I'm a MOG

Mother of the Groom.
It's a new one for me. I've had lots of roles in weddings, but this one is a first. I have 2 more after this one...but for now...I'm on a learning curve.

I tell my oldest all the time he's my guinea pig. But truth be told, they all are. I digress....I'm talkin' wedding stuff today, not child rearing.

So MOG I be.
What I have learned so far:

- it really IS the brides day
- keeping your nose out of things is as easy as you choose it to be
- having an awesome future daughter in law makes it a heck of a lot easier
- dress shopping for such a day is not as easy as it sounds
- there are still areas to "let go" of your son
- tears are annoying
- tears are deceiving
- tears are inevitable...get use to it

I'm sure there's more.....it is a learning curve for this chickie who has planned, decorated, participated in, been involved in, helped with numerous areas in and assisted, many brides on their wedding days. This MOG's  place is to sit back, offer help, support, encouragement, small insignificant ideas and pour myself into the planning of the rehearsal dinner to help satisfy the planning bug!

The dress shopping hasn't actually been too painful....yet. So far I've just been making fun and groaning at the "Mother of the Groom/Bride" options. ARE THEY KIDDING ME!?  How frickin' old is the typical MOG?
95!?
Then for some odd reason....the pendulum swings far left and some of the dresses look like pageant costumes for 5 year old mini beauty queens. Good grief.

So the rules for dresses for me so far are:
- no white
- no black
- no mini
- no boobage
- no matronly
- no little jacket thingy that matches and I guess is suppose to add some kind of gawd awful style to the already hideous dress.

Shouldn't be too hard....right?

Promising no?
Maybe the fact that it doesn't actually do up in the back cuz it's about 4 sizes too small?
Ya...
and the fact that I can hardly drag the weight of it around. By the end of the day I would actually be able to fit into it from the massive calories burned from hauling that thing everywhere. Oye!

I think I'll continue my search.
Violet prom may not be the best look for this MOG for a November wedding.

Hmm...I wonder how red sequins would look......