Shopping for a Wedding Dress in NYC

I have been going to NYC, once, twice, sometimes three times a year since my daughter, Alexis, moved there in 1999. The first week in January was my first trip to The Big Apple this year.  I fell in love with NYC when I was 16. My high school English teacher, Miss Sandquist, took a group of us by train to New York City for a week.  She took us to four Broadway play including Man of the Mancha and Cabaret.  We climbed the old wooden steps all the way to the top of the Statue of Liberty and had front row seats at the Copacabana night club where we saw the Supremes.  Miss Sandquist had the bartender make us Shirley Temple cocktails.  I remember eating my first bagel with cream cheese and walking around the city for hours in a state of complete awe.  I was, after all, a northeast Minneapolis girl who thought a trip to downtown Minneapolis to see a movie and eat spaghetti at Cafe Di'Napoli was the height of excitement.

On this trip to New York Alexis and I went to the garment district to what to me seemed like the largest bridal shop on the planet. Alexis had been to the shop the week between Xmas and New Years with her undergraduate college friend, Eliza, to try on dresses. She spent a couple hours trying on dresses fighting the hoards of brides and brideszillas in the shop that day.

On our trip to this huge shop the brides and bridezillas were in short supply and we had bridal dress expert, Cheryl, all to ourselves for nearly two hours.  Alexis took several dresses off the racks to try on and Cheryl picked out four dresses she thought would be perfect for her.  Alexis never put on any of the dresses she had taken off the racks. The very first dress she tried from Cheryl's choices turned out to be her #1 choice. The woman knew her stuff!!  It was a day I will never forget.

*I have been suffering with ear and sinus infections this month, thus I did not do any blogging.  My beloved editor has been in England the last two weeks as well.  He returns Tuesday and will undoubtedly tell me this blog is full of errors.  All well, what's life without a few errors!