Ditto about the bridesmaids dresses. A friend's daughter got married in Nov. and her bridesmaids wore beautiful cashmere sweaters and long skirts out of what looked like silk dupioni. She wanted her friends to be able to wear it more than once.
Howdy!
Looks like one of the custom window-coverings in a big house in the holiday homes tour in Ft.Worth. ..well, if the window coverings were good enough for Scarlett O'hara... .
Having recently endured wedding dress shopping with my niece let me tell you that there are very few dresses that aren't strapless. I'd guess
90% are strapless, 7% are spaghetti straps and the remaining 3% are tank style.While it was possible to order a dress with a sleeve none of the stores here had any in stock. They just looked at you like you were a crazy person. Most of the time they'd just tell you if something had a sleeve option and rarely they had a picture to show you what the dress would actually look like. I guess if you want a sleeve of any sort you just have to take what you get.
Maybe in cold climates you can get sleeves but you sure can't here.
marcella
'endured'? That is funny Marcella. I wouldn't want to wear sleeveless here this time of year and your area is pretty cool too. Are they selling now for the spring and summer season or is it just the styles I wonder.
Nice to see you here. Where have you been hid> Having recently endured wedding dress shopping with my niece let me tell
In our case, there is just no way that half the bridesmaids will be able to afford gowns. DD also feels that if she is telling people what to wear, even giving some choice on their part, it is only fair to pay for some or all of it.
Now she is dithering about shoes. I told her I thought the best thing would be to get satin ballet slippers at a dance shop, have them dyed to match either blue or gold, and then just pull out the toe stops for comfort. A lot cheaper than dyed pumps, indeed less expensive than a lot of the other options. It would not be a hardship on anybody to buy them. Plus then nobody breaks their neck on unaccustomed heels. And I could probably get DD3, who is threatening mayhem if she has to wear heels, to wear them without complaint. The other best option, IMNSHO, is to just let everybody rumpage their closets and worry about shoes themselves. Hello? Floor length hems?
I expect that the next panic will be flowers. When she realizes that changing plans from the beach and to an elizabethan garden for the ceremony is going to make a bit of a difference in what she wants to do with that.
I think if I were down there I would take her out for tequila shots and shooting pool, just to get her sedated for one night.
NightMist
The dresses for DD's wedding were dark wine-red and she told them to wear whatever black shoes they had and were comfortable. Nobody wore their black Reeboks, but I bet no one would have noticed if they had :)
Julia > In our case, there is just no way that half the bridesmaids will be
Julia in Mn said: The dresses for DD's wedding were dark wine-red and she told them to wear whatever black shoes they had and were comfortable. Nobody wore their black Reeboks, but I bet no one would have noticed if they had :)
---------------------------------------------------- At the last wedding I attended, one of the bridesmaids, at the last minute, wore black Doc Marten type boots with rainbow horizontally striped wooled tights. The dress was a formal full-length gown.
Denise
My new DIL just told her girls to buy a certain color shoe that was comfortable. They all looked just fine. DD is doing the same thing this month.
I thought it was accurate :-) It was worse than prom dress shopping and that was awful!
Back in the day I used to sew wedding dresses and ugly bridesmaids dresses for people. I've spent too much time in bridal shops with someone showing me the dress they want me to copy except for whatever changes. I don't think it matters the time of year, the dresses are nearly all strapless.
Yes, I'd freeze to death. Heck, last December we had a white tie work Christmas party to attend and I about killed myself trying to find a floor length formal that wasn't strapless or sleeveless or made for an
80 year old. Seems like there's nothing in between.marcella
So long as they weren't 10-ho;e DM's... ;)
You can get ballet shoes that don't have the hard toes.
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
NightMist wrote:
Funny you should say that! One of a friend's daughters was always a little unconventional: she vowed she was going to be comfortable throughout her wedding day. So, under her beautiful gown, she wore a pair of trainers >g< . In message , Julia in MN writes
DD has a really cute pair of white tennis shoes that she will wear at her reception. Though her wedding shoes are pretty much ballet flats, she'll still be more comfortable with the padding in the casual shoes. I'm sure her leg (formerly broken with an implanted rod) will be feeling the stress and strain of the day by the time the night is over. Aren't we a pair????
Wore my heels to church, switched to tennies (yes, regular blue tennies) for the dinner. (Our area tradition was for someone to 'steal' the brides shoe while they were eating and the groom was suppose to 'buy them back') WElllllllll to make a LONG story short, the kid that was suppose to do it,, climbed out from under it and said very loudly "SHE DOESN'T HAVE SHOES ON". It was hilarious!
He will never forget that
Butterfly (not sure what my blue tennis shoes were suppose to be)
You haven't told us how you got on/managed at your DS's wedding. Did you 'do' the decked out wheelchair - or did you struggle on crutches? I do hope you managed to have a lovely day notwithstanding all the problems.
I'm so glad your DD will have happy feet, for her wedding. Perhaps it'll catch on >g< If it does, do you think it could apply to guests as well - I wish! . In message , KJ writes
Howdy!
My new d-i-l wore her knee-high Docs to her wedding; she's gorgeous: who looked at her feet? ;-)
R/Sandy
No, I haven't have I? I barely got myself decked out, so decorating my wheelchair was out of the question. My DH has really come through all this like a real trooper! He can wash hair, help with pan baths and personal hygiene tasks. Bless him! He helped me get dressed for the events and them pushed me around to meet and greet as much as he could. We had a great time at the wedding but I hate to think how even more wonderful it would have been if I could have walked around the room to talk with friends and family. And dance with my son. But it could have been worse......it could have happened at a time when I couldn't go at all. THAT would have been tragic. I've heard back from several friends and family......they all had a wonderful time.
Now I'm feeling pretty shut in from helping DD with her plans. I can't negotiate the steps into my house with my walker and it takes several adults to get me in and out with my wheelchair. I couldn't go with her to her dress fitting last night....a friend of mine went with her to learn how to lace up her gown. :-( Though my friend is determined that all the photographer pictures of the gown dressing will only have pictures of me and not her. She's quite the friend. I doubt I'll be terribly mobile by wedding day, so all the extra touches and running around to decorate, etc., will have to take a backseat to me just getting ready for a big day. Sigh...... who knew when I complained that these two events were so close together that it would be quite like this??? Not me!
I don't have any pictures downloaded yet. I'll let you know when I have some in my Webshots album. I know I sound rather "down"....but at least I'm not in any pain to speak of. That's better than what some of our friends here in the newsgroup have to deal with. My thoughts are with you all.
I loved the purple dress with the purple cast -- how posh! (Hmpf. You'd think with the dozens of casts I've had I could ONCE have had a color other than white.)
Yes, those purples matched perfectly!
True, true.
For a wedding one would hope that a person would splurge for at least
14 hole Docs.NightMist
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