Dessy Bridesmaid Dresses - Shades of Pink

Unrelated to your question but how much are your dresses if you don’t mind me asking and what is your “make” time?

The full length dresses are £112 but I believe the shorter versions are about £88! Apparently the delivery could be 8-9 weeks? That's just by looking at the delivery times on their page! the dresses I want are out of stock at the mo but hoping they come back in! X

Oh! I had a shop come back to me and say starting £125, It was a shop in a upmarket village though....

Sea pink and suede rose are nice colours and I think could go well. There is a company called weddington way, it's American but you can order free sample swatches of the dessy collection, I think you can order upto 6 free. Might be worth looking on their website and ordering swatches.

When you say the girls are different sizes/shapes, just how different do you mean? I have had 5 distraught bridesmaids, from different weddings, in the shop over the last 2 years who vary in size from 16 to 22 and 5ft 2 to 5ft 10 who have hated them as the extra fabric usually ends up gathering around the waist (just where a larger lady does not need it) and making them look extremely lumpy and bumpy where in fact they have had great shapes in a more structure gown. Im afraid these twist and wrap dresses arent a "one size fits all" solution.

Thanks for all the advice girls!

My BM range from roughly a size 8 - 14/16 with the all being about 5'4 - 5'8. One of my girls has quite a big chest which I was thinking more of, as I thought the stretchy fabric may be better. She's also had these style of dresses as a previous BM and loved it. I suppose like you say it maybe isn't for everyone! Such a hard decision to try and get it right for everyone!

As someone else who is now at the end of over two years of planning, please don't rush into decisions about something as big as bridesmaid dresses. I did this and then changed the colour scheme, thankfully nothing had been purchased yet. Things seem so certain and then can change in the blink of an eye. I'd also say as a bigger girl myself that those twist and wrap dresses are not always the most flattering.

However, it may be that these are perfect on your girls To me the suede rose looks more purple than pink and my fave is either the petal or the chalk. My colour scheme is dusky pink too.

I hope you enjoy looking through all of the options x

Thank you Claire_91 :-) it is a big decision! I'm confident with other decisions I've made, such as the colour scheme, centrepieces, band, photographer etc. It's when it comes to other people that I hit a brick wall! I've sent my BMs plenty of ideas to get a feel for what they like/don't like as they know what style suits them best!

My BMs are all over the country so it's really difficult to get everyone together. I'm hoping next year to get a weekend with all the girls and hopefully find a good bridal shop that will help us find what we want. Aslong as they are the same colour, I'm happy for the girls to choose what suits them best and feels comfortable!

I love that your colour scheme is dusky pink too :-) what dresses have you gone for in the end if you don't mind me asking? X

Are you looking at ordering the dessy wrap dresses from americaband having them shipped over. A friend did this and once shipping and customs tax was added the long dresses worked outbaround 190 each. Just something to be aware of. Bridal shops sell them around this price. I went for bhs wrap dresses in the end. Quality was just as good (intried groupon ones but they were crap) and only 80 for full length. They do a pink shade I think its called ballet and its similar to the dessy chalk pink ones.

If it the twist wrap dresses you want, you can buy these directly from Dessy from £88 for the short one or £112 for the long one. You can also find lots of discount codes online, or sign up to their website and get a code - i ordered mine and got 10% off and free shipping from New York to Edinburgh.

No need to go through a bridal shop who may well charge above and beyond that to have them shipped.

I bought the purple (regalia colour) with a chiffon over skirt for my bridesmaid and it's lovely. perfect for her as she was very picky about her style and couldnt find anything she liked, s with the twist dress she can style it herself

Dessy were also very helpful as the dress i wanted wasn't in stock and someone at Dessy helped me to special order the one i wanted and it arrived very quickly, they couldn't have been nicer. and i paid no additional custom charges when i picked them up from royal mail

if you do decide to buy a twist dress, buy it direct

Thanks everyone :-)

All I had looked at was on the dessy uk site so I'd imagine they would be shipped over? I heard that the original matte jersey full length ones I wanted have been discontinued and replaced with the chiffon over skirt version!

I will definitely keep my eye out, especially on bhs as I know the have lovely ones! X