Coordinating Your Wedding Dress With Your Bridesmaids

It is essential when you are shopping for your bridesmaids' dresses that you consider the formality, theme and style of wedding you are hoping to create. In doing so they will work in harmony with your bridal gown and the other members in the bridal party which will produce some stunningly beautiful memories and wedding photographs.

Are you having a large stately home wedding or an intimate marriage affair? Immediately both venues create differing visions of what sort of wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses would be more fitting. A more formal celebration would suit your bridesmaids in evening dresses made of duchess satin with intricate beading and matching wraps, with the bride in a full skirted fairytale wedding gown with a large train and complementing crown style tiara and veil. A more low key ceremony such as a registry office or a wedding on a beach may suit a more lightweight A line gown with a puddle train and an alice band style tiara. Your bridesmaids would work well in cocktail type dresses with strappy sandals. The men in the party would need to dress according to the formality too. Matching morning suits with colour co-ordinating accessories would be more fitting at a grand wedding whereas semi-casual would be appropriate for a beach wedding.

Your chosen theme will play an influential part on the dresses you select. A wedding in the winter months with a Narnia theme would determine the colours and styles you choose. With you dressed as the snow queen, your bridesmaids would look fabulous in ice blue or silver dresses with complimenting sashes, twinkling hairpieces and fur wraps. A wedding in the Spring would equally look beautiful with the bridesmaids in pastel shades of green, yellow or pink.

Often the bride will choose to incorporate some similar qualities from their own wedding dress into her bridesmaid dresses. This could be having the dresses in the same fabric, having the same neckline or a coordinating sash. Or perhaps you will all have sleeves or straps. If your wedding dress is very detailed then opt for simple sleek dresses for your bridesmaids so the final look is not too fussy. Their dresses and your own should balance well. Either way you should see what styles and colours suit your bridesmaids and take their opinion into consideration. You want them to be happy and comfortable with their chosen bridesmaid dress.