MOB and MOG dresses. Does it matter what they wear/the color?

It does not matter what parents wear, and they don't have to coordinate.

Thank god lol! I am trying to pick my battles and this was one that I seriously wanted no part of haha!

I don't think so! Mine aren't matching and won't match the colors either. Eggplant/plum is one of my colors and my mom is wearing a sangria color dress and my FMIL is wearing some sort of pant suit thing in different color. I think it looks nice in photos when they aren't matching the bridal party or matching each other!

Ive seen both, I dont think she needs to coordinate-- my mom wont.

My colors are dark purple and silver. My FMIL decided that both moms needed to wear purple and coordinate with my wedding colors. My mom was not happy about having to wear a dress but she ended up getting a long purple dress that I found for her online. I still do not know what FMILs dress will look like I just know that she wants to wear purple. I really don't care since they will not be in any of our pro photos.

I didn't give the mother's a specific color or type of dress but they told me what they were thinking and it turns out we were all on the asme wave link so that worked out.

To me, I don't care what my mom wears or the MOG wears, just as long as it is not white/ivory. I want to be the only one in that colour.

My mom is going to wear either gold or dark blue, and my FMIL showed me a silver dress that she was interested in.

They're not supposed to coordinate, just not wear white!

My MIL, however, is excited already about buying a dress for it, and sent me a pic of one the other day. She chose one of our wedding colors!!! Which I guess is not a huge deal, but now she has a good chance of matching my MOH...

I didn't think it mattered either, but my sister just got married and now I kind of disagree. My sisters colors were neutral and light green. My mom wore a light green dress with a choral cardigan. In every picture she's in, my eye is immediately drawn to her bright choral cardigan since everyone else in the pic is wearing neutral, black, or green. So that might be something to consider.

My mom is walking me down the aisle and will stand at my side during the ceremony so I wanted her to coordinate. BMs are in brown wrap dresses and she is on a brown lace dress. If it saves you a battle I really don't think it matters that much.

Actually, they are by tradition supposed to coordinate a little. The last thing you want them to do is show up in the same dress, or have colors that clash during pictures.

Traditionally the MOB buys her dress first, then will tall with the MOG so she sees the dress and can plan accordingly.

My mother and my FMIL were really stressing out about this, I kept telling them that I trusted their fashion instincts and I really just wanted them to wear whatever made them feel beautiful! The dresses they both picked out were gray/black and will look great! (bridesmaids are and groomsmen are in black so they couldnt really clash if they wanted to)

Well, my FMIL initially talked about an ivory dress…..lol. no. FH kindly told her to get a different color dress. She now decided on a lilac dress. My mom is wearing a combination of beige and black, and my BP's colors are different shades of blue.

The only reason the parents coordinate is so that the pictures look better I think. It's kind of like if you took a regular family picture you might want everybody to look like they go together. My FH chose to make it a battle with his mom because she wanted to wear this like black tie black dress to our outdoor summer wedding. He told her it looks like she was going to a funeral and that she couldn't wear it LOL. Other than that ,we don't care even though she ended up choosing a dress that shows a lot of cleavage. Whatcha gonna do? Haha

My color's are royal blue, black & white. My FMIL is wearing a royal purple & my mom is wearing a black, grey & white dress

It's totally up to you. That was one thing I wasn't concerned about. My mil wore navy and my mom wore gray. Our bridesmaids wore navy and the guys wore gray so it worked out.

I'm still shocked that Pezzy's mom and FMIL purchased the same dress by accident. That just doesn't happen, lol. He actually made a good point about photographs. It doesn't matter what they wear, but it should be reasonable. You don't want someone showing up in a sequined fuschia gown (I've seen something like this happen -- well, it wasn't a gown, but it was fuschia and it was sequined).

I didn't tell the mother's they need to wear specific colors, but once I told them my wedding colors they asked if they could wear those colors. My mom is wearing gold and my fmil is wearing a green (colors are mint and gold and my dress is ivory). At first I didn't want them to match my wedding colors but FH saw how excited they both were and suggested I give them that, so I did.

My FMIL told my mother she was going to wear a long brown dress and my mother flipped out (not to her face) that she was going to look trashy etc. I don't think a formal long brown gown would flatter anyone. Well FMIL ended up picking a nice enough silver formal dress from a little boutique. Not sure what my Mom will wear. Probably something from the formal department of Nordstroms lol

My only helpful hint is that I went to a wedding last summer and the bride has the bridesmaids in purple heavy satin dresses with a little bedazzling. Cute, but definitely for the younger generation as they were strapless and looked like a prom dress I had in high school. Well mother wore a super-similar dress and I thought it looked so inappropriate for her age. And I thought the color matching was corny since she wasn't a part of the bridal party per se.

My mom's been ill for several years. The only thing I care about is that she wears a dress she thinks looks good on her, as she's lost so much weight that it's left her really self-conscious.

We're using purple and green as our colors...purple is the favorite color of both of our moms. I doubt they'll wind up matching each other or the bridesmaids though since I'm using a very dark purple for my BM's dresses. If I were to guess, my mom would probably wear a burgundy dress, and FMIL either lilac or dark grey.