The Schaffer Experience

I have. a. wedding dress. And. It’s perfect.

I had no idea this was going to happen in one day. Let alone 3 days of becoming a fiancé! But I wouldn’t have it any other way! I won’t lie, I had a lot of expectations and thought I knew exactly what I wanted. Call me ridiculous but I’ve been thinking about being a bride since I filmed my first wedding at 18. Everything I had hoped for this experience and Schaffer’s delivered.

I had walked by Schaffer’s almost everyday when I lived in old town. I loved the proud look of it, and dreaming about trying on the dresses inside.

Of course part of me wanted this part of wedding planning to be this long drawn out thing of trying on all the dresses in all the stores in all the cities. But instead, it was simple, and perfect and meant to be. It was intimate with just me and mom looking for what I liked and didn’t like. I kept thinking in my head, “just make sure you really don’t want that type of dress.” To be fair, I was sure I had found the dress prior to walking into that store. Brooke, our consultant was the perfect addition to our day. We picked an array of styles, all satin. Some with bows some with sleeves off the shoulders. I know I wanted chic, timeless, classic and satin. I put the first dress on to confirm my thoughts. And my world flipped upside down in the best way possible. All those Sunday’s spent watching “Say yes to the dress” did not emotionally prepare myself for this moment. That moment they talk about finding “the dress” is real and it’s extremely hard to explain until it happens to you but of course I’m going to try.

Mind you this is the first dress I tried on, so maybe there was some magical aura of that but when I saw the girl…no the woman looking back at me in that dress, in the mirror I felt whole. Everything I had worked for, everything I was I felt that dress beaming with pride of representing …me.

I quickly tried on the 8 other dresses. Only one other dress coming CLOSE to that feeling again. But when we compared the pictures you could see the light in my face when I had that first dress on. I facetimed David and Krysteeana instantly. Krysteeana said it perfectly, “If I could put Megan Lange, Ariana Grande and Audrey Hepburn in a dress that would be it.”

Come to find out that the first dress my mom tried on was the one she ended up buying when she was a bride. So maybe it’s a family thang. ;)

So we bought it. And now I have a wedding dress. We celebrated with champagne of course.

I just wanted to give a special shout out to my mom and Brooke for making this day so magical. I hope every bride gets to have this type of experience and I hope you check out Schaffer’s in Scottsdale for the best dress shopping experience!

Don’t dress this isn’t the dress ;)