Treasure 6…my wedding dress
Posted under Material things I love, People I love, Ten Treasures
I’m not sure that my wedding dress is a very sensible addition to the Ten Treasures list, given that I’m unlikely to wear it again (not least because I’ll never fit in it again). But it is very special to me, and symbolises the day I finally dragged MrSpud up the aisle and enslaved him to me every bit as much as my pile of bling. For, although I dig and poke fun at MrSpud and make him the butt of all my jokes, I completely adore him and my marriage to him is the foundation of the very blessed life that I lead. I thank the sun and the stars for MrSpud and feel so lucky to be married to him, apart from when he balls up his dirty socks and leaves them all over the house like love gifts. Then I just feel cross with him and give him the evils.
Oh how I wept on my wedding day; not tears of sorrow, nor tears of joy (OK one or two might have crept out), but tears of laughter. I was laughing my pretty white beaded arse off at MrSpud who, only a few years earlier, had earnestly vowed that he would never marry me nor ever have children. Ho ho ho…look how well that worked out for him. In his defense, he did offer to go out with me ‘forever’ but that just didn’t have the same kind of ring to it as the whole ‘in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live’ kind of agreement.
My wedding dress is the only piece of couture clothing that I own and it was worth every one of the many pennies it cost. It sparkled in the candlelight and I felt like a million dollars all evening. I couldn’t breathe or eat in it but these are mere details that we should not concern ourselves with as it looked the business. SECRET TREASURE….a flower from my mother’s wedding dress is sewn in to the lining. My mother died long before I met MrSpud but I know she would have adored him, admired his cleverness, fondess for caffeine, his quirky sense of humour and his total devotion to his family.
The dress is hanging in my wardrobe hoping, against hope, that I might actually get round to getting it cleaned sometime soon. It’s been nearly 5 years now, you can’t rush these things. If I’d had girl children I might have considered chopping it up to make a Christening gown; another reason to be grateful for my boy children as I’m not sure I actually had it in me to hack that beautiful Italian hand beaded fabric about.
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Oh SPUD: you look so beautiful and glamourous, I HATE my wedding pictures, but oooo boy, that is right out of couture magazine.
Absolutely stunning! Chop up couture? (Gasp!) And I still haven’t cleaned my gown… 14 years later you realize procrastination is the worst culprit. It still resides in a closet in my mother’s house where it was hung the day after our wedding. :P
happily ever after. xxx
Wow. You look really really stunning! Lurve your dress and your hair all up and spirally. That’s a great picture. Did you get married somewhere exotic?
Like Shereiner, my dress is also still being stored at my parents’ house (oops,the last 12 years!). I put it on and flounced around in it a few years after Anna was born…I still love it. But if I was getting married today, I’d do it differently.
Wow! You do not look like a Spud in that dress. Incredible photo, stunning woman. I enjoyed the post very much. Was particularly touched by the line, “I completely adore him and my marriage to him is the foundation of the very blessed life that I lead.”
So glad you shared.
oh so glad you don’t need to chop it up for a girl, imagine all those gorgeous beads rolling around, it would become a mess! keep it like a precious piece of art!
you look so beautiful! and you write such sweet things about mr spud – we’ll all fall in love with him ;-)
That truly is a lovely dress and you look divine it it. What a wonderful treasure!
Beautiful dress, beautiful picture and beautiful you! How could Mr Spud resist?
Hey – can’t see the pics… will look at work tomorrow but I’m sure you look amazing. My dress is wadded up in a bag in my closet…still had curry sauce on it, one of the guests nipped next door at the reception and got some chips and curry sauce. Couldn’t resist and of course spilled it on me dress luvvy.
I was at this post yesterday, but didn’t comment. What to say without sounding all crazed-stalkerish? You do look amazing. And, yes, the dress is incredible.
My thought on the girl-child? You’ll have daughters-in-law and granddaughters some day. One of them can wear the dress in her wedding. She’ll want to, trust me.
Wow – absolutely stunning. My dress was chopped into a Christening gown but I’m not sure I could have done that with your dress