Weddings

When I'm no longer fat, I look forward to looking forward to weddings.

We have several weddings this year, one of which we play major parts. I hate going to/being in weddings when I'm fat. It's just one of those events that truly sucks when you're overweight. They're just not as much fun.

This whole past year, as events have gone by, I've always thought to myself, "Well, this will be my last birthday that I'm fat." or, "This will be the last Christmas that I'm fat." Remember, it took me a full year to get this surgery together.

But now I'm to the point where I can say, "Gee, there's no more major events left between now and my surgery. I'll have lost at least some weight at the very next thing I do!" It's such a nice change of thought. I love it.

Anyway, my family and I are parts of a wedding in October. The wedding is exactly 7 months after I start my pre-op diet. I wonder what I'll weigh. I hope I've lost more than 20 lbs. Please weight loss gods, let me lose more than 20 lbs in 7 months.

Now here's what's crazy about that wedding - I just got my dress today. Am I nuts, you ask? Perhaps. But it was super cheap and I made an educated guess.

You see, the bride in this wedding is all about a bargain. Her wedding certainly won't look like it came from Wal-Mart (it's at a downtown hotel), but she's DEFINITELY getting things at Dollar Tree prices. In fact, she got her own dress on craigslist for $50. It was a $600 David's Bridal dress, and she paid next to nothing. And it came with several veils to choose from AND a set of petticoats. All she needs to do is have it altered and cleaned.

But, because she's such a bargain hunter, she's been helping us bridesmaids find dresses on Ebay. A few weeks back, we found a size 16 David's Bridal dress for $50 on Ebay. It sells in the store for $170, so I figured it was worth a shot. I got it today, and it's really is beautiful. I tried it on, and I can get it on my body, but the zipper is about as stretched as it can get. So we'll see if it fits. It was just too good of a deal to pass up. I had to try it. Maybe I'll loose so much that it'll have to be altered down. Wouldn't that be cool?