There are a lot of wedding superstitions out there. Many of them are fascinating and would be fun to incorporate into a wedding, but I recently realized I’m in the minority about one important superstition: Mr. Snow seeing my dress (if I ever get around to finding a dress).
I love love love all the ladies who save their dresses for a big reveal on their wedding day. I think that touch is so sweet and beautiful, and creates such lovely pictures and stories to kick off the wedding festivities, but for us, it is a little impractical. Mr. Snow, myself, and all our wedding DIY goodies will be packed in a VW Golf for 12 hours to get to the wedding. We’ll be in crunch time, and it is incredibly likely he’d see it unless I keep it in the moldy basement storage unit then smoosh it in the trunk or ship it home, which don’t seem to be practical solutions for me. 
I’ve read so many stories of the dress being accidentally left in the open the day before the wedding after months of careful hiding (someone’s mom wants to show it grandma, the steamer comes early, the door isn’t locked, the bride forgets it is there and sends future spouse to get something), and I grieve for those brides who had the moment of reveal taken out of their hands because of the many different people that come in to help at the end of wedding preparations. I’m too much of a weenie to go there.
And, to be totally honest, I just can’t set myself up to worry about keeping it out of his sight when I’ve got napkin rings and drinking straws to occupy my type-A self.
In deciding that my dress will be on full “check it out any time you want” display, I’m following in one of my bridesmaids, J’s (I gotta work out some cuter WB pseudonyms for these ladies!) footsteps, who also made dress-hiding a low priority. She was a gorgeous, gracious bride who planned her wedding under an interesting, sometimes stressful set of circumstances. The day of the wedding, we were all waiting to walk down the aisle for her ceremony when her now-husband walked out to get his boutonniere. The sweet church wedding coordinators had an almost freak-out and started apologizing and asking J if she wanted to go back to the bridal suite. Her husband told J she looked beautiful, then said, “If we believed in superstitions, we’d have been done for a long time ago,” and twirled his soon-to-be wife. It was one of the most tender, sweetest moments I’ve seen at a wedding.
So, there will be no dress-hiding for me, even though I think it is a sweet, exciting detail to incorporate in wedding planning. I think our venue burning down was superstitious enough for us to avoid any other potential bad-luck moments.
Has your SO seen your dress? Was it a big moment in itself, even if you didn’t choose to do a big “reveal” on your wedding day?
This article was originally posted onWeddingbee.
