Hello All, I hope you can help me, will anyone give me any tips into how much involvement bridesmaids should have with regard to choosing the bridesmaid dresses. I know what i would like but my bridesmaids want to be involved!!

What are your thoughts

i showed my bridesmaids the dress that i liked for them and they all liked it so thats the one that they are having :-) my bridesmaids are really easy going and know its my day so they would wear whatever i picked for them really.... x

I suggested a long one shouldered chiffon dress, and although they all thought it was lovely - one was concerned how it'd make her boobs look, the other preferred a shorter length, etc... I managed to get them to try it on, and decided as my 14 year old sister is extremely self conscious, I would go with whatever she wanted... none of the girls contributed to their dress so I thought it was fair that way. Fortunately they all loved the dress I liked, and my sister had a little smile and a twirl so I'm dead happy xxxxx

Why don't you all go dress shopping together and find dresses that you all agree on? You could make a fun day of it, going shopping and having lunch. Xx

i chose their dresses even though they were paying as they all said its my day and they'd wear whatever I wanted - obviously I wanted them to like them though so they could wear them again. Luckily they all loved the first one I suggested so we didn't have any problems :o)

I agree with Emma, I have chosen my bm's dresses again I am paying however I would never make them wear something they weren't comfortable in. I also choose the colour (emerald green my fav) but because I thought it would look lovely on my red head sister and olive skinned cousin.

my bms are paying for their own dresses i pciked the colour of course but we all picked the dress! ( well i found it and hsowed them it lol) they all luv it and its sumting that cud be used again

we chose one we liked for the bridesmaids ( a simple white cocktail dress) as we're paying for them. Luckily they all liked it

the matron of honour we let choose her own dress as long as it was either white or baby pink and went well with the others we had already brought.

I have told my bridesmaids that as long as the dress is floor length and all of them are wearing the same shade of green (which we have picked together) and all in the same material (looking like chiffon atm) they can have whatever dress they like. My sister is a bit on the larger side and so has been looking at dresses with thicker straps but one of my other bridesmaids prefers the one shouldered style). This means that my maids wont all be dressed exactly the same but will have a similar theme running through them all.

i think i am weird....we went for knee length, sleevelss white cocktail dresses ....
saw it on one of the wedding shows on tv, an all white wedding, and wanted that, but there is some pink sneaking in lol
Bridesmaids going to have pink bows round waists ( Little tip - chair bows, 99p on bay e lol)