textured skirts or horsehair trim, I thought a lot of them looked a bit messy. But when we went in to the store and I started picking out dresses, this one really caught my eye. It was the first one on the rack, a beautiful blush color, and had beautiful lace. My MoH grabbed it right up and said I had to try it on. It was on the front of the hanger in the fitting room, too, so I decided to go for that one first.Guys, this dress. I hadn't had any really big emotional reaction to any dresses, I assumed that I just wasn't going to be that type, but this dress. My mom cried, I cried, my MoH cried, the consultant teared up. I didn't want to take it off or go try on the other dresses we pulled. The consultant handed me a paper bouquet from the waiting area, in my wedding colors already, and I was sold.I also kind of balked at the floor length veil, it seemed like a lot of material, but the more I look at it, the more it grows on me. So that might be another choice I wasn't planning on.Now that I have the dress ordered, I'm finally getting excited about wedding planning. My FH works at our wedding venue, so he already knows all of the vendors he wanted and took all the hard legwork out of that aspect. Not having to do that really disjointed me from wedding planning, it didn't feel real, and I didn't really have much drive to do any real planning for the details of the wedding that my FH left up to me (decorations, flowers, etc; my mom was shocked that I wasn't more excited about the flowers while we were waiting for my appointment looking at Pinterest). Now I'm actually really looking forward to starting on some DIY projects and get down to planning.So, TL;DR: don't be afraid to try on that dress that seems totally wrong for you. It might end up being the one. via /r/weddingplanning http://ift.tt/2uLUoQF