Help me dress for an important wedding please

[BlueBumedFly]

Here are my challenges;

• Italian wedding with lots of gorgeous women/clothes
• I am doing a reading
• I have my 3 year old toddler with me
• have recently shrunk down from size 16 to about a '13' if there was one
• not too flush for cash

I was thinking red maybe, sleeves to some extent (church and arm coverers!) was thinking top and trousers, had elegant tunic type top with well tailored fitted cream trousers - already have lots of lovely shoes in many colours.

Help!! not so keen on dresses for a multitude if reasons. Also with 200 people at the wedding don't want to risk clashing with a high street number. It's august in the uk so chance of rain! As there are 30 kids at the wedding I will be needed to play too!

Any ideas for online boutique type places??

Is not wearing a dress a confidence thing?

I am sure plenty will disagree with me, but tunic and trousers doesn't seem 'dressy' enough. If you really don't want a dress, I will keep looking, but am going to lik to one anyway

Here

Here- could be worn with trousers?

That is lovely, dress thing is down to pudgy thighs (not comfy) and a bit of a c-section tum to hide!

I'm wearing this to a wedding next week, after someone linked to it on another thread.

I know you said you'd rather not wear a dress, but the fabric is lovely and the cut is very forgiving and comfy. You could get a wrap or a cardi to cover your arms in the church.

Good luck!

Well I'm sorry but that's simply not good enough

You are a size 13- you have made all that effort to slim down; you don't need to dress to hide yourself! A dress will be far more flattering, I promise. If you're worried about tummy and thigh rubbage, get something like this to wear underneath, and small heels you can still run after a toddler with to slim the silhouette.

Which dress did you like? I will look for more...

How tall are you?

What about a maxi dress...? I love that 'covered up' feeling but they can still look dressy.

Inspired by tethersend's Jaeger link, what about this one?It's coral rather than red but such a beautiful dress (only reason I've not bought it myself is that coral is hideously unflattering on me)

I love that dress too- am trying to persuade anyone who will listen to buy it; I also cannot wear it as I am too ginger.

Hee hee - I 5ft 2", maybe too short for a maxi dress although I do like the sound of them!! What sort of cardigan jacket can you wear with a maxi dress?

Tethers - the first one was more me

Thanks - loving this personal shopping approach still thinking the maxi might be good?

Nimin - nice sigh, I am going to have to try this whole dress approach aren't I?

Pickle - that is lovely... what are you wearing with it? Like the hide everything front!

Would you do blue? This is nice and wouldn't need a jacket...

Ooooooo loving this, (I know its not red) - not dressy enough?

"nice www.allsaints.com/product/?vintage=1&page=1&price_id=&category_id=&sub_category_id=22&&prod_desc_id= 5051214417868&position=0"

Ahhh can never do those, hey ho, the link it there - what do you wear with that though?

Wow tether, that is gorgeous.. OK, you have won me over with the whole dress thing... I really like that. Blue is cool too. I only said red as I have a rather fetching pair of red shoes

This is also nice

That all saints one you linked to is waaay to casual, BlueBumedFly...

OK, really liking the maxi approach, think its more me. What length jacket/cardigan do you wear?

Not sure if you have the budget, but this is gorgeous.

It's very nice on - I'm not a dress person at all usually, and I feel quite comfortable in it, which I think is half the battle. I'm wearing it with black accessories/silver jewellery.

Love the blue maxi dress tethersend! Maybe I should wear dresses more often...

I don't know if it's already been linked to on here (sorry, haven't clicked on any of the links), but I wore this IO dress to my sister's wedding when DD2 was just a few weeks old. I had so many comments about how amazing I was looking and how much weight I had lost! It is a seriously flattering dress.

It was actually the long sleeve version in blue I wore, but this short sleeve pink one is available in your size for a little under 50 quid. I think it's a bargain.

Ok, maxi is good!

I wouldn't wear a jacket with that one, but in principle, I would wear a short bolero style jacket; something like this

Bugger me, the IO dress in pink is now only £26, I just bought one for me!!

Short but not sure how tall you are

elegant

arm and tummy kind

maxi and £££ but oh so pretty

nice maxi and not too £££

Any of these - also like Tethers' viv one.

Tracey - liking the last one lots, thank you for posting, never thought I would get so excited about dresses!!

Rinder - I actually have 3 weddings within 6 weeks so am going to buy one of those too!

Glad I came

Embrace the dress

tracey, that kimono maxi is gorgeous. I may have to sell a kidney.

Kidneys are very over-rated tethers

Blue - yeay to getting some lovely dresses.