Last night I stayed at Patti’s house in order to get ready for the Running of the Brides! We woke up at 5:30 am and left the house by 6am, but when we got there we realized we obviously had no idea how crazy some DC brides are. The ladies in the front of the line had camped outside of Filenes Basement for 2 days! Who honestly has that much time?
Our team consisted of me, Patti, Kristy, Sam, and Patti’s mom and dad! Us ladies had matching camo shirts, and when we got there we had about 50 or so brides in front of us. The line was ridiculous:
The line behind us was even more ridiculous, haha
We waited in line, had some McDonalds, and people watched until 8am when they opened the doors, and it was mass chaos. Brides and their team members were running and screaming like, well crazy people. This is what the poor store had to deal with:
Just look at all those poor expensive dresses laying on the ground. Once we got into the store all of the wedding dresses had already been pulled off of the racks! So we had to go to plan B which was find the group with the largest pile and stand next to them. We found this nice group who had a pile of about 100 wedding dresses, which technically was against the rules because rule #1 was no hoarding, regardless they needed the same size dress as Patti did, so we took the dresses they didn’t like. You have to understand the system; if you don’t have a wedding dress to trade you are not going to get one… ever…. Unless you find some nice people and beg them for one dress they don’t want. Which is obviously what we had to do. But it was all worth it because Patti found her wedding dress!!! She did suffer a minor injury, probably caused by one of her own bridesmaids! Haha
We had a really great time, and I will most definitely do it again for anyone else that needs a cheap wedding dress! Well folks I must rest now, it was a long morning of bridal stampedeing !
Question: Have any of you ever been to the Running of the Brides? What did you think?
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