The Bridesmaid Dress Saga (part one)

Let me tell you the tale of the hunt for red bridesmaids dresses. I will give you a glimpse of the ending of the story - the bridesmaids dresses are not red. But the original thought was that they would be. And so the hunt began. I have dragged my poor sisters to countless bridal shops to look at dresses. I went from these...

To these...

But I was never quite satisfied. I knew I wanted my colors to be champagne and crimson, but who knew there were so many shades of crimson! They all looked too orange, too purple, too red, or too pink. And if I found the right shade, the dress was too simple, too short, too plain or too....just not right. And so the search continued....