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HELP! Bridesmaid dress colors?

posted 2 years ago in Bridesmaids
  • poll: What color Bridesmaid Dress should I choose?
    Ivory/Plum : (4 votes)
    80 %
    Ivory/Pewter : (1 votes)
    20 %
    Stick with Three colors! (If so, which 3?) : (0 votes)
    Other : (0 votes)
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    Busy bee
    mizrunzou    June 26, 2010   Kansas City, MO

    Help!  My bridesmaids all picked out and agreed up on a Jim Hjelm bridesmaid dress in August.  I was told, at the time, I could pick three colors (as long as they were the right fabric) from the swatch book and have in any order I wanted on the dress (bodice, sash, skirt)...So, I/we picked this order:

    Ivory Bodice, Plum Sash, and Pewter Skirt.

    My colors are Plum/Grey with a accent of chartruese (mainly from flowers).  FI and GM's tux are Grey from Calvin Klein.

    Salon went to order the BM dresses this week and Jim Hjelm said I can only pick TWO colors and the third will be the back of one of the fabrics (it is two-faced tafetta).  Well, the back of the plum is BLACK and the back of the Pewter is Stone.

    I don't want any of these combos...So, I'm thinking of just doing two colors...

    Ivory/Plum     OR      Ivory/Pewter

    Thoughts?  I'm attaching a pick of the original BM dress in three colors and FI's tux.  Jim Hjelm has a few similar designs that come in only two colors....I don't know if I'd have to change styles if I go with only two colors....

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    Honey bee
    bestbuddies    June 6, 2010   Chicago, Illinois

    very pretty dresses :D

     
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    Sugar bee
    Tulip61110    June 11, 2010   Philadelphia

    I vote for doing the ivory/plum.  I might be biased though - we are using those same gray tuxes, and the bridesmaids have purple dresses.  I love purple and gray together!  I actually don't like the idea of pewter, because with the GMs tuxes being gray, I think it might be too much of the same color.

     
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    mizrunzou    June 26, 2010   Kansas City, MO

    @Tulip:  That was my thought!  I actually brought in a pewter dress when FI was trying on his tux b/c I was worried about that.

    My only concern is now...do I keep the same style and have the sash AND skirt be plum?

     
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    Mattel    November 6, 2010   WNY

    I actually like the stone for the sash. IMHO :)

     
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    mizrunzou    June 26, 2010   Kansas City, MO

    @Mattel:  The stone isn't bad...but I don't really have any brown tones anywhere else....that is my only draw back there.

     
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    Sugar bee
    Tulip61110    June 11, 2010   Philadelphia

    @mizrunzou - I think it would look great to have both the sash and skirt be plum!

     
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    Busy bee
    mizrunzou    June 26, 2010   Kansas City, MO

    Thanks Ladies...I just called and ordered Ivory/Plum!!

    :)

     

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