Maid of Honor advice?

[sherbertlemons]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

So she and I are going to be looking for bridesmaid dresses over the holiday break (I'm in grad school), any tips on how to go about that (like what to consider when choosing a dress) I know that the body types of the different girls are imprtant to consider, but anything else?

You may want to consider the brand of bridesmaid dresses I bought. I thought they were really beautiful and looked quite expensive considering how much they cost. Honestly, I liked them so much I wanted one for myself, and a couple of my bridesmaids have actually reused them.

http://www.morilee.com/DressDetail.aspx?C=3&D=441&P=1

That's actually the link to my dresses. Mine were floor length and turquoise. Just to give you an idea of how much the line runs, I think my bridal shop charged 132.00in late 2006.

In general, I would try to only take 1 or 2 bridesmaids with you. More and drama tends to happen. However, and this goes double if you don't know them well, I would ask if they have any special concerns with the dress. For instance, my moh (a redhead) vetoed fuschia, and another of my bridesmaids would have felt really uncomfortable showing cleavage. Even if every bridesmaid makes one request, it will probably be possible to honor all of them if you are picking one single dress.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by sherbertlemons

You may want to consider the brand of bridesmaid dresses I bought. I thought they were really beautiful and looked quite expensive considering how much they cost. Honestly, I liked them so much I wanted one for myself, and a couple of my bridesmaids have actually reused them.

http://www.morilee.com/DressDetail.aspx?C=3&D=441&P=1


In general, I would try to only take 1 or 2 bridesmaids with you. More and drama tends to happen. However, and this goes double if you don't know them well, I would ask if they have any special concerns with the dress.

Funny you should post this because the brands we're looking at are Mori Lee or Bill Levikoff. Nothing against David's (because I know some of you have gotten things from there) but she has had bad experiences with them as a bridesmaid, and just didn't want to risk it happening to her girls.

As far as details, she is having 4 bridemaids a junior bridesmaid, and a MOH. Color-wise, we're looking at chocolate brown, which I think looks good on everyone.

For the exact reason you mentioned above, only she and I are going shopping for them. She already asked everyone if there was any style that they would ABSOLUTELY not wear, and the only answer included strapless anything (which we weren't going to subject anyone to anyway). I just hope everyone is okay with the choice.

Thanks for the tips girls!

[sherbertlemons]

Ha! My friend who got married this summer used David's for her dress. They ended up making her pretty crazy! After she bought her dress, they kept calling her about accessories, especially the matching purses. She finally gave up and flat out told them she wasn't buying one of her purses. The lady on the other end tells her (in this really rude tone) "Just please tell me you won't be THAT bride who carries her everyday purse with her on her wedding day." My friend just started hanging up on them after that.

Well, I'll vouch for Mori Lee's quality, for sure. Pictures showing my bridesmaid dresses in action are posted on my myspace. If you feel like it would be helpful to see the pictures, just let me know and I'm happy to give you the location of my myspace.

Oh! Here's a great suggestion from my friend's wedding that I wish I had known about for mine! All the bridesmaids and the bride were going to get dressed in the bridal room at the church and then after the ceremony were leaving immediately for pictures. They brought big paper bags labeled with the names of everyone in the bridal party. (The bride and groom had one, too.) We were all told to make sure everything we had brought was in our bags before we left the room for the ceremony. That way, the family members helping to transport our stuff were able to just scoop up our bags and put them in their car. Nothing was lost or left behind, and it was one less thing for the bride to stress about.

I especially wish I had heard about that one because the one little mistake my moh was not getting my makeup bag into our getaway car. We got to the hotel we were staying at that night and realized that I had none of my essentials and ended up taking a late night trip to the convience stores for stuff to get me through the night.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by sherbertlemons

Ha! My friend who got married this summer used David's for her dress. They ended up making her pretty crazy! After she bought her dress, they kept calling her about accessories, especially the matching purses. She finally gave up and flat out told them she wasn't buying one of her purses. The lady on the other end tells her (in this really rude tone) "Just please tell me you won't be THAT bride who carries her everyday purse with her on her wedding day." My friend just started hanging up on them after that.

Wow. Yeah she was a bridesmaid in her brother's wedding and her sister-in-law used David's for everyone's dresses. They picked the dresses up a week or so before the wedding, and the seamstress had taken them in too far. So they took them back to the store and had them altered again. When she picked them up for the second time, the dresses had CHALK MARKS on them from where the seamstress marked the alternations! They ended up having to get them dry cleaned 3 days before.

[aephi alum]

I got my wedding dress from David's, and I was happy with my dress - it was neither overpriced nor poorly made. I didn't get any kind of hard sell ("look at our bridesmaids' dresses, our veils, our handbags, our shoes, etc"). But this is going back 10 years. I made my own veil, got dyeable shoes (which of course were left white), got a beaded white evening bag somewhere, and picked out my bridesmaids' dresses and shoes from Chadwick's.

To tie this post back into the topic at hand, my MOH set up the appointment at David's and helped me pick a dress.