Drop-dead gorgeous maternity dress for glam beach wedding?

[franch]

Going to a US beach wedding full of beautiful people in July when I'll be 33 weeks pg ... I'm plotting to outshine everyone including the bride Anyone up for helping me with the challenge??!

howsaboutthis Or is it too flowery?!

Mmm, yes probably!

(Looks nice on the model but she doesn't exactly look ready to drop, does she? )

what about this fringe dress? or this although it's a bit Morticia isn't it? or some nice stuff on this page or some nice stuff here too blimey, there's a good choice isn't there (moved on since I was pregnant with ds, when everything maternity was floral, all dd's maternity stuff came from a kind mumsnetter)

try formes or isabelle oliver or if feeling flush DVF!!

this looks nice too if you've good arms

This is gorgeous -- go to bottom there are 2 fab dresses...

www.formes.com/uk/themes.asp?TheID=83&pos=0#Loc0. The grey is nice if you think white might be a bit in appropriate for the bride - i would wear it as 33 week pg in sun shouldmean you can waer what you want!

www to my aid again! Some new sites to me there, www and MM - many thanks. Morticia dress is nice and glam ... maybe not very beachy tho come to think of it. Might go for the bjornandme one, that's nice. Fab selection - thank you!!

ooh ooh ooh, the Formes ones are LOVELY too!

or this -- might be a bit evening-y but could look drop dead glam with ott jewelry

first link so not sure it will work!
long strapless dress

~OK just seen it is beach totally wrong will try again!

Warning: American weddings can be very very casual. At least Canadian weddings often are - I've been to one where people were wearing shorts and t-shirts! And a beach wedding might involve almost everyone being dressed very casually.

(I have a couple of very nice dressy dresses from my last pregnancy I'd like to get rid of, including a clingly long beautiful red dress with jacket, but I'm a size 16/18, which you probably aren't?)

LOVE the strapless - wonder if I could get away with it ... not a strapless girl usually ....

course you will get away with strapless dress... even if you have larger than normal arms (and I am sure you have not) your arms will still look slimm compared to your pregnant stomach... got this from trinny and suzannas book so it must be right!!

btw if you have not looked at the latest trinny and suzana book there is a very good section on dressing for various occaissions when you are pregnant -- it is very good - made me cringe when I think of the things I was wearing... it is worht a look as there are some good ideas for a summer wedding

just had one of those " god foot in it moments" I don't wear strapless cos got fat arms and so assumed that might be why you did not want to... might just be you don't like them!! SORRY - no offence intended!!

Thanks for the T&S tip MM! Will check about casual-ness, NQC - thanks for the warning - I'm hoping not as this will be quite showbizzy and I'm determined to show off regardless - as MM says, the bump gives me every excuse Thanks also for the dress offer - not the right size, shame - but thanks for the thought.

Oh MM, no offence taken!!! Actually I never wear strapless because I usually have nothing to hold it up - this may have changed by 33 weeks if last time is anything to go by

Hey, I could wear this if I'm feeling daring and it's relatively casual! (They SAY you can wear it as a dress!) I love the Isabella Oliver site btw - great tip - have ordered a catalogue

thanks! That dress would look fab in white if you had tan... and you could also waer it over flared trousers (very S+T)... looks great ...

Which part of America is the wedding in? Are they city people? I'm sure the casualness depends on the sort of people - the Canadian wedding I went to was in a suburban garden. At least the bride and groom and so on were formally dressed, so we didn't feel totally out of place ... but there was more than one person in really casual clothes. DH (who's thoroughly English) was horrified.

NQC - it's on the east coast. The bride and groom live in London, although the bride's American. The guests will be from all over.

franch where are you based? there is a fab maternity shop in kew where i bought a gorgeous little strappy dress which came with a matching wrap...i'd lend it to you, but all our stuff is in storage at the moment...anyway, this shop was full of stuff like that...

here is a list of maternity shops including the one in kew.

Oh, it'll probably be fairly formal then. I'd double-check with the bride. "Beach wedding" just sounds like cut-offs and flip-flops to me, but I'm sure they can be very glamorous. And any UK guests will be relatively formally dressed, as that's what UK folks do for weddings.