I just looked online at Costco as well…they had four dresses. They were cute. But I’m not sure for a wedding.
If she is looking for white…have them look at christening dresses on Amazon…or anywhere for that matter. Lots of selection…and those can be accessorized with a colored sash. Kids get christened year round…
An example of what I meant above:
We are attending destination wedding for a relative in July. The people officiating the ceremony were asking today about where to stay and if a block of rooms has been reserved and when the rehearsal will be and if there are any pre it post wedding activities.
Father of bride (MOB is deceased) said hmmmm, he rented a house (for him, our family, bride, and bride’s BFF, her H and baby), but and is driving up on Wednesday for Friday wedding. We are paying 50%, FOB is paying 50%.
FOB believes the wedding is Friday 4 or 4:30. He believes perhaps there will be an optional float down river the Saturday after wedding. He thinks it would be fine for officiants to arrive Thursday and rehearse that day.
Bride and groom had no info when we had asked them as well several times. We are flying in from HNL, LA, and DC. The couple sent a save the date but no info on where to stay or any details.
Ok, we are having our first hiccup. Everything was going too smoothly. Even our 17 year veteran wedding planner is stumped by this. She is doing all she could to peacefully navigate this.
As it turns out, the weekend D1 is getting married there are 6 weddings in this fairly small college town. D1 booked a hall on campus for her ceremony a year ago because she didn’t want to get married in a church. Another bride booked a church on campus for a wedding right after D1’s wedding. Those 2 facilities are fairly close to each other, and are close to the college’s bell tower. When you have events on campus you could pay for the bells to chime for half an hour, especially if you are renting the church. The problem we are having is the other bride is going to have the bells go off during D1’s ceremony. The bells are very loud, the sound would drawn out the ceremony.
Our planner is trying to get them to move the chime, but they are not amiable to it right now. Our planner has done many events on campus, so the school knows her very well and because of that the school has not approved the chime for the other wedding yet. Our planner is trying to honor both brides’ “dream weddings.”
D1 is besides herself over this. I told her the worst scenario would be for us to move the ceremony up by half an hour, but our invitations were already mailed.
How long do the bells actually ring for? What’s the scope of the noise interference here?
@doschicos
@oldfort said…the bells chime for a half hour.
Hope there is some sort of way to get a compromise on this one @oldfort. It sounds like your wedding planner is excellent…and very on top of things!
We are starting to get RSVP for DDs wedding…and that is exciting.
DD sent me a text with a picture of the newly renovated bar area! What?? Well apparently the had a burst pipe during the cold spell in January. The redo is almost finished, and I have to say…I like it a lot. They used to have carpet, and now it’s a nice light stone tile of some sort. Also, they moved the bar to a different spot, made it a tad smaller, and opened up the room…a lot.
Thank goodness this didn’t happen nearer to DDs wedding! I hope they didn’t lose any business!
oops. Missed that. Yup. That would be an issue. Could you possible ask them to agree to just a few minutes in a celebratory way while exiting the church. Who would want bells to ring for that long anyway? Sounds headache inducing even if it was your own wedding.
Back in the day, my college roommate had the bells chime at her wedding. It was beautiful, and really, I could have listened for hours. They are really beautiful to hear, and it’s not like someone is clanging a bell in your ears. It is beautiful sort of background music as you exit the church and mingle. My roommate had her receiving line there too…with the lovely bells chiming.
When the bells chime, it could be heard through out the campus (this is a large campus), and this hall and church are very close to the bell tower.
At this school they do not have a centralized place to book facilities for events, so people who signed the contract with the other wedding party was not aware of D1’s ceremony. The other family and planner are under the impression that by booking the church they have the right to play the bells, but it is not the case. They would have first dip to the chime during the time they are using the church, but the school doesn’t need to grant it if they do not want to. The school is holding back at this time and hoping we could work it out.
Could the later wedding have 15 minutes if chimes before her ceremony and 15 minutes after her ceremony? That would still give her 39 minutes bracketing her ceremony and give your kid time to hear her ceremony.
If the other wedding is just after yours, are they planning to ring the bells before their service? Or you mean the services overlap and the other bride booked her service after you did? It would be unusual, imo, to ring before a service.
They want to ring the bells before their service, and then a marching band after the service. They booked their event after D1, but it is at the school church, whereas D1’s ceremony at a nearby hall. D1 also booked the chime, but it is not going to be during the other family’s ceremony.
I would worry about moving your ceremony up by half an hour if the invitations have gone out already. There will be people who miss that detail and come late.
I’m sorry but that other family must be a loud family. Bells and a marching band? Where are the cannons?
Just heard back from the wedding planner. The school is going to deny chimes for both weddings. I think that’s fair.
Yay!
Too bad you don’t get them, but this works to soothe nerves. Will you have other music that cam be ramped up, if you need a rousing recessional?
And a marching band sounds just weird.
Unless one of the B/G was in that college’s marching band… it is weird. 
We think the band may be fairly small because it is after the school is closed, but it is before the alumni week. I think it is strange to have a marching band too. D1 is having a string trio for the ceremony. We are hoping we would be at our reception by the time the bands shows up.
I was in the Michigan Marching Band. I don’t find it that strange, esp if they met in college band. But maybe they didn’t.
In New Orleans, many weddings have Line Dance bands that march the bridal party all kinds of places.