Comments on: Non-matching bridesmaid dresses

By: jess

jess — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:14:05 +0000

aww you and your girls look beautiful!

By: Theresa Adams

Theresa Adams — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:44:12 +0000

I love this. I have six bridesmaids ranging from 22-40 years old and the thought of picking one dress for all of them was horrible to me. They live in three different states as well. I'm giving them little silk flower petals and ribbon cuttings of the five shades of blue for them choose from and letting them pick whatever style they like. I will be making them all hair clips with little charms sewn in that represent something that they like (skulls, dragonfly, monkey) so they will each have their own flair. Same for the MOG and MOB. It has really worked out well so far. No complaints from anyone.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:09:21 +0000

Ah! Thank you- colour cards – what a brilliant idea!! I have been worrying that my 4 non-matchy bridesmaids might end up looking just un-coordinated but colour cards will solve that. Cheers!

By: Roisin

Roisin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:58:23 +0000

Great pictures, im doing this too. My bridesmaids are all different shapes, sizes and have different colouring. So they all have just above knee, kinda jewel toned (royal blue, rich burgundy and fushia pink) dresses and they all look gorgeous and unique. They are worried about not looking like bridesmaids so im making them all matching tiaras! All our groomsmen are having different coloured bow ties too (red orange and green) so that they are like a rainbow
They are all happy they have a bit of input.
Getting a hard time from relatives about 'colour scheme' though, get over it guys, rainbow is gonna look awesome!

By: Amy Jones

Amy Jones — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:56:11 +0000

Well, I keep on studying the sites where I could start planning for my wedding. For I have not yet decided who would be my wedding planner but I guess I will myself plan my wedding.. which is not so big deal in itself.

By: skye

skye — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:42:09 +0000

im wondering if this (different dress or different color dresses) works better if there are more than 2 bridesmaids. i am leaning towards either of these options even though i have a feeling my two friends will probably choose to match. the eclectic look might be better with three plus maids….but i think seem to be the only person truly 'offbeat' planning the wedding : )

By: Alexsis

Alexsis — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:52:10 +0000

I tried with my maids also… they somehow picked the exact same David's Bridal dress…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:39:41 +0000

I think this is a great idea. The girls can pick a dress that fits their body style and that they are comfortable in. And who knows they may actually get to wear it again sometime.

By: ashley

ashley — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:23:08 +0000

I originally wanted to go the non-matching route, but after considering whether or not the fabric, etc. would blend with my dress (it's not a "typical" shade) I decided to go with the same color and fabric type, but let my bridesmaids pick from about 5 different styles/lengths of dresses. All of them were fine with it. Since it's a very universally flattering shade, I knew they'd appreciate it and wear it at a later date as well. BTW- dresses were from J Crew in shade "dusty shale"…:P

By: Yuki

Yuki — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:33:19 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tips! From my experience, I think most bridesmaids still want to be within the wedding color theme. The last time my sister had a wedding, she told her bridesmaid to pick whatever dress they want and would be comfortable with, and she'd pay for it. But then, the bridesmaids actually asked her the color of the wedding scheme. It ended up that all the bridesmaids wearing blue color but all of them were wearing different style.

I think that wearing whatever dress that we like but within the color scheme is much better than randomly pick our own color. Just because, it makes me feel that I'm actually the bridesmaids who knows the bride well ~