I can't pick a candy bar, but a dress? No problem

I knew from a very young age (ok...22 is young in my eyes) that I wanted to wear my mom's wedding dress....or at the very least something that LOOKED like my mom's wedding dress.

See, my mom's wedding dress looked classic. It is covered in lace and so elegant. It doesn't hurt that it's a designer gown picked out an exclusive boutique in Los Angeles at the hands of my mother and grandmother collectively. I feel it to be timeless. At the age I began thinking about it, I never thought it would happen...my mom was SO thin when she married my father! While I had some doubts, the thought never once left my mind.

Fast forward a couple years, and I'm still not engaged...but I know it's coming...I mention my plan to my mom. Well, next time I visited, there she was, the dress...sitting in the corner of what used to be my room at home. I let it sit there. I didn't look at it, I didn't take it out of the box. I was terrified! Finally on my last day home visiting I was cornered...I knew it was going to happen but I felt I was at the end. The light at the end of the tunnel was there and I was going to make it out without trying on the dress. But alas, she caught me. My mom and sister (who was home for summer break from school) forced me into the dress just so they could see.

Let me back up for a moment. After I left home for school, I lost a lot of weight. In fact, since high school I'm down a little more than 40 pounds. The dress fitting, while still a concern was no longer my biggest hurdle. The engagement was my biggest hurdle...more on that later.

So they cornered me. It was time...I knew I had to get in it and show them. So I did. I hadn't showered, my hair was...well, a complete disaster, but I tried it on. It fit like a glove. While I felt the dress looked absolutely gorgeous...looking at myself in the mirror with this gown on made me want to throw up. I didn't know if it was a case like Carrie Bradshaw in the episode of Sex and the City where she can't stomach the thought of marrying Aiden, or if I just wasn't there mentally yet.

So, did I end up choosing my mom's dress?

Did you try on dresses before you were ready and have an adverse response?