I was all about Mrs. Gray Wolf’s dress post! I thought it was so cool that she ordered it on faith and it was so beautiful.
~ Mrs. Genie
Now that you’ve seen what dress I chose (and I’ve gotten so many lovely comments about it!), I wanted to take a brief pause in the recaps to sort of finish up the wedding dress narrative. If you recall, I was close to renting a gown from Rent the Runway, but ultimately decided not to and chose a dress from a designer I found on Etsy.

There were a few reasons:

First, and most simply—I started liking the Etsy one a bit more. It might have been that I had been staring at the Reem Acra for a lot longer, but slowly the drop sleeves seemed more romantic than the cap sleeves, the silk more bridal than the tulle. Besides concerns about the state of the dress, as more girls rented the dress, I read more reviews, and quite a few people mentioned that the color was closer to a blush pink than a nude. I was a fan of a nude wedding gown, but very much anti-pink.
The sleeves. I asked the Etsy seller how mobile the sleeves were (like many of the commenters, I was concerned about ripping them or not being able to dance as rambunctiously as I wanted); she told me that they were somewhat restricting, but that many brides simply tuck them in after the ceremony as the material is light enough not to bulge through the bustier. I had been considering ways to make a small change from ceremony to reception, and thought going from sleev...