I have just the hoop skirt, hat and parasol combo to fit you.

OMG msbelle, I am planning the same dream wedding!!! I used to tell all that could hear that I was having a Gone With the Wind Themed wedding with hoops and parasols and hats in the hopes that noone would ever ask me to stand in their wedding, thinking I'd reciprocate.

I am re-committing to just reading off my tbr shelves and using the library for a while.

This is me. But add forgetting to return library books on time and having to pay late fees. Buffista conversation #???.

I use the library a lot because I rarely know if I'll like a book enough to want to own it. (The criterion is: will I read it again?)

If need be, I can loan ita a hoop skirt, a hat, and a parasol. They'd all be black, is that okay?

ION, I just spent a bunch of time poking around Lookbook.nu, and I now feel confused and old. I know that I have Very Definite Views on fashion, but seriously? That is what passes for fashion? Why? Because most of the outfits look like the by-the-pound section of Goodwill attacked someone, but the person managed to escape from ONLY the pants.

I was a bridesmaid in my aunt's wedding in, like, 1985? Dark pink gown with shoes dyed to match, natch. Then I was a bridesmaid in my younger brother's wedding in 1995 with my sister-in-law's 7 sisters! The gown wasn't bad for a trad bridesmaid's dress but, sheesh, 8 ladies in the same dress is A. Lot. It was cranberry and a bunch of people were calling us the dancing berries. Including the bride. Who was hoping that she could be the last of her sisters who, due to family politics, had to have all the other sisters in the wedding. I don't think it worked, though, I know her next sister down had them all.

I was also in my friend's wedding in '96 and she just had us wear a black dress.

I told my committee that I have no bridely need for them to wear anything specific and they should just go with what would make them feel most beautiful and would be something they'd get some use out of. They decided on their own to match. They (and Bob's groomslady) are getting this:

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In evening blue. I didn't go with them when they picked it but my friend who tried the sample said it looks way better on her curvy frame than it does on the model.

Ooh, lisah, that's pretty!

Yeah, I felt no need to dictate what my bridesmaid would wear. I just told her to wear whatever she would feel pretty and comfortable in. A couple of my coworkers were SHOCKED at this -- "But what if she wears orange? You'll clash in the photos!" (I wore red & gold.) I wasn't sure how to reply. "Um... then she'll wear orange, and the photos will be really colorful?" As it turned out, she wore black with an orange scarf, and my flower girl wore a different shade of red with a green sash, and... the photos look great!

That's so pretty, lisah!

Kate, your pictures are awesome. Everyone looks so happy.

My bridesmaid dresses were poufy-sleeved, vee-necked monstrosities from the early '90s, one in teal, one in ... essentially grandma's wallpaper on pale blue. Horrible. The other outfit was black trousers and a long black vest sort of thing, which was not bad, but never fit me quite right.

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Lessee, I have worn: a full-length green iridescent taffeta pouf-short sleeved bow-on-butt dress. With control top panty hose. In August. In Missouri. Rented.

A forest green lace overlaying a green slip, knee-length dress from Newport News. October. Cave wedding. Fine and comfortable, donated to H.S. theatre department for costumes.

Dark, slightly iridescent blue taffeta knee length vintage cocktail dress. Early 60's full knee length. July wedding, St Louis sculpture garden. Hot, but fun wedding. Mid 90's. All attendants wore great blue vintage dresses, not the same, except for groom's sis, who wore some white, flowery Wal-Mart lookin' thang. (Chica, how hard is medium blue, 50-60's dress to find? REALLY.) Looked great, would have worn again, except Jo had an open bar, and I got so drunk to tore the dress wrestling out of it later that night. Kept it for years, anyway.

The two wedding with nice dresses I walked down the aisle stoned (as did most the wedding party.) Fun weddings.

The green taffeta monstrosity wedding ended with the bride deciding she was a lesbian, divorcing, buying a house with another gal, then getting knocked up by a biker, breaking up with the gal AND the biker, and moving alone to open up a gourmet food shop in small town Kansas, with her baby.

I have told my two attendants to buy something pretty and casual-cocktaily in the purple/pink/silver family that they will want to wear again many times.

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That is AWESOME.

I had simple, A-line bridesmaid dresses with spaghetti straps and bolero jackets, in cream and pale peach. I had hoped they'd be wearable to cocktail parties and such but I doubt that happened.

At least they didn't resemble the meringue that was me.