Popping the guest bloggy cherry….

Why hello there! I’m Lexi, and I write over at Tea and Crumpets, but thought I’d venture into the world of guest blogging for the very first time! Yes folks, this is my first ever guest blog! Want to know a secret? I’m also new to blogging anyway- my own blog is less then a month old! Luckily, Heidi is pretty fabulous and didn’t seem to mind my lack of blogginess, so on we go!

So Heidi is away at a wedding shower this weekend, I believe. I guess that Memorial Day weekend officially kicks off both summer and wedding season, eh? I have five, yes five weddings this summer; that I know of. Of course, there could always be one lurking beneath the surface that I am unaware of right now. My first wedding is next weekend, coinciding with the premiere of the Sex and the City Movie. Noooooo!!!!! So Friday night, rather then basking in the glory that is Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, I will be on a flight to Des Moines, IA. Yes, that’s Iowa. Joy. I’m sure the wedding will be lovely…I just hope the cake is good!

Right, so Iowa next weekend, then I have a break from weddings in June. Then we have one in July in NH and August in NH (Labor Day weekend! gahhh!). Then there is Boston in September and Florida in October. Ugh. While I say “ugh” in a light-hearted way, I can be pleased that I’m not in any of these weddings! I think my bridesmaid days are over! Well, my sister will be married someday, but no time soon. This is better then three years ago, where I was a bridesmaid in three weddings (NH, NH and NJ).

This leads to my question and our topic of discussion- what have you done with your discarded bridesmaid dresses? Like I said, I have three. Ironically, they are all the same color, which meant that I could wear the same pair of $150 sandals three times! This was good. Each dress is a light green, a sage-ish color. The first was a tea-length with spaghetti straps, and there is a slight chance I could wear it again, to a summer wedding. The second one was full-length and strapless, and if I had it hemmed to a tea-length, I could wear it again. The last one was my least favorite and I could never wear it again. It was full-length, halter-style and the top was heavily beaded. It was pretty, but not my style. Ironically, I am no longer friends with that bride, but that is an entirely different blog post.

Each of these dresses hangs in my closet, wrapped in plastic, but gathering dust. What should I do with them? One of my BFF’s has sold several dresses on ebay. That could be a possibility. Or, I could also donate them to the Salvation Army or one of those organizations that donates prom dresses to high schoolers. I think that is what I am leaning towards.

What do you think? Where should my dresses go to die? What has happened to your former bridesmaid dresses? Most importantly, what sort of dress will you choose for your bridesmaids? Will it be something they can wear again? Or will it hang in their closet, silently mocking them from the back of the shelves?