Hi everyone!
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by bridesmaid dresses. This is long, and I'm so sorry!
Any advice or input is greatly suggested, especially from those who have been a bridesmaid in the past! I've only been in one wedding and we all wore the same style and same color from David's Bridal, so I'm not sure how much of a headache this would end up being for my girls.
Background:
Originally I was going to give my girls a color (dusty blue) and let them pick any dress they wanted as long as it was midi or longer. I wanted a true mismatched look, something like this, but in a light blue:
1) Dusty blue is weirdly difficult to find (on a website not specifically for bridesmaid dresses, like Lulu's or Baltic Born or similar) for how popular of a color it is. Maybe that's my current timing, but still.
2) The plan was to have them send me a picture of their dress before they purchased or kept so it fit the right sort of style/vibe. This likely wouldn't be an issue, but I don't want any comments I make about the dress they pick to come across as picky or annoying.
So then I was going to find one website (Azazie, Birdy Grey, Revelry, David's Bridal, etc) and find a few different shades of blue to have the girls pick from for something almost exactly like the picture below (from Revelry). The problem I ran into was not liking more than two colors from any one website once I got all the swatches in.
Other notes: Revelry styles and fabrics are my favorite, but the dresses are $185 each and not all of my BMs can afford to drop that on a dress they'll wear once; the Birdy Grey colors are my favorite, but I feel like the styles are super limited compared to other options (but their maternity selection is better than Azazie in terms of style in my opinion and I'll most likely have an expected BM); the Azazie price point is my favorite and I love that they have jumpsuit, midi, and tea length options but I only liked two colors from them.
Decision:
I think I've settled on a solution and I just wanted to know if you all think this is ridiculous?
I put all of the dusty blue swatches together from Revelry (French blue), Birdy Grey, and Azazie together and actually kind of love how they're almost the same but not quite (I can't find my David's Bridal dusty blue so I'm not sure how it looks with the others). I was thinking I would give my 'maids the color from each site, and let them have final say on fabric, price, and style of their dress? Does that sound insane? I ran it by my girls and they all seem to be on board with it! Ideally we'd end up with a mix of fabrics and silhouettes and it will still look mismatched but intentional.
Thoughts? Concerns? Other suggestions? What have you all done in the past when going for a mismatched look, especially when your bridesmaids have different budgets?
