Say Yes to the Dress

I've heard of that TV program that showcases wedding dresses.  And I've heard of the prices of some of the dresses.  Twenty thousand dollars for a wedding dress????  I have trouble paying for ANYTHING with that many zero's on the price tag.  Especially a one time shot at wearing a dress!  Fortunately Ally was much more sensible than that.  Although I've never spent as much as I did on one article of clothing.  When I got the call from Binnie when they were trying on the dresses (the call where everyone was crying) I didn't know what to expect.  But I could tell from the tone of the call that they found "the one".  And it was more or less what I expected. (It was priced toward the higher end of my limit...whatever that limit was...I still don't know! But it wasn't NEAR...even close... to $20K!!))  But they found "the one".  So I couldn't say no.  And they put the deposit on the dress.  A non-refundable deposit.....which is important to the rest of this post.  Everyone was happy.....I didn't expect them to find "the one" so quickly but they did.  About a week later Binnie and Ally found the perfect shoes for the dress.  Very reasonably priced, I might add.  And still everyone was happy.......until.....I recieved an e-mail from Ally about the dress.  She didn't want to talk to me in person about it......which may have been a good thing.  She was having second thoughts....not about getting married....but about the dress.  The same dress with the non-refundable deposit.  Yep....non-refundable.  I remained calm because that was all I could do.  The other dress she was considering was half the price.....but Binnie and I didn't even want to think about giving someone else all that deposit money for nothing.  I could tell Ally was having a hard time with it as well.  She was feeling terrible about having a change of mind about the dress.  I figured the best thing was to just let it settle in to both of our minds.  Give it a few days.  Ally went to try "the other dress" on again.  I'm not sure of her feelings about it.  But a couple of days later... sure enough....like a snap of the fingers....Ally told me, calm as can be, that she had decided to stick with the original.  Crisis averted....