Wedding guest dress - help!

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I've never been any good at this! Going to a wedding next month, and just for once I'd love to feel like I look ok. Not amazing, just confident and making the most of what I've got.

I'm 39 and usually size 14, maybe a stone overweight with the worst of it sitting around my middle. Upper arms and legs ok, fairly tanned and dark hair.

I don't want to wear anything too heavy or structured, both because it might be hot and because in my experience that doesn't deal well with my stomach, I just end up looking large / squeezed into the outfit, even with shapewear.

So far my options are this dress, which doesn't conceal my middle but I'm considering just going with that. But, not sure whether it's too 'young' for me for a wedding, or how to style it.

www.fatface.com/sale/womens-sale/alissia-midi-dress/942848.html?cgid=sale-womens-sale&dwvar_942848_color=rhubarb red#pagination=true&start=56

I've also got a dress from a few years ago which is a more flattering fit, but its orange based and I dont think it suits my colouring very well.

Definite preference for light/floaty.

Can I wear the red dress? What would you wear with it? Any other suggestions? I could buy something new, budget would stretch to £100 or so for the right dress

TIA!

Oh yes, that's a lovely dress. I'd honestly abandon any ideas of 'wedding outfit' and just go in what you want (jeans and a long white dress aside) with your hair and makeup done nicely and you'll look and feel brilliant.

Oh and I'd wear it with sandals and a little cardigan.

I always err on the side of underdressed though.

Tbh with the figure you've described (I'm the same) I don't imagine that dress would be the most flattering - and it looks pretty casual.
Where is the wedding/how dressy?

Last year , while watching the guests going to the Royal wedding, I was surprised to notice that really, anything goes!
Wear something that you feel comfortable and happy in, then you’ll be wearing a big smile all day, and that’s really the best thing you can wear! You’ll look happy, confident and attractive

Thanks all.

Palahva it's not that flattering around the midsection but nothing is really, after many years of buying clothes and thinking I'm disguising my stomach and then seeing photos afterwards I've come to realise that you either cant hide your shape, or I'm crap at doing it!

I'm open to other suggestions if anyone has them.

I dont think that it's a dressy wedding, and I'm just a close family members plus one so no one is going to really care or notice what I wear

What about this version of the same dress? Looks a bit more "festive" (although not with the shoes the model's wearing!) and has more "distracting" pattern. Or is the orange base wrong for you? (I'm slightly confused why some are £15 and some are £55...)

Apologies for epic link.

www.fatface.com/women/clothing/dresses-skirts/alissia-sunset-floral-midi-dress/942546.html?dwvar_942546_color=amber&dtm_campaign=shopping&dtm_channel=ppc&dtm_source=google&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi_SPgvCs4wIVyLHtCh0AwgC8EAQYASABEgLWj_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#fo_c=1356&fo_k=d97ea1f9e99d821b9eac00ae9fbd3453&fo_s=gplauk&dtm_source=GOOGLE&dtm_channel=PPC&dtm_campaign=FatFace-UK-PLA-All-Eng-All-SE-Google+Shopping-Low+Priority-ROAS+Above+Target-CSS&dtm_content=Clothing+-+Womens

I actually got that one as well as they were both £15, I'm not sure how good my judgement is on this sort of thing but I think the red one suits my colouring better.