Bridesmaids: Choosing Dresses They'll Love

   Of course the wedding is your day to shine, but you want your bridesmaids to look beautiful too! These tips will make theirs a positive fashion experience. Don't attempt to dress your maids in some puffy-sleeved, kelly green, satin-and-lace confection that makes them look pallid, plump, and sexless. Try to remember that these are your best friends and since they are most likely paying for them, it would be great if they could wear their outfits again

.God Allful Bridesmaids

1. Try to find a style and color that is flattering to the different sizes and skin tones of your bridesmaids.
2. Try to keep the price at something that everyone can afford. $200 is a good figure to keep in mind, but if you can do it for less, everyone will be happier.
3. Consider choosing several styles from the same company that are similar in style and let your bridesmaids chose which one they would be more comfortable in.
4. Consider dress length: Formal and semiformal weddings call for long, ballerina-length, or tea-length dresses. At an informal or daytime wedding, bridesmaid dresses can be the same length as the brides dress, short or long.
5. Consider body types--if one maid is voluptuous, another's rail-thin and yet another is tiny and boyish, you can't wedge them all into skin-tight or cleavage-revealing. Simple, elegant designs are the most flattering to all figures.
6. Don't put everyone in chartuse green. Perhaps you have your wedding colors in mind, but are these really colors you would ask your friends to wrap themselves in? Be careful about colors that rarely occur in nature, or only on football teams.
7. Do remember your friends aren't filthy rich. They don't buy dresses that look terrible on them and toss them out after one occasion, just for laughs. Think about dresses they could REALLY wear again.

                           Above all, you want your friends to like you before,

                                         during, and after the ceremony.