Bridesmaid...

[verovladamir]

My cousin is getting married in three months. I will be about five months along with number 2. She has asked me to be in her wedding and I'm thrilled, but I need a dress. She knows I'm pregnant and is really easy going about the dresses, asking only that it be navy blue or silver- everything else is up to us. I don't want to spend a lot of money

Comments

[kaitl]

What about something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/74ymgnl

Other stores that carry maternity: gap, Loft

At 5 months (esp if this is your first baby), your belly might not be too big. I'm 20.5 weeks right now and could probably wear most loose-fitting dresses.

You also might want to keep your eye on Zulily.com for a few days to see if anything pops up.

[babytalking]

I think, especially if you stick to navy blue, it could be easy to find a pretty maternity gown! I just browsed down Old Navy dresses (something I do every day anyway) and found this: http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=48687&vid=1&pid=104642&scid=104642022 ... maybe paired with silver shoes and jewelry, or a light cardigan, something like that could be great. Of course I'm not sure if October is cold where you live, etc. But I think there are a lot of elegant, simple options.

[riney]

FYI - I ordered the above dress for a wedding (to wear as a guest) and was greatly disappointed in it. It looks really nice! But the fit was off, and the fabric was very casual. Probably not something you'd want to wear as a bridesmaid.

I ended up finding my dress at Target - they have a few really nice, dressy dresses from time-to-time.

[babytalking]

That's disappointing! It definitely looks a little more dressy in the photo. I like Old Navy, but they are very hit and miss. I have a maternity dress that ended up looking kind of frumpy and loose on me, although admittedly it will probably look a lot more fitted when I'm farther along. But sometimes they have great stuff.

[snuck]

Second ones pop much more, more quickly apparently, mine hasn't popped yet, but we'll see what happens at 12 weeks

[verovladamir]

I should have been a little more clear. I'm 8 weeks now and already showing...

[snuck]

:) Not just bloat? I guess it doesn't matter if it's bloat or baby, either way by five months you'll be baby bloated :P

How long can you wait before buying? And then something with some 'forgiveness' is a great idea - either a stretchy fabric or a bunched/gathered section or whatever.

How lucky that you've got such a reasonable friend about all this - that she's totally cool with you each having whatever dresses you want etc :)

[verovladamir]

Im pretty sure it's belly and not bloat. I started showing between ten and twelve weeks with my first, so it doesn't seem off that I'd be peeking out a bit already. I wan to put off buying the dress as long as I can, but the wedding is in three months and with time needed to get it fitted potentially, sooner is probably better.

[riney]

Check thrift stores! That's where I've found a lot of great maternity wear.

[kharissa]

No matter where you buy/what style, you should WAIT! you dont want to get into making predictions about what you'll be able to wear, you kind of just can't tell with something like a dress, where your boobs may or may not decide to get all giant overnight and make it look like you showed up going for the knocked-up pornstar look, lol.

I learned this lesson the hard way when my wedding dress went from a little bit of cleavage to BAM! because my D cup size freakishly increased to an H in less than a month. Not kidding, I wouldnt have believed this was possible if it weren't me trying to figure out what the hell to do the morning of my wedding. LOL. And I totally bought it with *extra room,* but anything more than 2 wks out and it's just a complete crapshoot!