Wedding dress shopping, artisan markets and the Jazz Festival

Evening Everyone.
A really quick post tonight as I am shattered! I have been with my eldest daughter to look at wedding dresses today for her forthcoming wedding next August.
Myself, eldest daughter, my other two daughters plus my daughter's best friend went to two bridal shops (by appointment only - can you believe that!) to try on some dresses.
I have to admit I'm not a fan of all that fussing and fawning and much prefer to have a rummage on the rails, pick a few out that I like and try them on. Oh no! That is definitely not allowed. Nor is taking photographs of any we liked so we could think about them at home. Such a palaver! My daughter's friend had the skills of a ninja and actually managed to take a few sneaky pics.
So we had one appointment in the morning and one mid afternoon. In between, we went for brunch in town.

Pancakes, scrambled egg and maple syrup

 It was really lovely as the Jazz and Blues Festival was on and also an artisan market selling foods and crafts. The only downside was that we really struggled to get a parking space. Once we had one, after driving round and round for what seemed like an eternity, we just put a day ticket on and decided to walk everywhere without moving the car. This didn't exactly go to plan as we had a longer break than we envisaged, so we popped home for an hour as we really didn't want to keep walking round or having more coffees. When we went back the parking situation had not improved so two eldest daughters went to the appointment whilst the youngest and myself hung around on the car park till we found a space. I must say that my daughter's driving skills at squeezing into the tiniest space were really impressive!
In the first shop my daughter tried on endless dresses until she found one she quite liked. She took all the details and made a further appointment for next week so she could think about it. At the second shop she tried on another set of dresses and once again found another that she quite liked, which, incidentally, was totally different from the first. Again, she wanted to think about it so we got the details and will go back if she decides that is "the one".
I can't blame her - it's important to get the dream dress on your wedding day and also it is an awful lot of money if you are unsure. You could buy a car for the price of some of those dresses, it's scary!

So guess what I will be doing for most of next week? Answers on a postcard. 😏
congletonjazzandbluesfestival for anyone that is interested.
Jules x

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