The Worst Bridesmaid Dress Ever!

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Being a bridesmaid comes with many responsibilities, just one of them being the fact that you are expected to wear the (often) horrible bridesmaid dress that the bride has selected. While many dresses are horrible, none of them even touch on how ridiculously awful my bridesmaid dress was. I can easily say without question that this dress was the worst bridesmaid dress ever!

To start off, the color was atrocious! Technically, it was flax colored, but who cares about technicalities? It was a cross between the color of margarine, birdseed and puke, and it was nasty! I mean, really, who chooses a dress that is flax colored? Nobody even knows what that looks like until boom! You're hit with an ugly, ugly dress that no one wants to wear. And, guess what? You're stuck with it! Eww!

Anyway, that wasn't the worst part of the dress. The really bad thing was that somehow between the stages of measurement and actually ordering the dress, someone, somewhere screwed up the sizes. So, here I am stuck with a dress that is at least a size too small, and really, super ugly, so, of course, the logical thing to do is go to have it altered. Of course, off we go to the tailor. So, they alter it and I'm thinking that all is wonderful and right in the world. Until wedding day, that is. When I go to put it on again, it's hard to zip up, and way too tight in the chest. You may be asking yourself why I didn't try it on again before the wedding. Well, that would be because it wasn't ready until early in the morning the day we had to leave to go out of state for the wedding. No time to try on the dress, and besides, they had done all they could to alter it, so even if it didn't fit, nothing could be done about it. So, it's wedding day and I'm stuck squishing into an ugly dress that doesn't fit. Well, I finally get it on and the wedding goes as planned, but the moral of the story is, if you're ever a bridesmaid, try and coerce the bride into letting you select your own dress. And, if you can't, grin and bear it!