Ugly bridesmaid dresses

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3) this will be in your pictures; & 4) the way your BMs look is a reflection of you as the bride. Apparently I was the only one who didn't like the dresses. All the other women involved including MOB and MIL liked them too. Either they actually liked them or they were pretending in order to spare her feelings. Everybody I showed it to did not exactly have kind words about it. Lol But the main thing is she's my friend and I only had to wear it just one day. So...do any of you have any ugly BM dress stories? Please share!

Nope. I've never been a bridesmaid. If I were I would shut up and wear whatever the bride wanted me to wear (if it's in my given budget)

@Katherine I keep trying to load a picture but I keep getting error messages. I'm ony phone. I'm not home or near a computer. Otherwise I would gladly show a picture. Lol

Try to go on weddingwire.com on your browser, not the app, that normally let's you upload a picture from your phone.

I've never been a BM, so I don't have ugly dress stories to share.

Its Kathryn, see above^.

For my sisters almost-wedding (she canceled it 4 months in advance). It was poop brown. Everyone kept commenting how we could wear them over and over. But As i stood there in my poop brown dress. I said umm no,, eww brown is not for me. But I was readty and will to wear it. I even dropped $200 on it. That I lost because there was no wedding and no return policy. :o(

I fully agree... why put BMs in dresses that don't look good? I want my friends looking as fabulous as possible. If people are really concerned with being upstaged, don't have a bridal party IMO.

I have never been a BM so I don't have any personal stories. But a friend of mine was a BM in a Disney themed wedding and the dresses were all different colours (yellow-Belle, blue- cinderella etc.) but the dresses had the poofy sleeves and were a little ridiculous looking. I suppose to each her own lol.

Suck it up. It's one day. I've been in several weddings and didn't love my dress in any of them. I did however love the person I was standing up with and didn't care if that shade of blue wasn't anything I would normally wear.

I'm not picking out attendant outfits. People can wear whatever the heck they want.

Honestly I don't see this going well. Most brides love their BM dresses so it could easily cause some hurt feelings if you start posting pictures of BM dresses that you hate. While you may find it hideous another bride could love it and be hurt that people think it's a terrible dress. Most wouldn't start an ugly wedding dress thread for the same reason.

This is part of why I am letting my BMs pick their own dress as long as it is with a range of colors I give them and it's knee length. I want everyone to feel pretty and comfortable. No one dress can do that for everyone.

I can talk about my brother's ex-wifes choice cause shes the ex. I personally wasn't a bridesmaid, but her dresses were horrible. They were cotton candy pink. They had sweetheart necklines, tulle skirts with pickups. And all of her bridesmaids were on the larger size so they just looked ridiculous. I'm not downing anyone for being plus sized. I'm just saying she could have picked a much more flattering dress for her girls taking that into account.

Out of four wedding there was only one I didn't like. I didn't like the color or think it fit her theme/feel of her wedding. Not my choice though and I didn't say anything. That was the only one I was in where the bride went and picked them out and then told us we had to go in and get sized and pay for them. What kills me is every bride tries to say "I wanted to pick something you can wear again." Let's be real, most of the time you can't. At least I appreciate spending $150 on a dress I'll wear once but feel amazing and beautiful in and have awesome pictures after. After all my experiences, it is what made me choose to let all my BM's pick their dresses. I just picked the color and length. They all ended up picking different dresses and I think its going to look pretty cool.

Just to clear things up I started this thread not to insult anyone, but because I thought it would be funny. Yes I did suck it up for my friend. As much as i detested that dress i only had to wear it for only a few hours. Me and a few other friends of ours just thought her choice was off considering her own taste in clothes. She always dresses very trendy and these came from an old lady catalog.

I was actually surprised that 3 of the girls actually have plans to reuse their dresses within a few months of the wedding. One just found out that her DH's family is doing a black tie holiday party and 2 will use them for a formal night on a cruise in a few months.

OMG - VMD, I really wish you were my flower girl...in that dress...today...

I was a BM for a wedding, i didn't mind my dress, except it was this olive green color that totally didn't look good on my skin color. But I didn't say a word, I wore it with a smile on my face.

But being a BM was def. top 10 worst experience for me in my life. Mostly bc the other BMs were horrible to me.

One of my BM text me yesterday and said she loves her dress so much she is bleaching it and wearing it to her wedding, she was obviously kidding but it made me feel good that she loves it!

I was a BM while in high school and reused my dress for junior prom. I didn't plan on going but my friend decided only the day before that she wanted to go but didn't want yo go alone, so I pulled out the dress and shoes instead of going out shopping last minute. It worked! Lol The shoes are just navy blue pumps and can be worn with almost anything so I wore them until they wore out. This was in 2001.

None of the three bridesmaid dresses I have worn were ugly. Maybe not my style, but not hideous. I don't mind wearing whatever the bride wants but please please please, STOP telling me I can wear it again or if its long, cut it off and wear it again. Its perfectly ok with me if the dress only gets worn once by me. I'll resell it, donate it, lend it out, bury it in my closet or trash the darn thing.

One of my BMs made a good point when she said a lot of BMs most likely find the dresses to be ugly mainly because we most likely didn't choose them ourselves. True. But then we agreed that some are just downright hideous. I knew mine liked theres. Me and my 4 BMs went shopping together because I wanted them to all look good and feel good in what they wore. I was going to choose the color and let them pick their own style but when 2 picked the same one the others decided on it as well. One said if at least half of them liked the same one then they might as well all have it. Plus if they're paying for it then I definitely wanted them to like it.