While I’m on a roll making dress decisions, let’s talk about how I’m playing dress up with my friends! As I’ve mentioned before, I’d like my bridesmaids to be in dresses that are the same color, but in whatever style they like best. I’d like to avoid the matchy matchy maids, and just have… matchy maids! The problem was, I approached this from a specific color point of view. I had no shortage of dress lines I liked but none of them had that ’perfect’ blue. Here are the front-runners that almost made it across the finish line as I grew more frustrated with finding the blue I seemed to have had created in my imagination!
(part of the Jenny Yoo collection, photo from Style Me Pretty)
I kid you not, I liked every single dress in this line. I want them all.
When I ran dress options by my friends, they all found a dress they could point to and say, “oooh, I love that one.” I crossed my fingers and checked the available colors.
(Check out Baltic Blue, 4th row 1st column! [from jennyyoo.com])
Baltic Blue looked promising! I was so excited, I had pretty much decided this would be it. I almost sent out an email to my BMs. To be on the safe side, I swung by a local store that carries the line to check out the color in person… I’m sure you know where this is going. Sad trombone “wah waah waahhhhhhhh.” In person, the color was not nearly as vibrant as I was hoping. It leaned more towards the French Blue color you see next to it in the palette. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful color, but I really wanted something deep, bright and stunning. This just wasn’t doin’ it.
Next up: Simple Silhouettes
(Tulip)
(Iris)
(Anjelica)
These dresses were simple yet cute, and BM Lauren looooved this line. When we tried them on at a store, I almost had myself convinced they had a great color, but this was the color that Mr. Guinea Pig accused of being too periwinkle. And as I said, he was right – oh noooo! And even though I hadn’t wanted a shiny/slinky material, I even looked into the color of the Iris dress I showed above, but it turns out it’s much darker when you don’t have a photography studio light shining on it! Right now I have “and another one bites the dust” running in a loop in my head.
(A screenshot of their bridesmaids dress page – this is only a sampling of the many cute dresses!)
When I saw the bright blue dress in the second row, I nearly jumped out of my chair (who am I kidding, I was probably lying on the couch in PJs). However, the name of that color? Teal. In person, that dress? It’s teal. It was around this point that I started to think I might be going crazy, and should just take a deep breath, let it go, and play eenie meenie miney moe with all the perfectly fine color choices out there.
But then, Sister Guinea Pig asked me “What ever happened to the color swatch of the dress line I liked?”. I had to think back, as it was the very first fabric swatch I had ever ordered and I remembered thinking it looked good, but that I wanted to look around more. I tossed the house upside down until I found it, and then – there IT was! The perfect blue!! Just like my dress, I had actually had it all along!
(Sister GP modeling a dress in our color)
I’ll post more about what line this is from and what dresses the girls are wearing later, but for now – just sit back and enjoy that beautiful blue. Doesn’t it just make you think of crystal clear water, or a perfect spring blue sky?
Did you find that not once, but twice (or more!) you had actually found the perfect item months before you finally realized it was the right thing? Did your search for the perfect color come to a happy ending?
This article was originally posted onWeddingbee.
