Weddingbee Blog

As some of you may remember, long, long ago, I decided on the style of dress I wanted for our attendants.

However, yesterday when our Matron of Honour and Best Lady went to try on the mockups for their dresses, I realized that my original style decision had turned into a bit of a nightmare as the pleats I thought were so cute in the picture I saw in the Lazaro catalogue were not working at all with the fabric we were working with. The only way we could get them to look the way they looked in the picture was through internal construction using some sort of boning, which I totally did not want to do. I mean we’re getting married outdoors in June - how massively uncomfortable would it be to be trapped inside some sort of dress cage in that kind of heat?

So, after hashing it out with my seamstress, we decided the best thing to do would be to scrap that detail and go back to the drawing board. I still felt the dresses needed something to jazz them up so they had a bit of shape and a bit of style to them, so we started to talk about doing something along the lines of a sash.

As much as I like sashes (I originally considered doing one with my dress), I was a bit reluctant to automatically go with that option since I wanted to make sure that the sash worked with the dresses and didn’t look weirdly stuck on after the fact. However, after perusing some more dress pictures I think I found some sashes that might work with what we’re doing. So, onto the candidates!

Sash 1: Tone on tone - A sash made from the same fabric as the dress.

Sash 2: Double waist - A small ribbon sash a few inches above the natural waist.

Sash 3: Waist wrap - A thicker belted look without a bow. This one kind of reminds me of an Obi sash.

Sash 4: Double ribbon - This one has two different colours in the sash.
(If we went with this option, the outer colour would match the colour of Mr. Hummingbird’s suit and the inner colour would match the dress fabric.)

Sash 5: Empire sash - My dress has an empire waist so this would kind of echo that.

Sash 6: Natural waist droop bow - This is as close to a butt bow as I want to get.

Sash 7: Flower brooch - Kind of self-explanatory.

So ladies, what do you think? Which style is your favourite or which style would you prefer if you were a Maid/Matron of Honour/Best Lady/Bridesmaid?