<p>They make yellow tuxes? Burgundy I can imagine as well as powder blue. It’s just hard to imagine the guy who could pull off yellow.</p>
<p>I’m still trying to picture a wedding with hoods! I think the best piece of advice is “don’t try to match a building”! This is all very funny!</p>
<p>I loved that movie 27 Dresses. I don’t have that many, but I have kept my bridesmaid dresses. They’ve been used for school plays a few times. My worst one is really a lovely cantelope gold dress. Really a lovely dress but all wrong for me, from the color to the style. A total disaster. But it looked nice on the other bridesmaids, so… I did have mine altered to fit me slightly differently because it truly looked atrocious the way it was supposed to fit. Very loose top that over hangs the waist. I just can’t wear that style. </p>
<p>I have two dotted swiss-one yellow, and one lt blue. The yellow isn’t bad though I was not happy with it when I got it. I like it a lot more when I had to get the blue with the mutton chop sleeves and hat that made me look like Bo Peep. Not to mention that baby blue is not my color. I don’t look good in pastels unless they are in ice shades.</p>
<p>The navy Juliet gown made out of polyester actually looks good on me. It’s just if you get up close and see that it’s made out of “rubber”, it turns people off. Still looks great, still has its shape. Has been many a princess dress in school plays for middle schoolers. </p>
<p>The burgundy Victorian looked the best on me. But the dress was cut very, very small. I couldn’t eat at the reception. One of the other bridesmaids fainted in it during the mass. All of us were squeezed into those things, and some of the girls looked like overstuffed sausages. The pictures of me in the dress look terrific, but the dress was killing me.</p>
<p>Those awful 70’s and 80’s tuxes. My senior prom date wore a brocade jacket. Even then I hated it. But it sure beat our senior homecoming picture, me in a purple dress with him in a brown and red plaid sport coat.</p>
<p>Sorry, didn’t mean to hijack.</p>
<p>27 Dresses - fun, light, entertaining movie - if you haven’t seen it, be sure you do!</p>
<p>My prom date junior year was in a powder blue tux. My dress senior year was pink, so my (rather overweight) date was in a cream colored tux with a pink ruffled shirt.</p>
<p>BUT let me tell you something…one guy (hello out there Wally!) wore a black tux with a white shirt and had a yellow rosebud boutineer and we all thought he looked so classy. He was truly the only one in black and white (who knows why? probably ordered too late and the powder blue and burgundies were gone) but even then we all commented on how great he looked.</p>
<p>From 27 Dresses:</p>
<p>Guy and girl are looking at her closet filled with 27 Bridesmaid dresses. She pulls out a particularly hideous dress. Guy makes a choking sound.
Girl:It was a theme wedding!
Guy: What was the theme - humiliation?</p>
<p>I wore a *plaid *tuxedo jacket to the prom. It was my dad’s, but that’s no excuse.</p>
<p>I chuckle every time I think of bridesmaid dresses with hoods.</p>
<p>Hunt, did you have bushy sideburns, long hair, or both?</p>
<p>MommaJ–I just about exploded at your description! </p>
<p>“two rows of honking big ruffles over my butt”</p>
<p>And the hoods and Big Bird’s wedding also deserve mention. :D</p>
<p>As an organist, I have seen some unfortunate choices. The most common mistake is to choose a lovely strapless and fitted dress that looks good on a slender girl, and then force all the zaftig bridesmaids to wear it. Ugh.</p>
<p>Another thing you see is everyone forced into the same hairstyle. The bride wants everyone to wear their hair “up” and if you have short hair, that’s just too bad. :/</p>
<p>
I had long hair, but alas, no sideburns. I had several friends who grew some of their hair long in front of their ears so it looked like sideburns.</p>
<p>This thread makes me thankful I was never a bridesmaid.</p>
<p>I wanted brown tuxedos for our wedding, but couldn’t find any. I finally decided there was a REASON for that and went with charcoal gray!</p>
<p>I’ve been a bridesmaid 4 times - a peach lace disaster, a lime polyester mishap, a blue plaid taffeta abomination and a light blue chiffon number that was waaaayyy too big in the bust area - I was 12 - and had a long ribbon in the back that ended up in the toilet bowl every time I peed that evening. it looked like a wet tail flapping behind me with every step I took.</p>
<p>blue plaid taffeta? </p>
<p>Prize for most original.</p>
<p>But if those dresses had all been beautiful as well as flattering, think of all the good laughs we would have missed.</p>
<p>Tiredofsnow, I cannot stop laughing at the description of the yellow pantsuit. I would pay to see that wedding party picture!</p>
<p>ilovedcollege,
Love it!</p>
<p>FallGirl, Too true. My son and I would have been deprived of a lot of laughter if Mr PMK had not worn a tan tux to his senior prom! Mr PMK did wear his Marine Corps dress blues for our wedding and I will say that is an outfit that stands the test of time very well.</p>
<p>^^I love a man in uniform!!</p>
<p>Oh, a friend of mine from college married a guy who was a career Marine. He and all his groomsmen wore their dress blues. The wedding was on a beautiful day in May, and it was held at George Washington’s church near Mount Vernon. The most beautiful wedding I have ever seen. Couldn’t tell you what the bridesmaids wore, but those Marine dress uniforms with the swords, and afterward outside the church they did the sword-tunnel that the bride walked thru…</p>
<p>The bride wore her grandmother’s very simple but beautiful gown.</p>
<p>(sigh)</p>
<p>And it was in the 80’s! There WAS a tasteful wedding in the 80’s!</p>
<p>I told my mom about this thread where she reminded me that I wore that peach gown to my junior prom in the early 80’s. And we wonder why we supress memories…lol</p>
<p>I actually liked the dresses I wore when I was a bridesmaid, all 4 times. One of them, the bride shopped with me & the other bridesmaid & we were able to find something that looked nice on both of us (I was about 5+ inches taller than the other bridesmaid). That was the only dress I wore after the wedding–it was a floor length long floral muumuu. I believe the other bridesmaid may have worn hers too. We found it in our size & price range, hanging at the regular department store. It was very reasonably priced.</p>
<p>One of the dresses was a “Laura Ashley,” tea length pale pink dress. The bride chose it so we could wear it again (but the seam at the neckline made me itch & I had to take an antihistimine (& keep my fingers crossed) to be sure I didn’t break out in hives for the big event). The other dresses were floor length but nothing I would ever wear again–yes, one with a floppy hat.</p>
<p>Hubby wore a white tux for our wedding; he wanted to & he looked great in it. The other men wore light grey tuxes to go with the blue bridesmaid dresses.</p>
<p>The descriptions in this thread are amazing! So glad I didn’t have to wear what many of you did!</p>