As the title suggests (!), just three weeks to go until my wedding. Feels like preparations have really slowed down over the past couple of weeks after the flurry of activity in January, although have just paid off the balance of the venue today (take deep breaths and think of the lovely credit card points) and went for first dress fitting yesterday.
Speaking of dress fitting: when I bought my dress I told the shop owner I was planning to try and lose two stone and she said that would be fine, the dress could be taken in without any problems. Anyway, after working so hard to achieve that weight loss she now says that even with alterations my dress is going to probably still be too big (because of the boning they can't take more then 1.5in from each side) and I'm really quite disappointed about it. Even from a distance you can tell from the bust and ruching at the waist that it's not quite right, plus one of the things I liked about this dress was the way it pulled everything in and now it just doesn't do that. (I know I've got less to pull in now than 6 months ago but I could still use all the help I can get!) It wasn't exactly a cheap dress either and I'm starting to wish that I'd left it a bit longer to buy something (there were a lot of sale dresses in other shops that I was less than 3in away from getting into!) but it's too late now. To be honest I think she just said it would be fine at the time because she didn't think I'd manage it! So, pretty fed up about that. UPDATE: went for my follow-up fitting today and they've managed to take it in an extra half inch from where it was pinned at the previous fitting, and it's looking much, much better. They've also added an extra pleat at the front so that the extra fabric isn't so obvious, which I thought was a clever way of getting around it. It's still not quite as perfect as it was when I first bought it, but I do feel like I'll look lovely in it on the day so that's a huge weight off my mind with nine days to go!
On a completely random other note, it was H2B's birthday last week and one of his presents was a USB microscope. I made the mistake earlier of looking at my engagement ring under it and now I need to add "get ring polished" to my wedding to-do list!
