friday flashback- the bobsey twins

There may have been a hint of panic in my Mother's voice when she asked me to help her shop for a dress to wear to my brother's wedding. You see, she had already purchased a dress, but it was beige, a colour she had just learned the mother of the bride had planned on wearing. It was only weeks until the wedding, no time to order anything in from a bridal salon. We were just going to have to go out and hope we found something, amazing, that fit off the rack.

As luck would have it Mom found a dress, she loved, in the first store we hit. It wasn't anything really fancy - read not your typical mother of the groom dress. I admit I wasn't sure about the dress as it hung on the hanger, but when Mom put it on I could tell it really suited her. Never once did it register with me that I had seen this dress before. My Aunt (my Mom's sister) had worn the exact same dress to a wedding she and my Uncle had attended earlier that summer. A wedding I also happened to be at. A wedding my Mother hadn't attended.

So fast forward to Dave and Mel's big day. Our entire family (aunts, uncles, cousins and so on) had booked into the same motel, so you can imagine what a flurry of activity that place was the day of the wedding. We were outside preparing to leave for the ceremony when my Aunt D (my Mom's sister in law) asked my Mom if she had seen her sister yet.

Do you see where this is going?



In what can only be referred to as a blatant case of great minds think alike. My Mom and her sister had inadvertently bought the exact same dress and then they both wore it to Dave and Mel's wedding. So very funny and luckily, they thought so too.