Hi Everyone,
I am going to be 43 on my wedding day, and it's a first marriage for both of us. It will be a formal church wedding, with a country club reception (morning wedding, afternoon reception). I am wearing a strapless long ivory dress (A-line) with lace and beading.
I have 4 bridesmaids - one MOH (best friend), and 3 bridesmaids (all family). They are all in their 40's, and 3 of them are plus-sized (apple shaped). I won't give you all the details, but to keep it short, my MOH has body image issues, and has voiced many concerns since the beginning about pretty much every dress I suggested (ex. wouldn't wear a bolero jacket or wrap,wouldn't try on A-line or empire etc. etc. but didn't want sleeveless). It was very limiting. I really would have preferred to take her to a bridal shop and have the ladies help fit her, but she seemed so resistant to do so. In the end, I allowed to her choose her own dress, just to make her happy and so that there could be some closure.
She ended up choosing the dress in the first link below. Since they are separates, we took the other bridesmaids to the store to try different tops on, but once everyone got there, and saw the second dress, they really fell in love with it. Now, all the BM's are in the 2nd dress (no sleeves, pencil skirt), and the MOH stuck with the jacket but switched to the pencil skirt.
It was such a whirlwind at the store, that I agreed to it all, but am having such serious reservations about whether these dresses are appropriate to a formal wedding.
Please offer advice if you can. (By the way, they will be Aubergine - a deep eggplant/ purple color in taffeta). October wedding.
http://www.alfredangelo.com/collections/productdisplay.aspx?productID=56e35bfa-0721-456a-97d5-109a2219fce0&categoryID=01192db8-bf9e-425c-a67c-e0e9484157ae&pg=1&colorId1=http://www.alfredangelo.com/collections/productdisplay.aspx?productID=e62dff11-7be2-4131-9a54-2c2116a4b0fa&categoryID=01192db8-bf9e-425c-a67c-e0e9484157ae&pg=1&colorId1