So about a month ago my soon to be sister in law was picking up her wedding dress at Trudy's in Campbell, while we were waiting for her dress she was approached by the owner of the salon. One of the dress designers, Enzoani, was having a trunk show for their new plus sized line and she wanted to know if Kelsey was interested. She was flattered, surprised, and accepted. I was standing next to her and laughingly said, "Man that's what I get for buying one of your sample dresses at a Bridal show" Trudy laughed and said they'd love to have me too. YAY for mooching opportunities!! Flash ahead to yesterday, we went down to the salon and were looking at the dresses, they were size 22 and 24. I'm a curvy girl, but not 24. But man add some clips and that dress looked AMAZING. Kelsey got one dress that was a 14 and one that was a 22. (Turns out there were size 16, 18, and 20s in the show as well, but they were assigned to girls the night before. Grf).
So today we went down nice and early. Got our hair and make up done. (I didn't particularly like how my hair looked up close, but in the pics it looks fantastic). One of the makeup artists has been a plus sized model for 7 years so she took us through a run through on the catwalk so that we wouldn't be afraid of falling on our face. Then its game time. Everyone in that back room was NERVOUS. My first dress was so much too big that I was popping safety pins right and left, they had to bring in the massive industrial safety pins. Kelsey was behind me in line and all I kept hearing her say was "oh shit oh shit oh shit". Deep breath time to go. First half of the catwalk I was just focusing on not falling, then I realized, "Woops! Slow down" took a deep breath and things went great from there. Alex (and Jimmy, Kristin, and Mothra) were at the end of the catwalk so I just had them to focus on. Smile at the photographer, turn around without hitting someone in the face with my train(and then popped a safety pin which scared the crap out of me, but thankfully my dress didn't fall) and keep on going. Then it was back into the first room and out of the dress as fast as possible. In hind sight having my back to an open door (that some ppl could see into) in a thong... maybe not my best look. oh well. Back out for dress #2. This one wouldn't quite stay up high enough (they didn't have enough time to pin it properly) so I was walking on it the entire way down, it also was heavy satin, had a train and a half and was HEAVY!. Afterwards we took a few individual and group shots and then off to take my$150 credit for my time and bought a brides maids dress for Kelsey's wedding. All in all it was a great, fun, day.
(see the clips)
(I rock the $3000 dress)
(really surprised me how great the makeup looked in pictures, goes to show you need to do drastically different makeup from your day to day when youre being photographed)
(kristin liked my hair)
(That was a LOT of fabric to get in that small of an area)
