It’s that time. I need to officially pick out bridesmaids dresses. I’ve been dragging this out because, to be honest, I feel like a bridezilla jerk telling my friends what to wear. I feel like it’s a big enough task to listen to me yammer, much less spend $XXX.XX on a dress and shoes for my wedding. My neuroses aside, I really, really love light gray bridesmaids dresses. I initially wanted to black for the dresses, but the gray just seems so chic and more appropriate for a summer wedding. I still might do black dresses, but that’s another post!
I know for bridesmaids dresses I want to choose one designer, one color, and preferably one fabric and just let ‘em go hog-wild. (Ok, I guess it’s not totally hog-wild since there are parameters). All four of the ‘maids could have different dresses, but there’d still be a common thread.
I love these J.Crew dresses in light pewter. The dresses on the top row are cotton cady, and the dresses on the second row are silk taffeta. I slightly prefer the taffeta dresses because it is a more formal fabric than the cotton cady.
Since we’re having this big ol’ technicolor-ed wedding, I love the look of bright shoes in assorted colors for the ‘maids. These shoes are by Nina in the “Design Your Own” section. I think that having a set of blue shoes, green shoes, yeller shoes, and pink shoes would look great. As we get closer to spring, there also will be more possibilities out for super bright and colorful heels.
Did you guys feel strange telling your bridesmaids what to wear? How did you straddle the divide between letting them choose their own dresses and having them wear what you wanted?
Also, light gray dresses with bright shoes– good idea or bad idea?
