Help me choose which dress please! For a wedding

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Which one, out of the two, for a wedding. It's a (not very close) friends wedding. Thanks

The first dress looks really cheap. The second is not wedding appropriate

Option 1 at a push. But stand up straight and put your shoulders back

Wow ennuie 😂

Please look at the dress cremefraiche put on - that is the sort of dress 99% of the population wear to a wedding. Can you see how your options are not quite right?

However, do you have some sort of cover you can put on dress one like a neat jacket or cardigan/throw?

To answer your question - Option 1 with a black blazer/cover up.

I agree with everyone else - neither of those are at all appropriate for a wedding. the first belongs on a beach and the second is black.

you need a rethink.

New Look is your friend for cheap and cheerful midi dresses. I've got several "occasion"dresses that do me for family meals, weddings, christenings from there. All for under £30 each. Sure they aren't designer and the material isn't the finest but for a one-off I find them perfect.

Please excuse the toilet selfie.

Sorry, to answer your question - number 1 with a cardio and pretty ballet slipper type things. Heels are ok if knee length but if the hem falls above the knee then heels make it look too clubby. The actual dress is very pretty, I'd just be concerned about having legs and cleavage on show for a wedding I'm just jealous as have no cleavage.

Even just something to cover up your shoulders would take the first dress from "night out" to "wedding guest" in my opinion.

You have a fabulous figure by the way.

The Asda and Dorothy Perkins suggestions are lovely and far more appropriate. The New Look ones are a little trashy.

Someone posted a very pretty dress from Sainsbury's the other day too. Will try to find it.

Decent shoes will help any outfit, the ones in pic one look well beyond their best. Again, something you can pick up from one of the supermarkets.

A good charity shop would probably get you a nearly new dress and shoes for next to nothing.

This is the one. Versatile, you could dress it up or down.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/2980527-Just-bought-this-dress-in-sainsburys

Neither are suitable for a wedding, regardless of you are not close to the couple or not

Oh, out of all the options, 2 is the best, but still not quite right

Option 1 is too skimpy (you'd really have to cover up) and the third one is like a clubbing dress!

Out of all of them, if you're really really stuck, I'd go with Option 2 but dress it up with a fascinator or something that pushes it towards more of a wedding style.

Too skimpy? Huh? You could get a burkah I guess. I am in my 50 s, and can't see that that pretty dress is skimpy. Wear it with pride op, you have a great figure for it. Perfect for a wedding.

Ok, this has interested me now. Why is a normal summer dress too skimpy for a wedding? Are you seen to be tempting the husband to be? Or is it of the wedding is in a church, though most people, op included, would west a cardi/ blazer for the ceremony.
I went to a beautiful wedding in may. In a Georgian manor house, with lovely gardens. There was lots of cleavage and leg on display, and part of the pleasure was seeing everyone look so gorgeous, and in their finery. No church involved though, was that the difference? Or would you all have spent the day tutting and shuddering

Ohyesiam.
I think that a sundress like that is more informal than what I'd normally wear to a wedding - it is not just the length, but the shoulders and the black ribbing (not sure if that's the right word). It is very nice, and a lovely pattern, but looks almost sporty to me. Perhaps for a more casual wedding, but the op said it was a traditional one. The male equivalent, to me, would be attending a wedding in a short sleeved shirt, or with black trainers instead of black shoes - not awful, and no-ones going to throw you out of the church in disgust, but not really ideal either.
If I saw someone at a wedding like that, tbh I probably wouldn't really care, but the op did ask for our opinions!

Seriously, the OP gave 2 or possibly 3 options. She categorically stated she wasn't buying another. She didn't ask for opinions on her figure or where else she should buy a dress. The first dress is perfectly fine in the real world (although I would stick a cardigan on in a freezing church). I have been at literally hundreds of weddings, and people really do wear exactly what they want. The OPs first dress wouldn't stand out at all.

And honestly, New Look is trashy? WTAF? Such a nice way to refer to other women.

I think people are just trying to be helpful and prevent the OP from feeling uncomfortable and self-conscious on the day. Which she could possibly be in any of those three dresses, as they're not exactly 'safe' options for a wedding outfit.

Maybe post another pic of dress one but wearing a cardi OP? I think it would get better comments.

Crikey some of the comments on here are harsh

OP, you look gorgeous in both and have a great figure . I love dress 1, dress 2 seems a bit prom/bridesmaidy, I wouldn't goc for dress 3 either as it seems a bit more clubbing/evening out ish.

Do you have a blazer or jacket you could wear with dress 1, so that is looks something like one of these...

What one do you feel most comfortable in Op?

@LoupGarou do you have any idea where the jacket in your second picture is from? It's gorgeous!

I think the first dress with some kind of jacket in case it's chilly would work best, OP.

beekeeper I'm sorry I'm not sure, it was on my Pinterest, I've just checked and it was from a blogger called Bows and Depos, in a post called "the perfect floral blazer" but the link doesn't work anymore. I'm pretty sure the dress its worn over is a Kate Spade one, so I would guess the blazer is Kate Spade or J Crew, or maybe American Eagle Outfitters, it looks very much like on of their lines and I think J Crew used that print onna skirt last summer, so maybe one of their's? Sorry.

Thanks @LoupGarou I may do some internet browsing later on!!

You're welcome Bee

At a push the first with a nice cardi and pumps. The second is too Christmas party for a summer wedding. The third is too skimpy.