Bridal Session Break Down
This was written on April 27th, 2009, the day I got my bridal portraits done:
"I have to chronicle my day because it was too ridiculous to be real at one point. I've been excited about my Bridal Portraits for a while now, obviously. Taken off a day of work, scheduled hair AND make-up professionally, bought new shoes to wear, and had the perfect place picked out to take the pics: The Dallas Arboretum.
However, if anyone took a look outside at the weather today, you may have seen a torrential down-pour.
Yeah... that did not lend itself well to the Arboretum idea.
However, last night when I went to bed, despite the promise from forecasters that there would be nothing but rain rain rain all day Monday the 27th, I had the outlook that "Hey, it was supposed to storm today and it didn't. Maybe tomorrow will be the same and I'll be lucky!" At 5:45 AM this morning I woke up to a thunderstorm. The weather's nice way of saying... "Yeah, not a chance. Enjoy."
I half expected this, so even though I was upset, I had a few back-up ideas. That didn't make the drive to Arlington that morning to have my hair done at 10 AM any less wet and frightening. All breakfast long, sitting at LaMadeline's with my two maids of honor, I called places in Dallas that were indoor and would be better for rainy-day photos with no luck. While I got my hair done, Melissa and Ashlie called everyone and thing they could think of trying to find another replacement for the Arboretum.
They then receive a call from my mother at the house. The garage door was stuck shut and she was trapped there. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal if the large fear of the day wasn't how to get me with my hair and make-up and BIG, BEAUTIFUL, WHITE, UNSTAINED DRESS in the car without the rain and wind screwing with it. Getting in inside the garage was how I wanted to do it. Having to take another car in the drive-way...having me run from the front door of my house to the car door in the drive way... that situation... did not seem the best way to go. Luckily dad ended up fixing the problem before we ever got home.
About 2 hours into my hair-do I realize that this girl was not doing what I wanted with my hair. SOLUTION: we had to start over completely... So from this point on, we were running an hour behind schedule. After my awesome make-up was done, we raced home to put my dress on. The last hour of my hair/make-up appointment, Melissa and Ashlie officially nailed down the Dallas Aquarium as the picture place. It took us a bit longer to get the dress on me due to bad lighting, but then we got into the car, me sitting on a sheet to make sure nothing got on my pretty tulle, lace, satin, and fluffy-ness. I felt really restricted because it is a corset, but it looked awesome.
We were off. I was floating in the front seat in a sea of white fabric. It was raining, but I was on the inside and I was ready for my pictures. I was going to a place that had a roof. We were finally going to be fine.
Then, the worst thing of the day happened.
Mom got a flat tire.
It was at this point that I started to freak out.
Here I was, sitting in my WEDDING DRESS, on the SIDE OF THE ROAD, in the RAIN, running an HOUR late for my photo-shoot with a VERY expensive photographer and I could hardly breathe. So I started to hyperventilate because I couldn't breathe and cry in my dress, while fighting tears to keep my $60 make-up job from smearing. Ashlie had to grab my arm and talk me back from the brink of a break-down, mom called Dad to come help us, and Melissa took off walking down the road (in the rain) to go pick her car up from our house so we could stay as close to schedule as possible. Thankfully, we were only a mile away from the house when this happened.
Dad came to the rescue, but sadly, the first time my father actually saw me in my wedding dress was through a car window when I was freaking out. The 2nd time, was with my skirt hiked up in a wad nearly around my head so that it wouldn't touch the grass of the yard I had to run through to get from mom's car into Melissa's car. Then I had to fight a pine tree to keep from ruining my hair on the way in the car door.
Finally, we all got into Mel's vehicle and were off. We made it to the Aquarium an hour after we were supposed to (we were supposed to be there at 3 and we got there just after 4), and the place was supposed to close at 5! We had half the time to get these pictures. Thankfully, Brandy and Brandon were AMAZING and we got some AWESOME shots!! The day didn't go any where near how it was originally planned, but what really mattered was the pictures, and I know those will be awesome. [They were]
In the end, we drove home and we were all exhausted. SUCH a long day, and I could still barely breathe in my dress, and car-sickness on the way home didn't help. I started to sweat and just rock back and forth.
As I said bye to my friends when we got home and got the dress off of me, I hugged them and told them I loved them so much. And that's when the damn sun came out and the "nothing but rain rain rain" sky did it's own version of flipping us off. Completely CLEAR SKY as soon as the whole ordeal was over!"
"I have to chronicle my day because it was too ridiculous to be real at one point. I've been excited about my Bridal Portraits for a while now, obviously. Taken off a day of work, scheduled hair AND make-up professionally, bought new shoes to wear, and had the perfect place picked out to take the pics: The Dallas Arboretum.
However, if anyone took a look outside at the weather today, you may have seen a torrential down-pour.
Yeah... that did not lend itself well to the Arboretum idea.
However, last night when I went to bed, despite the promise from forecasters that there would be nothing but rain rain rain all day Monday the 27th, I had the outlook that "Hey, it was supposed to storm today and it didn't. Maybe tomorrow will be the same and I'll be lucky!" At 5:45 AM this morning I woke up to a thunderstorm. The weather's nice way of saying... "Yeah, not a chance. Enjoy."
I half expected this, so even though I was upset, I had a few back-up ideas. That didn't make the drive to Arlington that morning to have my hair done at 10 AM any less wet and frightening. All breakfast long, sitting at LaMadeline's with my two maids of honor, I called places in Dallas that were indoor and would be better for rainy-day photos with no luck. While I got my hair done, Melissa and Ashlie called everyone and thing they could think of trying to find another replacement for the Arboretum.
They then receive a call from my mother at the house. The garage door was stuck shut and she was trapped there. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal if the large fear of the day wasn't how to get me with my hair and make-up and BIG, BEAUTIFUL, WHITE, UNSTAINED DRESS in the car without the rain and wind screwing with it. Getting in inside the garage was how I wanted to do it. Having to take another car in the drive-way...having me run from the front door of my house to the car door in the drive way... that situation... did not seem the best way to go. Luckily dad ended up fixing the problem before we ever got home.
About 2 hours into my hair-do I realize that this girl was not doing what I wanted with my hair. SOLUTION: we had to start over completely... So from this point on, we were running an hour behind schedule. After my awesome make-up was done, we raced home to put my dress on. The last hour of my hair/make-up appointment, Melissa and Ashlie officially nailed down the Dallas Aquarium as the picture place. It took us a bit longer to get the dress on me due to bad lighting, but then we got into the car, me sitting on a sheet to make sure nothing got on my pretty tulle, lace, satin, and fluffy-ness. I felt really restricted because it is a corset, but it looked awesome.
We were off. I was floating in the front seat in a sea of white fabric. It was raining, but I was on the inside and I was ready for my pictures. I was going to a place that had a roof. We were finally going to be fine.
Then, the worst thing of the day happened.
Mom got a flat tire.
It was at this point that I started to freak out.
Here I was, sitting in my WEDDING DRESS, on the SIDE OF THE ROAD, in the RAIN, running an HOUR late for my photo-shoot with a VERY expensive photographer and I could hardly breathe. So I started to hyperventilate because I couldn't breathe and cry in my dress, while fighting tears to keep my $60 make-up job from smearing. Ashlie had to grab my arm and talk me back from the brink of a break-down, mom called Dad to come help us, and Melissa took off walking down the road (in the rain) to go pick her car up from our house so we could stay as close to schedule as possible. Thankfully, we were only a mile away from the house when this happened.
Dad came to the rescue, but sadly, the first time my father actually saw me in my wedding dress was through a car window when I was freaking out. The 2nd time, was with my skirt hiked up in a wad nearly around my head so that it wouldn't touch the grass of the yard I had to run through to get from mom's car into Melissa's car. Then I had to fight a pine tree to keep from ruining my hair on the way in the car door.
Finally, we all got into Mel's vehicle and were off. We made it to the Aquarium an hour after we were supposed to (we were supposed to be there at 3 and we got there just after 4), and the place was supposed to close at 5! We had half the time to get these pictures. Thankfully, Brandy and Brandon were AMAZING and we got some AWESOME shots!! The day didn't go any where near how it was originally planned, but what really mattered was the pictures, and I know those will be awesome. [They were]
In the end, we drove home and we were all exhausted. SUCH a long day, and I could still barely breathe in my dress, and car-sickness on the way home didn't help. I started to sweat and just rock back and forth.
As I said bye to my friends when we got home and got the dress off of me, I hugged them and told them I loved them so much. And that's when the damn sun came out and the "nothing but rain rain rain" sky did it's own version of flipping us off. Completely CLEAR SKY as soon as the whole ordeal was over!"