Wedding Blog

Call me crazy - I bought my bridesmaids’ dresses before I had even finished asking them to be my bridesmaids. Not that I have officially asked them yet, either —I’m getting around to it. I have one project to finish up, and then it will be official!

So, having been a bridesmaid once (going on twice) myself, I know that it is nice if the dress is affordable, cute, comfortable, and makes them look like the sexy women they are.

Trust me - I’m not a deluded bride who thinks that the hideous bridesmaid dress will actually be re-worn - I KNOW mine will (right, girls?)! But, I suppose beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. Very early on (in the pre-engagement days) I decided that I wanted my girls to wear cute little black dresses of their choosing. They’re slimming, re-wearable, and who doesn’t need another LBD? I know I could always use more! I also decided to be extremely lax about hair/makeup, shoes, jewelry - I mean, hey, they know what feels good and looks good on them, right?

So I started the long tortuous online search for potential bridesmaid dresses back in January. I originally was thinking of just finding some cute dresses to show my girls as ideas, and let them run wild. Until I found it. The most perfect, unique LBD ever. Seriously.

I hurried up and ordered this beauty from Nordstrom for my MOH (my beloved younger sister) to try on:

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I dare you to tell me it isn’t sexy. It’s a nice soft, stretchy material too - and it looked really great on her. Granted, the girl is a tiny size 2, but still. It looked fantastic!

Not only was this dress incredible, but it went on SALE. So I HAD to order it. Unfortunately, they only had one size left online! Enter my panic attack. I mean, this was the perfect vintage/romantic/soft/perfect dress that I had been looking for! And I couldn’t get it out of my mind, nor let this opportunity pass.

Mind you, this was occurring during the beginning of my finals week. I spent half of a day on the phone calling every single Nordstrom on the West Coast to hunt down the dresses. I probably should have spent that time studying a little more, but…

amazingly enough…

I got them all! (Plus a few extras, just in case.)

But even after I received the dresses, I was still torn - I really wanted to be all anti-bride and anti-matchy-matchy. But, I caught a bit of flack from my mom and future MIL about wanting black bridesmaid gowns to begin with, so I figured I could appease them by having all the girls match, at least.

I am now in the process of having all my girls try on the dresses to make sure they fit and look good. In the meantime, Nordstrom’s customer service has not only made sure that I got all the dresses that I wanted, in the sizes I wanted, but that I got them at the LOWEST price possible. They’re absolutely awesome. I love that place.

I don’t really care what shoes they wear, as long as they aren’t too crazy. I DO want my girls’ personalities to stick out, because that’s why I love them!

I’m so excited to get them all together to meet each other! Once I finish up my big bridesmaid project, I’ll be sure to share the details of how I officially asked my girls to stand by me…

Did you find that just choosing one dress for your girls was much easier than coordinating/organizing for them to wear different, similar dresses? Or, were your bridesmaids able to coordinate semi-matching dresses on their own?