This is the week I’m in Italy shooting Angela’s wedding …. I went with her to one of her final dress fittings a couple weeks ago, so let’s consider this a mini-sneak-peek of her wedding images .. …

Rather than purchasing a dress (for some unknown thousands of dollars), Angela is renting her (I think) Vera Wang wedding dress from One Night Affair (in Santa Monica).

If you don’t think you’ll have sentimental attachments to the dress – keeping it as a family heirloom and so on – this is a deal and a half …

Angela is renting the dress (for 2 weeks), plus all alterations and insurance for much less than $1000.

HOWEVER:

One Night Affair completely ruined Angela’s dress. From what I understand, the one she had picked out (below) was NOT altered at all when she went to pick it up, and they ended up giving her a different dress that was “shredded” – a lace up back taken out of the back dress, a rip on the front…. as I type this, getting ready to leave for Italy, I still don’t know what Ang is going to wear for her wedding on Wednesday!

So, maybe only use them if you have the time to make sure it’s done properly?

Angela went to pick up her dress the day before leaving for Italy and so had no chance to take a close look, determine that it was completely unusable and take the dress back.

I’m sure she’ll look beautiful, as usual, though.