"I am bursting at the seams"
This is what I said to my dear friend Lindsay yesterday at the fabric store after I realized what an amazing deal we were getting on the fabric we chose for the bridesmaids dresses for my wedding. (Pun intended in the comment by the way :))
God was with us at the fabric store yesterday. Yes, I know that's an odd sounding statement, but it is true. The first fabric we found, we thought was on sale, but when we got up to the counter the lady informed us that it wasn't. What seemed like a set back turned into a blessing however, when we found another fabric that we liked better, on sale for even cheaper!
The first fabric was $25.00 a metre, and the sale we thought applied to it was buy one metre, get two free. This would have made it roughly eight dollars a metre, and 75 dollars total for the fabric, which is really not a bad price as fabric goes. The second fabric was regular $9.99, and it did have the buy one metre get two free deal applied, so, we got each metre of fabric for $3.33. In total we got 9 metres of fabric, so that is about $30.00 In case you aren't familiar with the going rate of fabric, (I wasn't), this is an unbelievable deal. "You just can't get fabric that cheap!", Lindsay keep saying.
The next thing we had to buy was a lining for underneath the dress. Lindsay said the lining may end up being more expensive than the fabric because we got such a good deal on that. Sure enough, the lining we chose, (the cheapest there), was still $4.99 a metre. That's okay we thought, we got a really good deal on the fabric. When we got up to the counter and the girl started to unroll the lining, she realized that someone has wrapped a different color of lining on the roll, so what we saw and wanted wasn't what that was. She went out back to see if they had anymore of what we wanted, and we held our breath. She found a roll of in the back, but she couldn't find a price on it. When she did, it was only $2.99! It was so exciting!
The fun was not over. The lady started to unroll the material, and she wasn't sure if there would be enough. I said a little prayer, (literally), and when she measured it out there was exactly 9 metres. No kidding. It was amazing.
There were other little things too: We got the last two spools of the pink thread we needed, and the last four spools of the pink serger thread we needed as well. Also, I had only brought 100 dollars with me, not really thinking, and in the end, when we got everything for all four dresses, it came to just under 100 dollars! That's about 25 dollars a dress, which is insane!
I know this was a long post, and maybe boring for some people, but I just had to blog about this because I found it so amazing! I hope you all find it as interesting as I do.
Okay, I've rambled enough. Bye
God was with us at the fabric store yesterday. Yes, I know that's an odd sounding statement, but it is true. The first fabric we found, we thought was on sale, but when we got up to the counter the lady informed us that it wasn't. What seemed like a set back turned into a blessing however, when we found another fabric that we liked better, on sale for even cheaper!
The first fabric was $25.00 a metre, and the sale we thought applied to it was buy one metre, get two free. This would have made it roughly eight dollars a metre, and 75 dollars total for the fabric, which is really not a bad price as fabric goes. The second fabric was regular $9.99, and it did have the buy one metre get two free deal applied, so, we got each metre of fabric for $3.33. In total we got 9 metres of fabric, so that is about $30.00 In case you aren't familiar with the going rate of fabric, (I wasn't), this is an unbelievable deal. "You just can't get fabric that cheap!", Lindsay keep saying.
The next thing we had to buy was a lining for underneath the dress. Lindsay said the lining may end up being more expensive than the fabric because we got such a good deal on that. Sure enough, the lining we chose, (the cheapest there), was still $4.99 a metre. That's okay we thought, we got a really good deal on the fabric. When we got up to the counter and the girl started to unroll the lining, she realized that someone has wrapped a different color of lining on the roll, so what we saw and wanted wasn't what that was. She went out back to see if they had anymore of what we wanted, and we held our breath. She found a roll of in the back, but she couldn't find a price on it. When she did, it was only $2.99! It was so exciting!
The fun was not over. The lady started to unroll the material, and she wasn't sure if there would be enough. I said a little prayer, (literally), and when she measured it out there was exactly 9 metres. No kidding. It was amazing.
There were other little things too: We got the last two spools of the pink thread we needed, and the last four spools of the pink serger thread we needed as well. Also, I had only brought 100 dollars with me, not really thinking, and in the end, when we got everything for all four dresses, it came to just under 100 dollars! That's about 25 dollars a dress, which is insane!
I know this was a long post, and maybe boring for some people, but I just had to blog about this because I found it so amazing! I hope you all find it as interesting as I do.
Okay, I've rambled enough. Bye
posted by Sarah Beth at 6:36 PM
2 Comments:
Wow Sarah! That's amazing! I'm not much of a sewer, but even I can smell that this smells of a deal!! Congrats :)
Who is making your dresses for you?
Hey Sarah-
I understand the excitment about finding deals for your wedding. Last summer, my maid of honor and I found a wonderful story where everything was half price and not because they were going out of business that is just how they did things. Anyways, I was super excited and I could not wait to take Tabor there. We ended up getting our unity candle, cake serving set and some other things there pretty cheap compared to other places I had seen. So I can totally relate with you on this whole thing. I hope that you are having a great March break and hope that the wedding plans kept getting better for you as the time draws closer!
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