God is good.
So good.
So. Very. Good.
Here's why. At least...one of the many reasons God is good :)
So, as you know, i'm getting married and weddings cost A LOT! Like holy crap amounts. And as a poor college student working two jobs, it's not like I have tons of money to spend. Well, when it came to searching for a wedding dress I decided the best place to start was David's Bridal in the "Below $600" section. I wasn't sure if i'd find "thee dress" since there aren't an abundant amount of options, but boy was I wrong.
On page 20 out of 23, my dream dress came up. (Alas, I will not explain what it looks like a great deal since I don't want anyone to know what it looks like other than a select few people until my wedding day). But to put it simply, it was gorgeous. Lace. Simple. And a good price for something so beautiful and elegant.
Here's the catch, I could only buy it online which means there is no trying on and deciding if I liked the feel and look on me. BUT GOSH WAS IT BEAUTIFUL. I knew I wanted it. At $599.99 I started saving. Every time I cashed a pay check, I'd put the change and a few dollars worth into an old pretzel container. Soon enough, I had just over $300. At this point, my appointment at David's bridal was just a month away and I knew I couldn't put too much more money away for it. Last resort, (which should have been my first resort) loads amount of prayer.
God blessed me a week ago as the dress went from $599.99 to $389.99. So much closer to what I had in my bin!!!!!!!!! I continued praying about it, just asking for any extra help in payment. Come two days ago, the dress went down ANOTHER $100!!! I could pay for my dress with the money I had in my pretzel bin. God is so good. Yet, I was still uncertain of whether or not I should purchase it since I didn't know my size and couldn't try it on until I had bought it. Sighing just a bit, I went into David's bridal this morning knowing that as soon as I found my size out, i'd buy that dress online.
I tried on two dresses and I absolutely LOVED this first one. It was lace with a champagne color underneath and was simply stunning. The next, I liked but it doesn't fit my theme for the wedding. As I stood there trying to decided what to do, Rochelle asked the lady helping me (Sharon) if she could find a dress in the store that had a halter neckline, since the dress online had a halter neckline and it would help if I had an idea of how it fit. She said she'd be right back and went off.
When she same back she had a lace dress with a halter top. Gosh, it looked like the one online! Then she started taking it out of the bag, it was ivory...just like the one online. The halter came into view, ruffled...just like the one online! All this time Morgan, Rochelle and I are saying "that looks like the one online!" So Rochelle asks "what is the code number on that dress?" The lady reads off "T9512"...
IT WAS THE DRESS I SAW ONLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dress I wanted but was afraid to purchase online for the reasons I mentioned above was RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME! God is SO good.
We all gasped, teared up, and I went in the changing room to try it on. It fit perfectly. Just a small adjustment to the length of the halter top and I was golden. Everything else...the length, feel, style, color...all were right. As I walked out to show my roommates I did some sort of jig and cried out "THIS IS THE ONE!!!"
Needless to say...the next minutes to pass were ones of great joy, tears, gasps, praises and me almost fainting. And i'm being serious...I could have fainted. I thought I was going to. Not because the dress was too tight...but because God has provided for me the very dress I wanted from the start.
It gets better.
As we are freaking out and i'm telling Sharon what a miracle this is, another lady from the store comes over and we related the story to her of how this dress was suppose to be "only online" yet it was here. She was blown away to. You could just tell she knew it was meant to be...it was just that crazy of a circumstance. The one lady says to me then "I just put out that dress this morning. It's the only one in its size we have here. We just get random dresses from time to time that are leftover from before."
Wait...what? You JUST put this out this morning? This dress JUST happens to be in MY SIZE? It's the ONLY one here of its style? Shoot dang.
God provides.
The dress itself was just under $400, a bit more than online, which I'm totally ok with, because I knew this had be set up by God. He was looking out for me and granting a desire of my heart.
To say I am thankful seems an understatement. But one thing is for sure...I learned today just how awesome of a provider my God is...and I will never stop singing His praise.
