Right after the engagement announcement I got word that I’d be playing the part of bridesmaid. I was kind of excited, because if Becca is getting married it’s the real deal. I met this guy over Thanksgiving and to say I approve would be an understatement. Not that she needs my approval- but it sure is less gut-clenching when your friend isn’t marrying a total douche. It also means that there will be less surreptitious sipping from the whiskey flask, which would lead to fewer grain-fueled speeches about how their love is like a bb gun: not too painful and rarely fatal, unless you shoot them right in the eye.
The only issue I have is my selected bridesmaid dress:
Pretty, no? It is. Except when I put it on and it zips up to my bra strap, wherein my upper chesticular region starts to laugh and says REALLY? TRY AGAIN. This is a problem, because J. Crew doesn’t make clothing above size ITSY and I got the largest size they make, knowing as I did that what fits in the waist does not fit in the top, and the top must definitely be covered. Can’t upstage the bride in the middle of her wedding vows with a boobtacular revolt.So I set out to correct the problem. I ordered a second dress from ebay with the hopes of using the extra material as… something. A wrap? A jacket? A poncho? Because that’s what it’s going to take to move this dress away from the gaping maw of Slutville. A fucking poncho.
When I realized that the task at hand involved things like seam rippers and sewing machines, I thought maybe I could just rectify the situation with some undergarments. Have you ever seen those really ugly garments that look like modernized corsets? I bought one, but not for my waist. I thought that maybe, possibly, if I hooked and lycra-ed them into submission, it might give me a few more inches of zip-able dress. It does. But it makes me look like I’m smuggling really large and strangely poofy dinner plates. Not my most flattering look. So I bought a cardigan, hoping to cover up the inches of material that steadfastly refused to meet in the middle. Also not my best look. I look like I’m about to serve tea in 1956 and, oh, I’m sorry, let me get you a plate for that, I’VE GOT ONE RIGHT HERE IN MY BODICE.
I have from now until April 26th to come up with a viable solution. I’ve even enlisted the help of my mother, who will be lugging a sewing machine up three flights of stairs because the one I’ve got is broken, possibly due to the last time I tried to sew something and I ignored the telltale angry machine noises and let the needle lodge permanently in the plastic siding.
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Man, you really are like my favourite writerest ever. I would love to have the skillz with words that you do. My calender for April 27th now says 'Check for tales of Boobgate/Pay Rent'.
The whole engagement/proposal/wedding ordeal is much overrated. My last marriage (the one that worked) had an engagement of four days, and the wedding was a day trip to Vegas (with no bridesmaid in J. Crew dresses).
Erma Bombeck is bowing down (bowing up?) from her grave. And laughing so hard she has hiccups. (from Heidi's Auntie Teri)
Why is it that from the list of girls and ladies I have called "best friend" throughout the years, every single damn one of you is blessed with a more than ample supply of those lovely things and yet all you can do is bitch about it and try to cover them up?!? I am excited to have discovered your blogspot, though. And your loyalty and concern over upstaging your friend is admirable. I need to get a real block and quit messing around on myspace. Reading your blogs reminded me of our happy nerd-dom in days of yore. Send me your E-mail address on myspace, though, Rendi is trying to locate everyone for the reunion. This is Laurie, btw.
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