The dress is fabulous.

To start from the very beginning – even before Noah and I got engaged we were talking about getting married “in space”.  Friends sent links to various blog stories about “The world’s first zero gravity dress” – which was designed by Japanese haute couture designer Eri Matsui for a company called spacewedding.jp.  The spacewedding.jp company will start launching couples into a low-earth orbit in 2011 for just 2.2 million.

When Noah and I decided to get married in zero gravity, I immediately thought of the zero gravity dress.  Was it expensive beyond our reach?  I had a friend in Japan (who was an exchange student at my high school, and who Noah and I stayed with in Japan in our 2007 trip) call up the Eri Matsui store and ask.
Read the rest of this entry »