Late Breaking News! She Found "The One!"

*cue the theme music from "Rocky"*

This afternoon the bride and I ventured back into the big city, back to the first store, back to the first salesgirl...

and found "the one".


The elusive one, the one that's been hidden in between the silver racks, the one that's been lurking among the reeds, the one that's been taunting us from the dense grove of trees, the one that...yea, ok I know, enough already...yep, we found the bride's wedding gown!

It's perfect for her. And yet not at all what I thought she would like in a wedding gown. Makes sense huh?

We went to the store armed with a short list of dresses she found online, pulled four off the rack and never got to the last one. Lucky number three was it. She tried it on and suddenly there it was. The Look. She hadn't had that look before with any of the other gowns. And then I couldn't get her out of it to go home.

After walking around the store with the gown on for about a half hour, I finally got her to give the gown back by promising to take her to Mickey D's for an ice cream cone. That usually works with Kaitlin. Not so much with Taryn. With Taryn, it usually takes cash.

So...after a few weeks of searching and stressing...

We have a wedding gown. 

We have a veil. 

We have a crinoline. 

We have a sash.

We have a necklace.

We have to tell her father how much it all cost.