It was a 1930s Hollywood movie premiere style theme, and everyone was supposed to get really dressed up. That posed a problem for me: how was I supposed to find something 1930's era-appropriate that fit my tall frame AND was affordable?
I went to seven thrift stores over three months looking for just the right thing to wear, but couldn't find anything. Mom and I looked at dress patterns, and found a beautiful one! Jesse and I went to JoAnn's and used a booklet of coupons to buy everything we needed for a beautiful midnight blue satin evening gown--for $35! The dress pattern came with two styles, and I liked the front of one style, and the back of the other. My mom is an amazing seamstress and was able to piece the two patterns together to get just the look I wanted--as well as adding inches in all the right places so the floor-length style actually reached the ground on me!
Jesse's character was Stu Dyron (play on words: stud iron) and he was a dashing stunt man turned star of the silver screen. He was supposed to be a womanizer who sought out every new starlet who came to Hollywood. The funny thing was that my character was the only girl he had not been in a romantic relationship with!
I was Denise N. Dayer (Da niece/the niece and heir), assistant director and niece of the weathy Hollywood producer who was murdered. It cast a bad light on me the whole time, but I turned out innocent :)
Anyway, we had a lot of fun! Here are some pictures that Jesse's mom took:
Outside right before the dinner began
The others in the cast were Loraine, the wife of Hope's principal, Nel, one of the school secretaries, Ben, the 7th grade teacher at Hope, Pastor, and our good friends, Tyler and Stacey Stover. (Not that you can see everyone in this picture!)
I feel bad that my back was to Momma B, and Jan and Robert the whole time...but isn't the back of the dress pretty?!? :-)
Jesse and Stacey were supposed to be in an intimate relationship. Stacey and I shared a red lipstick, and at the end of each round, I would sneak off with Jesse to add another kiss mark to the womanizer's face. It was funny how many people from our church were genuinely concerned that the lipstick was coming from Stacey!
Taking a moment to smile with Robert and Jan
(Momma B, I'm sorry that we don't have any pictures with you from that night!)
Here is the entire cast from the evening!
We had a lot of fun. Thank you, Momma B, Jan, and Robert for coming to see us, and thank you, Mom, for a beautiful dress that was made just for me!
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