@TatinG , the dress is lovely. As for the Spanx, I definitely am aware of the crotch slit … and I have a piece of logistical advice: Before you squat, grab a bunch of tp. You will need both hands to hold the slit apart, so having the tp right there in hand will make life a whole lot easier. Life hack!
There is no way I’m using the slot.
The other problem with the slit is that you can sometimes miss. Don’t ask me how I know.
Lovely dress in such beautiful color! Excellent choice.
It’s a very lovely dress! You will look great!
Woohoo. Dress arrived today. But with the train…it is long…so right now it’s on a double bed in an extra bedroom. Trying to figure out if I can hang it anywhere.
@thumper1, if you have cats, suggest you not let them anywhere near the dress. (Sorry, just had a vision of my little Bengal deciding the train was too much fun to resist and shredding it or something like that).
@1214mom the dress is in a room with the door closed and not able to be opened by anyone but a human.
D just got her final alterations done. She says it’s awesome - I am going to see the final product this weekend. Can’t wait! The tailor sewed her belt onto the dress and put snaps to fasten it in the back. The only thing she has left to do with it is to have it pressed - she’ll do that next week. 2 weeks from tonight!!! 
@Thumper1: Can you hang the dress on a hanger and hang the train on another hanger next to it? – the kind of hanger with a pants bar on it?
@VeryHappy I’m going to try that tomorrow…trouble is…I need to totally empty out a closet to fit this dress in.
It’s fine, in the meantime…laid out flat on the bed.
@kelsmom my DD’s belt is also now sewn onto the dress. It looks terrific.
Lots of good tips and tricks. Will see how nephew’s wedding is on the 12th. We are driving and still planning…I probably will be up all night.
Have DD’s graduation 150 miles from here, and we will drive some for our first hotel stay (flagship town has ridiculous rates at graduation and football game weekends, and hearing from parents about canceled rooms because some hotels overbooked and then lied about trying to contact them…and greedy owners/managers wanted to honor reservations at much higher prices --some get managerial bonuses…parents have raised a fuss and major TV channel has picked up on it and has put their crew on it).
Well…today I went to Sephora and dropped some money on new makeup. For DDs wedding, my makeup is being done…but I’m going to three others by mid September…so…I figured I needed some lessons.
I also got new wireless glasses…and I love them. My eyes really show…so I needed some help with eye make up.
Now we will see if I can do it myself!
O.M.G.
We are about 7 weeks away from DS’s wedding, and my #(&#(%&%&#_$(&Q@ DH decides to get a haircut that makes him look like a drill sergeant!! Its a side buzzcut with a “not-quite-but-almost” flattop. It looks AWFUL. And I begged him not to do it!!! His hair better grow dam*ed fast in the next several weeks or he will look ridiculous in the wedding photos , to be saved for posterity. UGH!!! I hate it. Did I say I hate it? I HATE it!
Reminds me of D2, who decided two weeks before senior photos to dye her hair blue (her one and only foray ever into any alternative hair color for her lovely, glossy, auburn looks-like-a-L’Oréal-commercial hair). She was at camp, forgot about the upcoming photos, and a friend talked her into it.
Average hair grows .5 inches per month — so an inch is about all you can hope for.
An inch of new hair growth on a guy is a lot. It should be fine…as long as he doesn’t cut it…again
D1 is not allowing us to do anything to ourselves without her prior approval. She has me on 5 tanning sessions because she decided I needed some color. D2 is not allowed to cut her hair until after the wedding. At this point whatever D1 wants I am pretty much saying, “It is a great idea.”
We just got her bridal shower pictures back and they looked really nice. There were some great pictures of my mother with us. I cherish those moments now.
Oh, this is what I hate now…I’ve had few guests texted me their dresses to me to see if they are ok. Well, if they were showing me options then maybe I would pick one over another, but if they were showing me one dress then what do they expect me to say, “Arrrg, it is ugly, don’t wear it?”
My MIL did that too @oldfort …sent me a pic of her dress…what was I going to say if I hated it (was fine). But when I mentioned it to DHs sister, I was told…she has something different to wear now…so WTH? Honestly, I don’t care what the guests wear as long as it’s appropriate to the occasion, and not a wedding gown!
And at this point I’ve perfected my “smile and nod”.