Any shade bridal party

I’ve seen people do it and it can look good, but I’d suggest giving polite guidelines or at least ask that they show you first before buying. There was a bride on here who’s MOH impulsively bought something she liked herself without asking or showing it to the bride, and now the bride is on the fence about whether she should speak out because it’s not appropriate for her venue or theme.


It’s possible to pull off though, so congratulations and happy planning!

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Yea that's a really good point about giving guidelines. The folks I'm planning to ask would absolutely never do that lol. Except perhaps one of them that sometimes has alternative taste, but the rest are super traditional regarding weddings. I figured I'd kind of do that just in case anyway xD but the nice thing is that even if they don't have a dress that fits the guidelines, the freedom of appropriate style and choosing from a color spectrum means they can even thrift a dress and hopefully it wouldn't be much investment.

I've been in wedding parties like that. Purple was super hard to find and grey was fine but most of the options were BM dresses we still had to buy. If you're main concern is not making people buy dresses i'd go with black or navy that most people would have one of (or can EASILY find at regular stores) and if you had another color vision in mind, you can bring that in with florals and decorations!

Should add that the "mismatch" color family looked great in both cases! Grays were all over the place from charcoal to silver and purple ranged from lavender to almost magenta. It looked great!

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Yep that was the plan ^.^ I was going to say black or blues. I know most of the wedding party should already have those or at least did at one point. The downside is we could wind up with all black and one blue which might look weird, so we might have to just pick either or. All black doesn't seem to photograph real well from pictures I've looked at online, but I think it depends on background and stuff too. So I would just have to take that into consideration. Although then if everyone wore all black, I could go with blue and white flowers in the bouquets and boutonnieres I'm making so it would help with the color. That maybe could be the way to go! Also, my fiance really wants to let the guys wear bluejeans. I'm not crazy about that idea considering the venue options we have. I think it would be cool for a barn wedding, but maybe not at some of the other places, but I have to consider his feelings on it too. It would give a blue color I guess if they all wore black shirts it would kind of dress it up a bit. But then we would have to sey hey, no stains or rips, ect. And knowing the guys, that probably would eliminate all the jeans in their closets lol. So black dress pants might be easier for them too.

Thanks so much for the feedback!

I've only seen it done in photos and I personally thought it looked horrible. There was no organization or anything to it.

Would you prefer cocktail length or floor length or don’t mind the length? Solid color or can the dresses have patterns? These could be some guidelines to give your bridesmaids. Good luck!!

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Good thoughts ^.^ I planned on saying solid color and cocktail length or long. I imagine that cocktail is what most of my friends have in their closets as that's their typical style. Also I have a man of honor instead of a maid of honor, so there's going to be a bit of photographical unbalance anyway.

Thank you!

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I've been trying to find some photos online and having a hard time finding any D:

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Can you try searching monochrome bridal parties or monochrome weddings? Another option is searching family portraits. They often use a few colors to coordinate a group. I think navy solid colored dress may be easy to find if not suggesting black. There may be too many blue variations from sky to teal. I don't like matching dresses on adults so I like your idea. Midi dresses are very popular right now as well.

Yes I have a shade of color its grey and yellow kept the color because I was supposed to have gotten married in June but with the circumstances. When covid situation hit all of us it put that month out where moving it a few months back gave us room to bounce back some so now October which is the month. But they had different styles dresses which I love and fits them and personality

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Thanks for the input!!

Thanks everyone for the input! I'm still learning the Wedding Wire's forum system so I'm having trouble telling which comments I already responded to. So just wanted to say thanks ^.^ My fiancé and I are going to take the feedback and talk it over.

That's what we are doing. We gave the bridal party a photo of a random flower bouquet that had our colors. Told them to just find a dress in a similar color or shade. Just keep it the same material texture.

I am doing this with shades of blue for my wedding coming in September.

I have seen the dresses in photos picked out by my bridesmaids and I have loved each one.

I told them to stay within a shade or two of cerulean but pick whatever design they want and to be comfortable. Also, to stay classy and not show off too much of their assets. LOL, which was complied with.

I love this idea and would love to see more of this idea at weddings.

View Quoted Comment Thanks for the input and congrats ^.^

I’d stick with all one length if you’re going to have the bridesmaids in various shades of a color. Groomsmen might be easier to have them in one color like the navy or black that you mentioned so that. I think if you have both bridesmaids and groomsmen in various colors/hues, you’ll find it’s really hard to pair them up for ceremony and bridal group photos.

Hi, the groomsmen are renting and they are going together. However, the bridesmaids are different heights and sizes, in weight and bust. So I gave them a color, shade to stay in line with and floor length and shoe color. But for pictures you want your bridesmaids to look good and if they can find a dress they feel comfortable in that's great. What looks good doesn't look the same on the next. I also do not care about the different shades, that's what makes it unique. Life isn't perfect and our wedding is all shades of purple and ivory and my dress is ivory with champagne and blush undertones. So the wedding will be perfectly imperfect and I love it. It's great you have that idea, it takes stress of something to check off the list you don't have to worry about.