Oh. No.

A word from the (newly) wise ...

Do not wait until the week before the wedding of your youngest brother to try on the outfit that you carefully selected (and spent much of the husband's money on), but hadn't actually put together at any point until now, because you might just find that it doesn't work, and then not having your rings back from the jeweller yet (!!) will be the least of your problems.

You'll find yourself standing in front of a mirror looking at yourself from every angle possible wondering if you are imagining things, or the separate pieces that looked fantastic all by themselves look completely weird put together. Then, the husband will walk in, stop and say "That looks terrible" and it will appear that it's not your imagination after all, because the husband wouldn't risk life and limb coming out with that, if it didn't, in fact, actually look terrible.

And, it won't even be something that you might be able to pull off by adding something or pretending that you actually look fab, therefore convincing other people that they're the ones with the crap fashion sense, because it really does look really bad.

Heaven knows also how you will remedy the situation with but a week until the wedding either, when every shop in Auckland is on sale and therefore minus a crapload of stock until the winter stuff comes in (and hello, winter stuff isn't exactly what you need for a February wedding in the midst of what appears to be a heat wave), but you will have to work it out in short order. Not to mention that you bought a green clutch to go with your green skirt and there's every chance that you certainly won't be wearing a green skirt any more (although YAY! for you still fitting a skirt that you had made for a wedding three years ago!!)

This folks, is what we call a big ass problem.