ladysprite | But Not A Real Green Dress, That's Cruel

One of the things that being in a wedding party entailed was finding something wedding-appropriate to wear. I hadn't realized just how much of a challenge this would be.

For this wedding, the brides decided that, rather than pick out one single dress for all the dress-wearing attendants to wear (considering our range of sizes and shapes, that would have been a nightmare), they were just going to pick a color and have us all find something that we liked. And, wanting to go along with a fairy-tale/foresty theme, they asked us to wear something green.

Did you know there are "in" colors each season?

Did you know that green isn't "in" this season?

Neither did I. The perils of being fashion-unconscious. (I think I fall perilously close to fashion-comatose.) Anyway, after hunting through Macy's, Lord & Taylors, Nordstrom, and every other dress shop I could find, I had found one bad seafoam prom dress and a ton of nope.

So I went online. Where I found maybe half a dozen dresses, divided evenly between 'incredibly casual sundress' and 'way too sexy,' neither of which felt quite right for a semi-formal wedding, especially standing up next to the brides.

Green is hard, yo.

Thankfully, my friends are open-minded and willing to embrace non-traditionally-Western attire. And I live about a mile or so from an Indian Bridal shop.

I cannot say enough good things about Chhabra Bridal. The people there are incredibly helpful and friendly and cooperative; they understood that I was looking for something to wear for a Western wedding, and within five minutes of stepping in the door they had more beautiful green sarees and lehengas and salwar kameez laid out for me. (If you are ever looking for colorful clothing? This is the place to go. It was like shopping inside a rainbow.)

And oh my god, everything in there was beautiful. And they custom-tailor the clothes, and will walk you through wrapping and draping until you've got it down just right, and I wish I had an excuse to shop there every day. As it is, I need to manufacture reasons to dress like this more often....

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