Dressing My Ladies

I hope you guys like my little header action.  I figured I’d make a little header for my wedding posts.  Because they are cute and I like being able to organize stuff into proper categories.   It’s one of my things…sue me   On to your wedding post:

From the start, I knew that I didn’t want my girls wearing matching dresses.  I have 4 wonderful ladies that are in my wedding party who I adore – but they are not the same size, shape, or anything else that would be compatible in the same dress.  And a more selfish reason – I really like pictures of weddings where people are wearing multiple designs.  I really like multiple color weddings, but for whatever reason I never really ambitiously went after that one.  So in mid April, my girls and I all got together and went shopping.

I went into the weekend with 4 goals:

1. None of my girls would have to spend over 200 (preferably over $150…but I figured this wouldn’t happen)
2. They would all have a dress that they could wear again (no 27 Dresses style nonsense for my chicas!)
3. Everyone would like their dress…bride and bridesmaid included.
4. The dresses would be different…but have some similarities that tied the girls together.

I originally had the dream of them wearing black and white dresses.  I thought this would look fabulous, sassy, and make the dresses really re-wearable.  Unfortunately, when we started shopping, I quickly realized that this wasn’t going to happen.  Nobody could find dresses at regular dress stores that looked good to them or to me.  So instead of going the completely alternate route, we decided to pack it up and go to the wedding warehouse of doom – I mean David’s Bridal.

Much to my surprise, this turned out to be the best decision we could have made.  After only about an hour (and most of this time was trying on the dresses after about a 15 minute wait), everyone had a dress that they liked AND I liked on them.

I was so happy that in under 3 hours – I had 4 bridesmaid dresses and this part of wedding planning was completed.  How did I do on my goals?  Nobody spent over $200 and only 2 of the dresses were over $150 (barely).  Check!  Everyone had a different dress, even though that took some work.  Check!  Everyone really liked their dress – I have smiling bridesmaids in my pictures! Check!  I don’t know if the girls will wear their dresses again – but each thought they could again, especially if they cut them shorter (they are all formal length).  I’m very happy that I was able to get this done and get this done cheap and FAST.

So what will my ladies sport down the aisle?  Voila!

In black, all from David’s Bridal (pictures and actual dresses).  I love the way they look together, very classy and chic.  I also love how each dress really matches the personality of the woman wearing the dress.  I can’t wait to work on accessorizing them and putting together their bouquets.