The Big Day Approaches
I was chatting to a bride today who was only at the beginning of her planning stages. She was asking me all sorts of questions about shoes, fabrics and colours, not that I’m the expert or anything, but it was really nice to see how another bride was thinking.
Now I’m down to just over 3 months to go, It’s really exciting!
I’m going to try to answer some of the bride’s questions in my blog just in case there are other brides who have the same questions.
All You Need to Know About Being a Bridesmaid
I have been asked to be a bridesmaid five times and have loved every minute of each one!
The first time, I was 9 years old for my aunt and I remember going for the dress fitting and being excited about the bouquets we were going to have. We had beautiful flower garlands in our hair and lilac bridesmaid dresses.
Could this be where my love of lilac began?
I have had a different coloured dress each time I’ve been a bridesmaid and been completely honoured and touched to have been a bridesmaid!
I Just Saw My Bridesmaids’ Dresses!
The bridesmaids dresses are in! I was really worried about the colour but I really like them! They match the colours of all the other items at the wedding, and the wedding flowers too!
Here’s a sneaky peek at three of the dresses. The colour isn’t quite right because of the lighting at the shop, but it’s close enough.
I hope my bridesmaids like them. Lilac isn’t to everyone’s taste, but they did choose the style of dress.
As I said in a previous post, I chose two styles of dresses and gave my bridesmaids the option of choosing two different dresses but the all chose the same, which was fine too.
I really do hope they like them. I’m really pleased with how they turned out. I was really worried they would look almost white but they were very strongly lilac. I just hope they’re not too pale for my bridesmaids.
Anyway, sooooo exciting! I text h2b to tell him I loved the dresses and he said, ‘everything is falling into place’ and it is! Yay!
Solutions?
I’ve been inspired to blog again by a google search titled, ‘I don’t like my bridesmaid dress.’
Being asked to be a bridesmaid makes me go a little giddy. I love weddings anyway, but to be chosen to feature in my friend’s most important day is a fantastic privileged and honour! 
However, what if the dress is hideous?
Hopefully, you and your friend have a similar taste in clothes, that’s why you’re friends, but what if you’re asked to be bridesmaid by a cousin or sister?
You all make the appointment to go to the dress shop. Maybe you meet in town and walk in together, looking forward to trying on your new dresses. And you’re faced with this pink monstrosity?
Unfortunately, and I hate to say this, you’re going to have to put up with it. There is no polite or sensitive way to say to a bride, who has searched and searched for the perfect bridesmaid dresses, that the dress is hideous and 
you don’t want to wear it.
You could hint that you’re not sure the dress suits you, but unfortunately, that’s as far as you can go.
As a bride who has hunted far and wide for bridesmaid dresses, it is difficult to find a dress that fits in with your theme and your taste, and one that you think will suit all your bridesmaids. While I hope that none of my bridesmaids think the dresses I’ve narrowed it down to are hideous, I don’t think I’d respond well if they told me they hated the dress!
So my advice, and you won’t like it, is to put up with the hideous dress. It’s just for one day and you can always have a laugh about it later.
I Have Found The One!
I just hope my bridesmaids like it as much as I do!
This dress is an Alfred Angelo. I was thinking of choosing 7016 but when the lady in the shop showed us this one (despite it being a touch more expensive) I just fell in love with it!
I hope my bridesmaids do too!
The sample dress is in blue but I’ll be going with it in purple. Each dress company has their own idea of purple, so check with a swatch that 
I love this little detail of diamantes and flowers. I think it adds something special to the dress, plus there is a lot of sparkle on my dress so it almost matches.
The dress is very soft and flowing, and gives the impression of floating, somewhat.
This dress also has a junior version so that my little niece who is going to be a bridesmaid will be able to have a matching dress.
The only thing is, I want my bridesmaids to
I tried to choose the dress as something I’d like to wear if I get to be a bridesmaid again.
I do like this fantastic blue colour but I think I’ll stick with the colours of the wedding.
Any opinions welcome!
