That was not how these things worked. She knew this from every account she had heard, from Lucy's running commentary on other people's wedding preparations, from the general cultural understanding that finding the dress was a process, a journey, an ordeal that took multiple appointments and several emotional breakdowns before arriving at the correct conclusion.She found it in the second boutique. Second dress she tried.Diana and Lucy were on the velvet bench in the fitting room, which was not large enough for the size of Lucy's opinions but which contained them adequately. The consultant, a woman named Vera who had seen every conceivable reaction to every conceivable dress and had consequently become unflappable, helped Kristine into it and stepped back.The dress was not dramatic. That was the first thing. It did not arrive into the room. It was not covered in anything or structured in ways that required scaffolding. It was silk, ivory, cut simply, with a neckline that was lower th
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