I'm like that, too! If I get a good deal, it's a bragging right. You know who pays retail? Suckers, that's who.

Yea, it was yellow and grey, tea length, and less than a hundred bucks. I live it and still wear it all the time. My mom hates it and has a hissy fit every single time I wear it. I am immature as fuck so I wear it around her every chance I get.

My dress was a sample. I told everyone when they complimented me on it because I am my Nannie and I'm genetically required to tell people when I got a deal. "THANKS, I GOT IT FOR A THIRD OF THE REGULAR PRICE BECAUSE IT WAS THE SAMPLE EVERYONE TRIED ON."

That's the best/worst part of finding gross things... Is eyefucking everyone in the vicinity to see if you can suss out who is the pooper.

Not sure if you've jinxed yourself, I hope not. Maybe put some signs up saying that you have surveillance cameras that upload to YouTube?

Ah, god. I never thought I'd look at strangers and wonder which one was disgusting enough to shit in a fitting room and use a pant leg as toilet paper but then I worked retail and became a jaded, broken person.

Just goin out to try on some gowns, eat some wings and poo... At the same time.

My mother is very intense and very critical and, as the years go by, she has less and less of a filter on any of this. While I am not competitive with my best friend, since high school (12 years ago) my mom has been competitive with her (and my BF's mother) on my behalf. During our first stop wedding dress shopping,…

No real stories. Just a sad log in the aisle... And another time, a sad log in the fitting room.

My mother is a horror show but I invited her dress shopping because she was in town for the weekend and I figured it was just a day…what could go wrong. Anyway, it wasn't too bad until we got to a dress she loved and I was "meh." Then they brought out another dress and it was "THE ONE". I loved it. It loved me.…

People actually shit...?? No. Tell me that was said for comic effect, or TELL US THE STORIES!!

I never threatened in any way, but I was the mom that wanted her to try on 2 dresses I liked. She liked them fine and looked cute in them, but didn't light up like she did with THE dress.

My cousin brought her future mother-in-law shopping. The MIL stated that all strapless dresses were slutty and absolutely insisted that my cousin try on a bunch of dresses that were horrendous. The MIL didn't pay for jack shit for the wedding, so her rude bossiness was absolutely unjustified. My cousin is a saint…

Exact same thing happened to me! I went alone on a bus on a weekday and had the shop to myself. A woman and her mother happened in off the street to look at bridesmaid dresses, and the mother said I should choose the one I was wearing. She said "You look like the most glamourous movie star bride!" It's easy to…

I was helping my friend shop for hers, and while she was in a room another bride and her mom were really struggling to decide between two. I had seen her try on both and told her, "If you need a deciding vote, I pick #2, you look amazing in it!" She was so relieved to have someone just toss the solution out there,…

"But all the High End places serve champagne!"

My mom gave up talking about the kids. If my fiance and I ever actually set a date, though, we're doing it on a cruise ship. I don't care if it's tacky. My mom still thinks you can get the wedding she wants (catered, with lots of guests and the like) for $5000. When we were talking details, she kept trying to add…

I wanted pouffy as you could get... in black. But was shot down. My mom convinced me to tone it down on the layers of frou-frou and color of the dress by saying I looked like the Devil's cupcake. I did see another black gown with less pouff and more lace but by then my mother's withering words and scathing looks had…

that was my life, 6 days a week, for 5 years...

Adorable! I take all the nonjudgmental maternal energy I can get.