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I think I am beginning to act like a normal bride-to-be.

I stamped my feet and waved my arms about in frustration in the dressmaker the other day. That’s what I am traditionally supposed to do… right?

I hope my in-laws appreciated my bride-like qualities there, they aren’t going to see so many.

After handing over the printout of my example dress I found during my five minutes of wedding dress search online I tried on a sample they had in-store (for some reason that wasn’t explained to me at the time).

They would have been better off not giving me the big white dress to try on as I felt like a complete dick and wished not to have to wear one again.

After I had changed back into my jeans and was quietly recovering with my steaming green tea, I spotted a pretty knee length green dress hanging to the side of the room. I picked it up and announced to Patrick that I had changed my mind and wanted that dress instead, at which he stood and looked at me for a minute looking a little bit amused and a little bit confused.

Once he decided that he had actually understood what I had said he translated to the rest of the room.

Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

“Don’t be silly! Hahaha. It’s a wedding dress! It must be big and white!”

“… Why?”

“Hahaha! Because it’s a wedding dress!”

“….”

“It’s tradition! Everybody wears a big white dress for their wedding! Hahaha”

So at that point I think I yelled a bit about “Who’s tradition?” and “..married for four years… a bit late for a white dress…” and generally confused myself trying to confirm the logic of a westerner following a Chinese tradition which is really a western tradition that westerners don’t really follow any more…

I lost the argument of course, but at least kept all in the store amused with my odd foreign antics for a few minutes.

In case you’re curious how odd I really look in a wedding dress, one of our original wedding photos (taken without the actual wedding of course.)

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