This post may be useful is you are in the process of planning your wedding and are struggling to choose your bridesmaid’s dresses. We have listed five essential tips to keep these parts of the preparations stress free and hope that you’ll find them useful.

Five Essential Tips for Choosing Bridesmaids Dresses

Settle on the Bride’s Dress first

It is very important that you first of all choose your own dress prior to even thinking about what your brides may wear as you don’t want clashing colour schemes or styles because it is your day. Try to create the bridesmaids dresses around your own vision but don’t be afraid to listen to your bridesmaids either as it is important that they feel comfortable in what they are wearing as well.

The Matter of Money

Weddings can be a costly business, and upon asking your friend or family member if they would like to be a part of your big day, they may expect in this economic climate to be asked to contribute towards the cost. Of course, this can work the other way, it is only fair that if no help is given towards the cost, then the style, design and colour are left up to you.



Style and Designs

Bridesmaids are usually chosen because they are a close friend of you or your husband to be. Bearing this in mind and the fact that there may be several bridesmaids, it is important to consider the individual styles of each one. Are they adults or are there children? If there are younger bridesmaids, will they have the same dress or a different version?

Cocktail dresses are trending right now and are an appropriate and modern design for a bridesmaid dress. The style of a cocktail dress does have the advantage of suiting most ages and shapes, leaving everyone happy. In order to give you some inspiration, here are five cocktail dresses that you may want to consider as a bridesmaids dress.

Hair and Accessories

Each bridesmaid’s hair is likely to be different from each other and it is here that individuality can be celebrated, rather than trying to clone everyone. One way to keep everyone happy may be to all agree on a standard cocktail dress, but perhaps altered or accessorised according to the individual who is wearing it, and experimenting with different hairstyles. By choosing this way of working, the whole set up of bride and bridesmaids will be cohesive, but will still show a little of everyone’s personal style.

The Brides Big Day

You may have compromised and cajoled and worked hard to please everyone, but on occasion it may be necessary to remind your bridesmaids whose day it actually is! All in all, your bridesmaids will have been thrilled to have been hand selected by you to be your ladies in waiting for your special day, and they will understand that their dresses are there to compliment your bridal gown, and not upstage it!