I am having a Spring wedding next year. The wedding will be all outdoors, with a ceremony surrounded by pine trees and the reception either in a reception barn or in an adjacent field. The theme is woodland elegance. The thing is, I fell in love with a wedding dress that was much more formal than I intended. I had been looking at lace dresses with chapel-length trains. But I ended up falling in love with this Sottero and Midgley dress, which has a semi-cathedral train and thicker fabric covered in tiny beading.
https://www.maggiesottero.com/sottero-and-midgley/thomas-marie/18430
The wedding is on a working farm with minimal facilities. The reception will be either outside or in the reception barn, dinner will be a buffet, the bar is wine and beer only, and bathrooms will be port a potties.
https://www.thistledownfarmnc.com/old-gallery
I would love to have a formal dress code to make me feel better about the formality of the dress, but it just doesn't make sense with our venue. So we're planning to have the dress code be cocktail. My fiance and his groomsmen will wear suits. My bridesmaids will wear satin floor length dresses.
I love the way I look and feel in the dress, but I can't stop worrying that the dress is too formal. I love the train as the pattern on it is so unique and has so much detailing. But one option to make the dress less formal would be to shorten the train. I've also considered buying a reception dress. I'm just so worried that people will think my dress is too formal and that it won't go with the setting in the photos. Please let me know what you think.
