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When Should Bridesmaids Buy Their Dresses? A Complete Timeline Guide
We tackle the important wedding planning question of when bridesmaids should purchase their dresses, with honest advice from our personal experiences both as a bride and as bridesmaids.
• Let bridesmaids choose their own dress style within your chosen color scheme
• Consider that bridesmaids have different body types and comfort levels
• Order dresses 6-8 months before the wedding to allow for sizing issues
• Alterations, wrong sizes, and shipping problems are common with bridesmaid dresses
• Two months is not enough time, as demonstrated by a stressful real-life example
• Remember bridesmaids are paying for their own dresses, alterations, and accessories
• Groomsmen have it easier with standardized tuxedo rentals
• Being considerate of your bridesmaids helps everyone enjoy your special day
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Hey queens, welcome back to another episode of the Daily Buzz. So Grace, we have a question that came in, and this question is when do you suggest bridesmaids get their dresses? Everyone will be a different style.
Speaker 2:Ooh, so I feel like there's a lot that goes into bridesmaids' dresses especially. It's always easy for the guys they just all go get in tux, which is annoying. But for bridesmaids I think I did, where I let everyone pick whatever style they wanted, but it was of course the color that I chose, and I don't know. I think you should always let your bridesmaids choose their own style of dress. Everyone has different body shapes. You know body types and, yes, the day's about you. But if you're having your bridesmaids buy their dresses, their shoes, I think they should get some say in what they're wearing, especially because a lot of times you know they're not cheap. But that's my main opinion about it.
Speaker 2:And how soon do you think they should be buying them? Oh, how soon? I would say like eight to six months out, depending. Because I know my sister she got hers and it fit, but then she had to get it tailored. My sister-in-law, she ordered one and then the size was too small, so then she had to send it back and then have to get a new one. And then my other girlfriend, I think they sent her the wrong one, so then she had to get that figured out. So there's, you know, just because it's a bridesmaid's dress, it's not as elaborate as your wedding dress. Obviously there's way more alterations and timing that goes into that. But you know, if you want your bridesmaids to be comfortable and enjoy their time too at the wedding, I think eight to six months out before the wedding is the best.
Speaker 1:So I was in a wedding last fall and we ordered our dresses two months prior to wedding. They came in four weeks later, which was a month prior to wedding, and we knew that I'd have to get it tailored, because dresses are made and designed for people who are 5'7 and I'm 5'3. So I knew I'd have to get it tailored to. I knew I had to go through alterations. I'm very short, so I'm not able to. I would have just fallen all over.
Speaker 1:This dress Dress came in and they ordered the wrong size or they didn't measure me properly and we had to go down in sizes and so it was an absolute mess. It costs so much money because we had to get it expedited and then I was in alterations. I got my dress back three days prior to the wedding and it was very stressful and of course, I wasn't telling the bride of this because the bride had her own stresses. So, lesson learned I was like you said, two months. I'm like girl, you're crazy. Yeah, we didn't. We knew we were ordering like we were with a very reputable company, a very known bridesmaids company and it was.
Speaker 1:it was rough. So I agree Six months. You want to really have the girls grab those dresses because if they are going to need alterations, they need to start working on those sooner than later. You want those dresses figured out ahead of time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the money expense too If they're paying for it. You know, paying for the dress, paying for alterations, paying for shoes. You know, I think, the sooner the better, but obviously like be mindful of like not ordering it too soon.
Speaker 1:Yep so.