How Cheap Bridesmaid Dresses are a Gift to Your Bridesmaids

Although being chosen as a bridesmaid is a distinct and special honor, it can carry the weight of the world when you are unable to purchase everything needed. When a bridesmaid has to turn down the honor, its time to rethink your dress selection. Here are some options which will help you down the road.

1. Amazon.com has some amazingly cheap bridesmaid dresses, which are beautiful and elegant as well. Sites from all over the USA and UK (for amazon.co.uk) place their merchandise on Amazon.com. These prices need to be competetive, so you will often find lower prices. Here is an example:

2. If you're specific in style and color, perhaps your bridesmaid dresses don't need to be the exact same. Send your bridesmaids out to buy their own dresses with your style and color in mind. You can always specify formal or informal. Hint: choosing informal will save them quite a bit of money.

3. Buy material in bulk and take to a seamstress that will give a discount because you're having so many of the same type made. Tip: certain seamstresses may charge more for difficult material like lace or silks.

4.  Offer to pay for their dresses if they will do some of the wedding planning with you. Planning a wedding isn't an easy task and the more help you get the better. While most bridesmaids will help anyway, giving them more difficult tasks, like calling around to find the best catering prices, will consume man hours. If you repay them buy purchasing their bridesmaid dress, you are helping them and yourself.

5. Choose a style of dress which will be wearable in the near future. A little black dress perhaps or a sundress which isn't too formal. Bridesmaid dresses , while no longer the atrocities of the past, are still usually relegated to the back of most women's closets. By choosing a dress which can be worn over and over, you've made it possible for a bridesmaid to economize.

6. Opt for no jewelry. Cheap bridesmaid dresses may be a great way to keep costs down, but having less costs all around is also helpful. Asking for or even better, providing the jewelry for your bridesmaids will help alleviate some of the costs.

7. Go for less fancy hairstyles, perhaps just a bun. If one bridesmaid has a specific hairstyle, the rest may feel obligated to get the same. Specifically request a plain updo and you may be aiding in the relief of a friend.

Happy weddings and you can find more cheap bridesmaid dresses information on my blog.