Maxi dress to a wedding?

[caseymoo]

Hi all, I'd love your advice on this! I'm totally useless with fashion and clothes (literally live in leggings and long tops)
So I have a wedding to go to in a few weeks, close friends and DH is best man. I'll be 6 months pregnant and on a very tight budget due to also having a 11 month old with me.

Anyway to the point, do you think a maxi dress will be ok to wear? I never go to weddings so im not sure what's acceptable wear! Also, if I were to wear one what kind of shoes would you have? I'm really not good in high heels and also having to run around after a baby that won't be a good combination.

Any advice will be gladly taken on board!

Yes, there are some lovely maxis around at the moment, and surprisingly a lot of really cheap ones in the High St and even supermarkets (I like Tu by Sainsbury's) if the budget's really tight.

You can easily get away with flats in a maxi, you won't want to be in high heels with a 6 month bump

btw I'm wearing a maxi to ds's wedding, as is the bride's mum. Good enough for Kate Moss to wear to her friends' weddings, good enough for us

I’m going to a wedding later this year. It is outside - think glamping- I’ll be wearing a maxi dress and espadrilles (or wellies). It should be fun.

Most people I know wear Maxis to weddings and look lovely. I don't, because I'm a short arse, but I'd love to.

Brilliant thank you all for the replies! I'll have a shop around and see what I can get

As your DH is best man, you should be able to find out what the colour scheme is, and then avoid buying a dress in anything similar so you don't look like a spare bridesmaid

Well it depends on the maxi I'd think. I'm wearing this to a wedding soon with flat dressy sandals.
A beach maxi with denim jacket obviously wouldn't be appropriate.

Stay away from very pale and lacy though

My DH's brother is getting married in June and DH is also the best man. I will also be 6 months pregnant. I feel that because DH is best man I need to look really nice and I did find a lovely dress but it was £125. I figured it wasn't worth spending that on a dress just for one day (that I'd probably never ever wear again either), and I would have probably got hot and uncomfortable in it.

I am opting for this instead. Only £22 from Dorothy Perkins. I have other maxi dresses in the same style so know it is really comfy, I shouldn't get hot easily as it's flowy and airy and most importantly I know I will be comfortable. I'm going to wear these sandals with it (£25 from Asos) and either a pink/blue clutch bag.

@kaytee87 that's a lovely dress!

Yes a maxi dress and flats is the way to go. I wore a lovely maternity maxi dress from Next to a wedding when expecting DS and some gold sandals, felt really good and most importantly comfy!

I wore a maxi to my best friend's wedding.I wasn't the only one

A maxi is lovely at a wedding, but definitely check bridesmaid colours, I have made this mistake in a lovely blue Grecian number and kept being asked if I was one. All the more awkward as I was a groom friend and didn't know the bride or her friends and was worried they were judging me...I didn't know!