Flower Girl Dresses: My ma
Grade: A+++
My mom by far was the most important person of the day. She came through countless times and kept everything together, while suffering from a pretty bad sinus infection.

Not only did she help get a great deal on my dream dress, but she did all of my alternations which easily saved me at least $400. She also made the Flower Girl dresses and “all of the dress at table number 1” as I so eloquently stated in my speech to my mom that night… which included:
- My Aunt Valda’s dress
- My Aunt Julie’s dress
- My cousin Huldah’s dress
- My sister Sandra’s dress
- Her dress and caplet
Oh and lets not forget my beautiful brocade jacket with the fuchsia lining! I received sooo many compliments on it.

So she was responsible for 9 pieces for just one day! Plus my alterations on my gown and rehearsal dinner dress… which brings the total to 11!

Ma, you know I love you lots, even though I don’t say it enough. I know we argue about stupid things, but what can I say, we’re both Virgos, we need to have everything perfect!
Bridesmaids Dresses: La Bella Sposa
Grade: B -
The place is OK… I didn’t like the fact that we had to remove our shoes before we went into the place. It didn’t really make a difference, because the floors were still dutty!
My bridesmaid Nicole highly recommended this place. And the fact that we went with this shop was purely coincidental. Nicole got married in 2007 and was very late in ordering hers and her bridal party dresses, and La Bella Sposa came through.
But when it was Natalie’s turn, things did not go over too well. I was told that 2 months is a fair TAT for maids’ dresses, but 4 – 5 months was the max. We weren’t that late in ordering, around mid September, nonetheless, our dresses were promised in late December. Then in the first week of January. Still nothing came in. Then Winnie, out sales associate confided in Nicole by saying “she dropped the ball” and weren’t due until late January.
In the end the dress came just in time, and the girls looked lovely!

Rehearsal Dinner Dress: Sposa Italia
GRADE: F
Four words… DO NOT GO THERE! You heard my stories and complaints… Nothing but problems with this 2-bit place. The people that work there are very incompetent. The one man (the owners husband) has no respect for women… very nonchalant and condescending. A right JACKASS! The owner, meh, and staff whatless. There was this one old school broad who never let me speak… not once, and when I told how I felt about things, she said i was "putting words in her mouth" All this in from of the owner. She knows the caliber of imbeciles she employs but does nothing to change things.
I said it before and I’ll say it again and again and again… if you need a Disney Birdal dress, go elsewhere. I lucked out and had no choice but to order from them because Sposa Italia was the only GTA store carrying Kirstie Kelly’s entire collection… at the time, I wanted to buy my wedding dress there.
One tid bit I forgot to mention, was that I was promised free alterations because of all of the problems I encountered. That didn’t happen… they turned it around on me and balked on their promise.
Pic from Christmas Cheer at the RCMI back in December.
The dress wasn’t altered at the time… I had to keep on pulling it up.
My mom altered it just in time for the rehearsal dinner.