Any ideas on what I could wear for DD's Christening?

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I'm dieting back to my pre-baby shape. I'm 35, never very slim but 5'9 and a size 14. I'm fair with long blonde hair and have just noticed that I sound fairly attractive in my description but I'm actually not .

DD's Christening is in a few months (waiting for date from Priest) and I really want to look good, as we got married 2 years ago and it was dreadful and I looked like shit. My family treated me very badly in the lead up to it, to the extent that I just shut down and dont know how I got through my wedding day. I ordered an ugly, boring wedding dress online, tried it on once and then just threw it on on the day. I couldnt be bothered with any of it and have no happy memories of the day at all. I physically shudder just thinking about it.

So! I want to get this right. I only have a budget of about £100 but I would like to look stylish, together and I don't know, like a confident woman I suppose!

Sorry for wittering, hope someone can give me an idea of where to start. I have no clue what type of thing is appropriate

For my DS' (RC) christening I wore a reasonably modest dress from Fenn Wright Manson in a funky print (cap sleeves, fairly high necked, to the knee), black tights and skyscraper heels. The dress was about £100 I think.

This general shape here but it had a less fitted waist.

If you've got a few months you might want to wait for the autumn collections to come out as the dresses are more substantial - I bought mine at the end of August for a mid September date.

I going to a christening at the weekend and will be wearing this jigsaw dress

Any good?

Meant to add sorry that your wedding was so and I'm sure this event will be much better!!

Blue?

Green?

over budget but gorgeous?

purple?

Lace?

Pink/orange?

Maxi?

Orange maxi?

Sorry that I posted and then split. They are all lovely, thanks for the suggestions. I like the idea of a funky dress, black tights and huuuuge heels but as I'm fairly tall anyway I feel a bit self conscious in big heels. Even though I absolutely love them. Maybe I should just wear them anyway and embrace it!

I really like the green Laura Ashely dress as it's quite subdued - would a little cardi and big heels look ok with the green one do you think? Or is that a bit old-womany?