The dress was worn for pictures before the ceremony, the ceremony itself, and our first dance (maybe 2-2 1/2 hours total). I then changed into a different dress for the reception.
The dress comes with a plain satin sash and not the beaded one as shown in the pictures (The dress originally came with the plain one. I bought the beaded one myself and I'm going to keep it for memories sake.)
I'm never going to wear this dress again so I hope it can have a second life at someone else's wedding instead of sitting in a bag in my closet and they can get as much joy out of it as I did.
The dress can be seen on the website: