Back in July, I had a lovely reader contact me about a Maggie Sottero wedding dress I had purchased for the sole purpose of wearing during a photo shoot. I told her that I no longer needed it and would willingly sell it to her. Here's a picture of the dress:
She requested that we get things sorted out before my wedding day so I wouldn't have to worry about it after the honeymoon, and she would get the dress much sooner. I totally agreed. What I failed to realize is that in the midst of last minute wedding errands, my mind would be completely chaotic with to-do lists and other wedding minutae. Three days before my wedding, I picked up my freshly steamed wedding gown and my mother's dress for the wedding from my seamstess and hung it on the door frame of my guest bedroom. In my next set of errands, I was going to drop off the Maggie Sottero dress to the UPS store to have it shipped to my lovely reader. I got the dress ready and hung it on the exact same door frame as my wedding gown. {smart idea?}
My bridesmaid, Carla, and I went to the UPS store with the dress to ship. As we were standing in the UPS store, I looked at Carla and said, "I grabbed the WRONG dress!!" Her response was "What do you mean you grabbed the wrong dress? No you didn't."
I unzipped the white garment bag to find MY wedding dress. My dress. My freshly steamed, silk white, lace Demetrios wedding dress that fit me like a glove. I freaked!
How did I almost ship my wedding dress to someone else 3 days before my wedding? That's simple. I laid them next to each other. The kicker, however, is how I figured out it was the wrong one.
Three hours prior to the incident, Carla and I were in Ocala picking up my dress and my mother's dress from Debbie (my seamstress). Just as I was walking out the door, she asked me really quick if I wanted to keep the extra pink fabric from the shawl she made for my mother. I hesitated for a few seconds before saying yes, and then she threw it at the bottom of my dress bag. The only reason I did not ship out my own wedding dress is because I saw the slightest hint of pink fabric shining through the very bottom of the white dress bag!! Now that's what I call Angels watching over me. :O) {And thank you Debbie for the extra pink fabric!!}
To make it fair, I chose after pictures from the ones that were put up on Facebook by my friends and not digitally enhanced/edited professional images. 
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