What do I do? I hate my bridesmaid dress

[texasgal]

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This.

 

[bockbock2008]

A 6'7" Cowboy

Oh yea dresses. I agree with abunch of the other posters. If you can talk to your sister about it, do it. If not, grin and bear it!

 

[Nupine]

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/uglydress_2031_24540123

You could be wearing this?

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i would suggest talking with your sister about the different body types and styles of dresses, your mom may have to intervene with some help. it may not be something she is even thinking about. usually the bride gets all caught up in what they want things to look that day that they get a little blindsided with things they like but others don't like the look or feel of.

i was happy with my sister's wedding choice of color and dresses, but i know that one of the other bride's maids didn't seem to care for the style (but she was pregnant at the time too). the maid of honor got to choose her dress and style but still had to stick close to the color. my mother was the one who brought some sense to my sister since her first choice was something strapless and form fitting that wouldn't look good on me. she ended up choosing empire waists (a line) that complimented most of us.

my friend on the other hand had her mother make the dresses and i hated the idea of a 2 piece dress that the top kept trying to ride up on me. (i'm overweight so 2 piece is not flattering at all!

) the color wasn't a problem but they style was. that style was my friend's doing, she would not budge from the style. her mother is a seamstress and kept trying to bring up the body style fact but she did not move from it one bit.

when it was my wedding i kept it fairly simple. i only had my matron of honor i had to worry about. i made my dress based on one i saw online and a Simplicity pattern i modified to have a small train on the back. i told my friend to find a blue color close to my color in the dress and go with something that looked like it was Hawaiian. it did not have to be a Hawaiian dress but she did a great job and i've seen her wear the dress to other things since. i even offered to make her's if she didn't find anything she liked but we could find a pattern and some fabric that would compliment.

there was a tv show a few years ago that used to re-do old bridesmaid dresses to something more up to date. i can't remember the name of the show but i thought it was awesome for some of those more 'flamboyant' dresses people used to wear in the 80's that they kept but never re-used. my sister's bridesmaid dress got worn again once by me and last Halloween she re-used it as a Mother Nature costume since it fit her.

 

[froggie71]

Anyone seen the movie 27 dresses where she makes her 27 bridesmaids wear the dresses she wore in their wedding?

 

[LarryPQ]

Funniest scene ever. And wonderfully/strangely beautiful, too!

 

[cmb19]

I'm busy planning my own wedding right now..I've let my bridesmaids give me links to dresses they like so we can all pick something they'll agree on, I figure it's only fair if they pay for them.

Whatever you do, do NOT take the dress and have it altered without discussing it with her first. I would think of that as extremely rude and make you stand out from the other girls because they won't have the dresses altered drastically. I was at a friends wedding and his sister went and had her dress changed from the rest of the girls and she looked absolutely terrible compared to the rest, and those dresses were actually cute and didn't need to be changed. He was very, very unhappy and if I had a girl change her dress the way she did I would be so unbelievably angry because it looked terrible...it didn't help she wore shoes that could have belonged to a prostitute.

 

[redhen]

I dont think that you should say anything..
i know, its hard. But...its her day..her wedding. She picked them for a reason....i guess..

Just grin and bear it...

ETA..i'n not sure if my brides maides really liked their dresses or not....and i dont care...

because i liked them..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I like the first one. Why not see if you can convince her that the fru-fru going on at the bottom will detract the attention from her dress.

?? They are the same dress--one a view of the front, the other a view of the back.

 

[WingingIt]

I wish I had a picture of what we wore in my cousin's wedding handy to share. It was a fire engine red VELVET dress........long sleeves, HUGE poofy shoulders, HUMONGOUS bow in the back and longer on the sides of the hem than in the middle. I was 15 and I think the thing weighed just as much as I did! Oh - then she had someone come in and do our makeup and someone else do our nails - so we had fire engine red nails and lips, too. The pictures are all ghosts with red lips standing in red dresses.