As we all know, choosing a wedding dress is one thing, but choosing bridesmaids dresses can be a whole other fiasco. There’s the cuts, the colours, the price tags, and the almighty task that is ensuring everyone looks both cohesive and comfortable on the big day.
So with that in mind, one New York bride outsourced the task, allowing her 15 (yes, fifteen) bridesmaids to pick their own dresses for her day.
Bride Annabelle Caufman Soudavar explained the decision to Vogue, saying, “I wanted everyone’s individual style to come through, and for my friends to feel beautiful and like themselves.”
The business developer also said that while the bridesmaids had guidelines, they were pretty flexible and open to interpretation.
“I had asked that they all select their own dresses with the direction that they should be pale, romantic, and floral,” she said.
And by the looks of things, what that meant to each bridesmaid was unique, but still somehow incredibly cohesive when all pulled together.
Perhaps the best aspect of the wedding, though, is how much fun the entire bridal party seemed to have on the day – no small part of which is surely due to the fact that they were comfortable and confident in what they were wearing.
We’re calling it early, but this might just be the wedding trend of 2017.
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I was a part of a wedding like this (and it was eight or nine years ago, so this isn't a new thing). I honestly hated it and wished several times that the bride would just take the reins and go "here, this is what you're wearing!" I was never going to like the dress anyway - it had to be pink and there are very few shades of pink I'll happily wear, none of which I could find - so I would have been thrilled to have the decision taken out of my hands. I would have worn any old ugly thing if it meant I didn't have to pick it out.
Oh no. You should have just let her know and maybe you could have chosen together?
I agree! Sometimes having too much choice is so unhelpful.
Plus who wants to be the person the bride looks back on in 10 years time as says "Ughh I cant believe she chose that!"
It's a bit hard to explain but she was a very strange bride. Some would describe her as bridezilla-ish, which she was with most things. For some reason though, she was weirdly disengaged with this particular part of the planning process. I suspect she over-committed with the amount of bridesmaids she chose and didn't want the hassle of finding a dress for them all. She didn't even see one of the girls' dresses until the wedding day and didn't seem particularly concerned about it either. I don't think letting her know how I felt about the whole thing would have made much difference, unfortunately.
Not even surprising. My bms chose their dress together at the shop. My sister gave her bms the colour and let them go for it 3 years ago.