Help glomming up dress for Asian wedding

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Can anyone help me glam up a fairly staid navy blue lace maxi dress for an Asian wedding this weekend? (This is the best pic I can find of it).

Normally I'd wear Asian clothes but the late notification of this wedding has made this impossible - I'm tall so need stuff specially tailoring. However I'm now feeling that I'm going to be incredibly dowdy compared to everyone else.

The dress is non-negotiable. It's the only thing I have that's floor length, high necked and with at least some pretence at sleeves. I have some nice silver and navy sandals, a tonne of silver bangles, a silver clutch - which, err, all sounds like a lot of navy and silver. I don't think a necklace would work with the dress (or would it?) but some sort of scarf would be good. Or maybe a jacket, cardy or other type of wrap??

Basically it won't be possible to be too glitzy or bright. I'm a size 10 and have access to a few shops but am a fair way from a decent shopping centre plus have DC who don't enjoying shopping unless it's Toys'r'us. So, anywhere that offers next day delivery would be great. Budget flexible.

Sorry for the essay but ideas welcome!

Glomming?? FFS - obviously I meant glamming! Sodding autocorrect. Is glomming even a word???

I personally would go for a wrap rather than a jacket or cardi. I'm not sure a necklace would work unless it was long and dangly. The bangles and cluth sound fab, navy and silver is always nice. How about going for a really glam hairdo to pull it together? Could you get to a hairdressers and have them put it up for you and use some sort of hair clip/accessory to really glam it up?

How about a silver shawl ?

What about a jewellery cape/collar thing? like this gold one? not sure how it would be on the dress - either amazing or awful probably!

Maybe add some flashes of pink? This kimono wrap is nice here

Or a pink scarf with a pink corsage style flower to go in your hair?

Ooh, ideas, thank you. I shall have a proper look this evening when dc are in bed but I do like the idea of a silver wrap. Sadly no time for hairdresser before the wedding but I do have some fairly ornate hairpieces so might be able to use one of them.

Thankfully (at least from the point of view of my smallest DC) we won't have to sit through the Walima, or wedding ceremony, itself, but it will be a long night of eating and, I think, dancing so I do want to be as comfortable as possible. However will definitely ensure I don't show too much flesh. My dress covers my shoulders and 3 inches or so of upper arm and as my own wedding dress (Asian dress) had similar arm coverage, that should be ok. Even so, the modesty angle is why I was vaguely wondering about a jacket/cardy. Hmmm.

If it were me, I'd definitely focus on doing something big and glam with my hair. The dress is lovely in it's self so I think big, glam hair would be a good look with it, especially if you have some ornate hairpieces you could try looking on youtube for tutorials for hair styles you could try if you have time to have a play around before the wedding?

Based on my (albeit limited) experience of Asian weddings, I think you need big hair and plenty of delicate bling. You could go with gold accessories, but I'd choose silver with that dress.

Not knowing your tastes, I've put lots of links below. I'd suggest choosing a statement clutch, a long necklace, a cuff/some bangles, a cocktail ring, and jewelled sandals. Alternatively, you could swap the long necklace for a more sedate collar necklace and the glittery waist belt I've linked further down.

Perhaps:

retro chandelier necklace;
retro collar necklace;
collar style necklace;
long gold chain necklace;
ornate tassel necklace;
even more ornate tassel necklace;
silver bangles;
ornate, large stone bracelet;
huge silver chain bracelet;
gold bangles;
gorgeous gold and silver deco cuff.

Statement clutch bag;
gold blingy clutch bag;
silver blingy clutch bag;
blingy vintage style waist belt;
silver stripe organza shawl;
crystal sandals;
vintage style ring;
bigger vintage style ring;
faceted black stone ring;
huge blue stone ring.

Hope some of that helps - have a great time!

PS - IMO, one of the long/tassel style necklaces would look great with the dress but I'm not sure about a shorter collar-style necklace, it would depend on the length.

What about a metallic belt? Think some colour would also jazz it up (if not accessories some hot pink lippy/nails?). Guests tend to wear bright embellished outfits with lots of blingy jewellery.

More is more at Asian weddings (we don't do understated/minimalist wedding wear) so definitely big/ornate hair/jewellery and full face of makeup!

I agree with MooMin - hot pink lipstick and nails would look fantastic :).

Yes, will definitely have nails done - cerise, probably - and wear bright lipstick.

Like the idea of a glittery waist belt and very tempted to try the one in Nom's link. Would also like a cocktail ring. I've been stalking one on NAP for ages but perhaps a cheaper version would suffice!

A long tassel necklace instead of a belt is also an idea. I do have one already but it's a sort of dull gold colour and wouldn't work. I also have a very long string of pearls that I'd wondered about but am not sure they're quite the thing and, anyway, I usually keep them for child-free events as they're so enticing for small hands to tug!

Anyway, plenty to think about so thank you everyone.