Have you ever had to wear a bridesmaids dress you hated?

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If so did you feel like crap all day or did you not give a shit after a while?

It's a big puffy sleeved high neck number and is so not me.

I don’t know anyone whose actually liked their bridesmaid dress - I think it’s inevitable as an adult when you’re being told what to wear by someone else & then having to wear the same dress / hair / make up as all the other bridesmaids! Any other event it would be a major faux pas wearing the same thing as someone else.

However I’ve always worked off the basis that everyone else knows you’ve not chosen the dress yourself so people aren’t judging you! Wear it with a smile and enjoy the day. My SIL clearly hated her bridesmaids dress at my wedding (still no idea why as I loved it and would have worn it myself) & had a face like thunder all day. Her attitude is what all my friends remember not the dress she was wearing.

Also it’s sooo obvious when a bride has deliberately chosen an unflattering dress & it always makes me think less of them

I agree. I let my bridesmaid choose her dress. Colour and all. I wanted her to look familiar and feel it.

Yes been bridesmaid twice

Friends dress I still have

Sisters pink and hideous dress she made me pay for was donated to a good cause as fast as possible

I was about 8 and didn't like the dresses my DS and I had to wear at the time but now I think they were lovely! I think I had the idea that my dress would be floor length and like something a Disney princess would wear so was disappointed.

Yep 1989, I was 18 and I was bridesmaid to my sister. Awful dress, shiny, pink, big puffy thing. I changed out of it as soon as I could, and flew to Australia the next day for six months.

Yes! They were designed by the bride (who is not a fashion designer by any stretch) and made by their family friend. Who was a seamstress, to be fair, but maybe shouldn’t have been……

All 7 were awful. We all looked ridiculous. But we sucked it up, smiled, thanked her graciously and then have just lolled about it privately ever since.

Side note- was actually a great wedding!

I've never been a bridesmaid... 🙄

Yep. A puffy blue nightmare that did nothing for me at all but once I was pissed I didn't care

Yes a special purple number with eyeshadow, handbag and shoes to match.
I looked like a purple Quality Street in a slightly lighter shade.

HOWEVER the bride insisted on paying for everything, including hair and makeup, she was happy and it was a lovely day - so can't complain.

Yes twice. One of the many reasons why I didn't have any bridesmaids or tell people what to wear at my wedding!

Yes. It’s just part and parcel of the poisoned chalice that is being a bridesmaid!

Yep, baby pink with very severe square neckline and Juliet sleeves. I'm ginger, pale and broad of shoulder, so I just looked horrendous in it. The puffy bit of the sleeves was massive so it made even the very slender bridesmaids look a bit hench.

I just cracked on though, not my day and I'm not really arsed, but I wish she'd chosen something more universally flattering. If nothing else her bridal party looked like an olympic swimming team in drag in the photos, which I can't imagine is what she was going for.

Was a bridesmaid for DSis, picked my dress and shoes have worn them both loads of times since.

When I got married I asked my bridesmaids to pick dresses and shoes they would wear again.

Seems wasteful to buy a dress you'll only wear once Ignoring the irony of actual wedding dresses

I wasn't a fan of the one I had for my cousin's wedding.
By I was inside it, not outside it, so I didn't have to look at me and I had a great day.

Thankfully my brides have been kind. I've been bridesmaid 5 times and whilst they chose the dress, they did take into consideration our shapes. We were allowed to choose our own hair and make up.

Yes, circa 1995. The dress was pretty if you like a meringue, but sort of pale lilac, and I am very white so I looked like a corpse in it. Until we all got sprayed orange, then I just looked like an Oompa Loompa.

I just embraced it really - I was very young and it was my first bridesmaid gig.

Haven't we all?

I genuinely assumed that was what being a bridesmaid was about. But my experiences were 1970s and 80s probably.

Yes twice, one with that was a nice blue colour but had such a voluminous skirt that we looked like those dolls that hide loo rolls.
And one where we had boxy black strapless dresses that zipped up the front. Which looked really nice on the other bridesmaid, but I am pale and boney and I looked a bit like I was dead and half out of a body bag. Especially in the photos with flash at the reception.

Both not great looks but it didn't matter, nobody really cares what yiu look like at someone elses wedding. And I'd rather look shit in a dress I did not choose than one that everyone thought I did.

Maid of Honour, full length fitted pink nylon with long sleeves, in July. Horrible.

I didn't care, though. My sister was the bride, just 17 years old. I'd have worn a bin liner if she'd wanted me to, I loved her.

I didn't love the one my dear friend picked- not my colour and not a particularly flattering cut but it was very 'her' and not awful so I just got on with it, did my best with hair and makeup and enjoyed the day. I

That is the loveliest response ever ❤️

I have a face that needs no subtitles, you can read how I feel or think just by looking at my face.

my family member asked me to be a bridesmaid and my mum politely reminded me to watch my face and just agree with the dress she chose, bearing in mind this was the early 90s so we went dress shopping and she choose a satin ballerina floral pink and blue dress, I tried it on hated it and she knew from my face I hated it,(I couldn’t hide it) she then picked it in silver and lilac which was slightly better colour wise so we went for that.

hated it and I couldn’t wait to get it off after the evening guests arrived.

I did and I was 18 and had super short hair that the hair dresser tried to back comb into some sort of puffy thing. The dress was very 80s even though it was 2005. It was fine. Genuinely, people weren't bothered by us and I changed for the party.

Not me, but a friend showed me a green monstrosity with a square neckline that she had to wear. The bride was a close friend so she didn’t fuss…and the wedding was a big piss up apparently so she soon forgot about it!

It's a floaty edwardian mistress type thing. Makes me look like a ghoul