I just wanted to tell you you are NOT a bridezilla AT ALL! If anything, you have a momzilla on your hands... You are the complete opposite -- trying to please everyone. But try to remember this is your day to celebrate your love with your fiance. Most people forget that's what weddings are about, especially family members -- I got some of this first hand, too. It's really upsetting to think that people are trying to make a day that suppose to be about you and your fiance and the love you share and the life you will be beginning and turning it into something about them and their family dramas! I know it's going to be hard, but stand firm and believe in YOURSELF. You are a wonderful person, you have a supportive fiance, YOU DESERVE HAPPINESS.

In the manner of dress shopping, I tend to agree with wagner. Don't reschedule. I don't know how hard it would be to reschedule with salon, and you don't want to keep postponing this for your mother, especially if there is a risk she might cancel again. Just be careful with taking pictures -- a lot of places won't let you for the very reason of wagner's suggestion. I did get my dress through a bridal salon, and I didn't think it was very expensive (I thought it looked like it should have cost a lot more than it actually did). A friend of a friend only wanted to spend $300 on her dress, and she was able to do it through David's Bridal (just be careful with them, I've heard terrible, terrible things about their sales people's attitudes). You can shop around to find something you can afford. Perhaps you can go to a different salon with your mom after going on the 7th with your future mother in law?