The Dress Part Two: Commercial vs. Handmande

So I've been procrastinating about posting (amongst several other things completely un-wedding related). I'm here now though and will probably make a couple posts since Lawrence and I have made some headway in making decisions.
On April 30th, I thought, for fun, me and my ladies would go to our local David's Bridal so I could try on dresses. I invited Kat, Rebecca, Jessica, my mom and Lawrence's mom, Maria and all of them showed. I of course was not intending to purchase a dress but what's the use of having a wedding date if you can't use it to try on dresses? So we riffled through the plus size racks (I admit it, I'm plus sized) and pulled the allotted three dresses for me to try on. Let's call them dress A, dress B and dress C.

Dress A

Dress B

Dress C

Now all these dresses were pretty. I especially loved dress C because of the length. My bridal consultant also pulled a dress that everyone seemed to love.

Dress D

Dress C and D were top contenders but the $500 price tag of both made them unattainable. Honestly, I was a little confused. The dresses were beautiful and looked good on me but even if I had the money, I wasn't sure either of the dresses were what I wanted. As I was mulling things over, I got a call from my dad. He had seen the pictures of me in the dresses and loved dress D. To my surprise, he offered to buy me the dress! Thing was, though dress D was pretty and made me look pretty, it was not what I was looking for, it didn't fit the feel of the wedding I've been planning. By the end of the conversation with dad though, I got him to agree to help pay for whatever dress I decided to wear.

I now had commercially made dresses as an option. Though I wasn't set on buying a dress, I started looking around for dresses that fit my vision that were also around the same price as the David's Bridal dresses. On The Knot I found Dolly Couture, a designer of short wedding dresses that were just a bit over the $500 price point. Then an epiphany! At the beginning of the dress search, before the Vogue pattern, I had Unique Vintage bookmarked. When I had initially looked, their selection was limited but my second look yielded more results. In fact, I found the perfect dress. I also found a great dress to change into at the end of the night! Now we just have to order the dresses.