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I've been looking through many wedding blogs and have been noticing that it's more common to mix up the color or style of the bridesmaid dresses instead of having them all wear the exact same dress.
What are you opinions on the mix-matching? Does it work if they're at least the same color or the same style? How about having them all different? Or all the same?
Just want to know what you think :) For those who have seen then first Sex and the City movie, I love how each girl had a different dress perfect for them but at the same time I wonder if it's just a current, untraditional plan.
i am having the same color but different styles for my wedding. i might have preferred to have same color and style, but i thought it would be too complicated with my BMs. so i decided to avoid potential issues and told them to choose their own style. although, i wouldnt have done this if i hadnt seen it done before and liked it.
I am telling my girls to get a "ruby" dress from DB that is floor lenght and they can decide which one they want. I want each of them to like what they are wearing and be comfortable.
I love the same-color-different-dress thing - I'm doing it! But I've also seen pics of BMs in different shades of the same color, and I think that looks great too. I think it looks better than everyone in the same dress, personally.
my BMs are going for same color/material type but different styles. it was easiest as all my BMs have very different body types, it was too hard to find one style that worked. i personally love mix-matching because it gives your pictures more liveliness and style, if that makes any sense. and i really loved the sex and the city mixed dresses!!
I gave my bm's a swatch of the color that I wanted them to match and let them buy their dress in whatever style, length, fabric, cost they wanted to. I was very happy with the results!
Same length, same colour & same material. I'm getting one of those convertible wrap dresses that you can wear 15 different ways, and I told them to wear it the way they feel most comfortable on the day. I thought it was a nice compromise. :)
I am also doing same colour and same material for my bm's dresses. I pulled out all the dresses for them to choose from and they picked different ones. All the bm's are wearing short and my MOH is wearing long. It looks really nice and this way they got to pick something they liked and they felt comfortable in and would wear again.
I'm telling my girls the colors of the wedding and letting them pick out whatever dress they want. I think it works better for everyone because they'll have a dress they can wear again.
We're doing same colour, material, length and designer. The style is different for each of them so that each girl can get something that they'll really be happy in on the day. I really hate the same style on all the bms because every girl's body is different, and what works for one or even two of the bridal party probably looks terrible on at least one of the other girls.
We did a mis-matched wedding party - the bridesmaids were told to get a purple, knee-length dress. The bridesman and groomsmen were told to get a grey suit. The groomswoman was told to get a grey or silver dress. Here's how it turned out:
I'm so indecisive about this! I've been thinking about the convertible dresses in the same colour/fabric, so they can wear them which-ever-way they'd like, but I'm really starting to love the different shades/cuts look.. hmm.
@redherring: I really like how that turned out! My fear is that my girls would have ended up with something not as cute as that.
My girls wore completely different dresses, and it ended up being one of my favorite parts of my wedding.
Yay for mismatched! I loved how it turned out. I asked my girls to pick any chocolate brown dress that they loved. And I told them "no jersey material." They did a great job :)
@artbee - Oh my gosh! Yours are the best mis-matched bridesmaids I've ever seen! So pretty.
I just went bridesmaid dress shopping with my cousin. At first, she was going to give all of us a color and length and tell us to have at it. Then, she decided she wanted the same fabric, and a few other "wants" creeped in. She said that by the time she had it narrowed down, there were two dresses to choose from.
I see a lot of fantastic mix-matched dresses on this post! Our colors are black and a yellow-gold shade, so I'm not sure how well it would work, but it looks lovely in your pics!
I mentioned this a couple times to my BM but the first time we looked they liked the same dress and then when we finally picked them out they were all happy to wear the same dress even though I said a couple times we could go the route of different dress, same color... I think it depends on what your girls want to do!
when I came across eShakti.com I saw several different styles of dresses in the same fabric and then they will customize most of their designs with different sleeves or necklines and hemlengths as well, and that sold me on them as the go to source for my BM dresses. I have 3 bridesmaids who couldn't be more different in size and height and finding one style that flatters all of them is impossible. So I am picking the fabric and the hemlength giving them a choice of about 5 dresses I found on the site, but they can do the necklines and sleeves however they want.
I LOVE the idea to mismatch the dresses. I am asking my bridesmaids to go shopping and buy a dress they would like to own.. my only request is the color. they know what looks best on themselves and I want them to feel comfortable. so what if it's not traditional.. it's fun and unexpected. if my guests don't like it.. oh well.
I chose the designer, colour, length (knee length) and fabric. My 5 bridesmaids had 6 different style options to choose from within those parameters. So far each girl has chosen an entirely different style and I'm really excited about it. I'm just waiting on the 5th girl to let me know what she wants. For some reason I think it will be extra cool if every single girl is in her own style. I can't wait to see how it all turns out!
Our girls each have a fall color they personally selected for the wedding. IMO I think they look nice together. They are all the same dress style though.
I just got home from a wedding that had mismatched bridesmaids, different shades of a limey green, and the main bridemaid in a print, it looked awesome!
@redherring: Love that! That's the look I'm going for - different styles and shades of purple dresses, and mismatched grey suits.
my 4 girls are wearing the same style dress but different pastel colours. i think if you just tell them a colour, and they get there own dress, then blue for instance, will all look a different blue depending on the fabric of the dress. and i dont want similar, i either wanted exact or totally different.
I'm in a wedding in which the bride kind of appointed colors to us (after coming to the conclusion she couldn't find the exact shade of green she wanted). Unfortunately there is now no cohesiveness to the dresses/look. One BM is wearing chiffon, the other velvet and me a cotton sateen. There is absolutly nothing that ties everything together. I've just had to let my opinions go on this since it's not my wedding!
It seems like it's getting pretty common in the wedding-blog-world, but my wedding is the only one I've been to in real life that had non-matching dresses. I was in a wedding where the bride said we could get different styles, but they had to be the same colour and length. We ended up all getting the same dress (this was several years ago so it was pretty hard to find different dresses at bridal stores, especially since we don't have chain stores like David's Bridal in my area). The way I look at it, there are pros to both sides. If you have matching, you know you will have uniform pictures and a dress style you agree with (e.g. not too revealing, informal and so on). With unmatching you will likely have happier bridesmaids, as they can pick a dress that suits their budget and body type. Personally I also liked the look as well, and was glad my sisters were able to pick what they liked best!
My BM's all will be wearing the same black dress. I like it when they are all the same for myself. They aren't paying for it, so if they never wear them again I don't care. 3 of 4 have said that it is a dress they will most likely wear again, so that is a bonus.
I like the mismatched if it is the same style in different colours or the same colour in different styles.
After a lot of debate and budgeting, we've decided the MOH will wear a black knee length dress of her choice with a pink sash, and the 3 remaining bridesmaids will pick patterns of their own choice in a knee length style in the same pink fabric. We will give them a black sash.
I figure this way all four will look like they go toegther and I'll have happier Bridesmaids.
I offered my girls to get any "quarry" dress from Alfred Sung, but they all picked the same one.
I'm doing same length, same fabric, and same color. Seems to be a happy medium between the traditional "everything the same" and completely mixed.
I love the same dress, but different shades of the same color; ie: light, medium and dark purple.
But for our wedding it was easier to pick one dress, since online was our biggest communication. We went with a black knee-length so they can all wear them again, and they all love their dresses. (Though one BM didn't get her dress or tell me that she didn't have a dress til the day before the wedding, so I told her to just find a black knee-length). I also had my MOH/sister and JBMs/SILs wear silver so they would stand out...
I originally wanted the same colour dress but in 3 different styles for my 3 BMs. But when it came to it, I fell in love with one particular dress which went well with my dress.
I'm also letting my girls choose their dresses, within a peachy/blush palette :0) We're also letting the guys pick their own grey pants and grey sweater vests.
@jwinnings: Have you played around with www.weddingtonway.com or any other bridesmaid's dress websites? It's kinda fun! You can pick your favorites, play around with colors, fabrics, lengths, and then create a "lineup", and print it out! Just to see what it could potentially look like :) Here's mine!
@redherring ,@October2010Bride, @artbee, @dodgercpkl,@Brianalaura: I really love each of your looks! Gives me more confidence that I will be happy with my final look :) Thanks for sharing!!
@Demidoll002: Thanks! I like the palette you're going with. We were going to have the guys pick their own gray pants/vests too, but they were so useless and insisted they needed to go shopping with my husband. You'll have to post pictures after you get all the dresses so we can see them.
I told my BM's they could pick the style, I just wanted it a certain shade from DB and a floor length (as the wedding is in November and more formal) and they all ended up picking the same dress - out of about 20 styles!
My sister is wearing a bolero to match though because she is a bit more conservative.
The girls have their free pick of shoes - in black with a peep toe.
I love the mismatched look, I just have BM's with very similar taste :)
I am doing same color, length and fabric for my girl. I was going to mix and match the lengths but three of my four girls have leg tattoos and I don't want them to show! But look how great mixed length can be...
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