“The dog ate my dress”: 4 ways to get out of being a bridesmaid
Declining to be in a wedding party or worse, backing out after you’ve already committed, can be a delicate maneuver. Sometimes it’s financial, sometimes it’s too much of a time commitment, and sometimes there are just personal or emotional reasons that you can’t commit. But sometimes it has to be done for logistical reasons or just for your own self-care. Here are four ways to get out of being a bridesmaid if you’ve found that it’s not in the cards for you.
Aesthetic vs. identity: how cool are you with changing your look as a bridesmaid?
Remember this post about how to be an offbeat bridesmaid in a traditional wedding and where to draw the line with changing your look to suit the bride’s wishes? If you’re reading this site, chances are you’ve been there. Maybe more than once. We’ve got some follow-up real talk from reader Vanda that we needed to share…
Would your bridesmaids rock BERETS?!
Are you loving these bridesmaid berets as much as I am? They’re from one of my favorite weddings, Ellen and Chris’ Moonrise Budapest Hotel Kingdom: A very Wes Anderson wedding. They had a ton of awesome movie-themed and vintage details that we wanted to call out. But this wedding party detail is one way Ellen tied all of her mismatched bridesmaid styles together.
Want to stand out in a dark wedding dress? Have your crew wear light colors!
If you’ll be rocking a dark wedding dress (especially if you’re a Halloween bride!), you might be worried about standing out in the crowd. My suggestion? Follow Stephanie’s lead and ask your wedding party to dress in a white or a lighter color. I am so digging the black-meets-champagne aesthetic going on here…
Someday our Disney princess bridesmaids will come…
I spied this collection of super adorable, super affordable, and amazingly Disney-inspired outfits over at one of my fave shopping haunts, Unique Vintage. It’s appropriately named The Happiest Collection on Earth. In addition to being amazing bride fashion fodder, it just screamed Disney princess bridesmaids!
These vintage travel cases are the bouquet alternatives of our wanderlust dreams
We featured the sweetest vintage travel-themed wedding featuring flight attendant-inspired bridesmaids, vintage airmail favors filled with candy from around the world, and so many map and globe details we couldn’t even count. Don’t miss the bride’s map shoes! It was a wanderlusting dream. But how could we ignore the FANTASTIC non-floral “bouquets” held by the bridesmaids: vintage travel cases! They made for some of our most favorite wedding party shots ever. Let’s spy the many retro-fabulous vintage travel cases that Marvyl’s bridesmaids carried to pitch-perfect effect.