Bridesmaid Dress Blog Posts

Welcome to the bridesmaid dress blog posts section. The bride is typically the most important person on the wedding day, but the bridesmaids are clearly very important — they are the visible half of the wedding party, and their dresses set the color and formality of the whole event in photographs. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the bridesmaid dress posts from the fashion blog, and links the bridal fashion and bridal gown indexes at the top for the rest of the wedding party's reading.

Bridesmaid Dress Blog Posts

About Bridesmaid Dresses

One post sits in this index: Fall 2014 Bridesmaid Dress Collection, a seasonal collection post. The short list is honest — bridesmaid dresses generate fewer blog posts than bridal gowns because the fashion story of a wedding concentrates on the bride — but the category itself is a substantial retail business. A bridesmaid dress is bought under constraints no other dress has: it must coordinate with anywhere from two to ten other dresses, suit different bodies in the same color, arrive in a full size run by a fixed date, and match a theme the wearer did not choose.

That constraint set explains the category's standard practices: one designer and fabric, several neckline and bodice options, so each attendant can choose a flattering cut inside a coordinated color story. The guides linked in the topic block below cover the range — the women's bridesmaid dresses guide, petite and plus size bridesmaid guides, junior bridesmaid dresses for younger attendants, and the wedding guest guides for the other side of the aisle. More bridesmaid coverage may appear over time; readers can search for additional bridesmaid dress blog posts using the blog search link at the top of this page.

The buying process is the category's other distinctive feature. Bridesmaid dresses are typically ordered as a group, months before the wedding, so that the whole party's dresses come from the same dye lot and arrive with time for alterations — a bridesmaid dress is almost always altered, since a coordinated style must fit several different figures. Junior bridesmaids, covered in the guides below, wear age-appropriate versions of the party's colors. Readers planning a wedding party will find the size-range guides — petite and plus size — as important as the style guides, because the party, not the individual shopper, is the customer.