(MODS - Not sure whether to put this in Rants or Help but as it's mostly ranting, I have put it in Rants. Feel free to move it)
H2B has a daughter from previous relationship aged 8 and we have a 3 year old daughter together and both are our only young BMs. H2B has barely asked for anything in this wedding but it would mean a lot to him that both girls are in matching dresses which all seems well and good except for the fact that his ex-wife has basically let their daughter go and she has put on a fair bit of weight so is now plus-size!! The sizes of clothes she wears varies from shop to shop but on average she is in 11-12 years clothes, now we have a tight budget and are looking to spend no more than roughly £80 in total for both dresses but it's causing a lot of stress for me as most places will have the perfect dress that will fit our daughter but not his and vice versa, I have looked into some American sites but his daughter and her mum did not like the dress I suggested, not only that, apparently satin is bad for younger BM dresses as it creases so easily!!! We found a nice one from a Chinese seller but I was not happy with their feedback so am really apprehensive about buying that one and H2B agrees it's best to steer clear from that one too!!
I am getting really wound up with this now as we want to buy them next week but are still no closer to finding an ideal dress (never mind a perfect one)!!
Can anyone please help??
We need them in lilac. I can put up measurements if anyone needs them??
Thank you ladies. xxxxx

Definitely needs to be lilac as the Adult BMs dresses are already bought and are lilac. The girls would look out of place if they were a different colour.
I have tried Monsoon, Primarni, Asda, Tesco and H&M. Not sure where else to try but am open to suggestions?? xxx

Oh pants! :-(
Sorry but I am stumped as what to suggest.

I understand the colour now as I have just seen your dress! WOW!

A lot of bay of e sellers do custom dresses - so if you found a style which would suit them that is modelled on adults they'd make it smaller for you I'm sure :)
Find a seller with nice dresses and good feedback and ask them? xx

Hey, they do lovely dresses in BHS wedding section in all different colours.
I walked past there the other day and i thought i wish i had a little one to buy a pretty dress for. but all my bridesmaids are grown :)
Good luck x

I would go back to the h2b and ask if he really wants them in the same dress. After all at the age of 8 she is getting bigger now and I think a teen dress would look more flattering on her and make her feel more grown up and then have the little one in something more frilly. I got two dresses from ebay for £15 for my 3 year old. One is size 3 and the other 4-5 so I know at least one will fit her and it solved the problem of expense for me. BHS do some nice lilac dresses for teens so it would make her feel more grown up like the others.

NWRIGHT - In town tomorrow so will have a look, Thanks for that. xx
RICKY - How long did they take between ordering and arriving?? xx
JO - It's getting to that point, found loads of lovely ones on Bay of E but they either had them in our daughters but not his size or in his daughters not ours size, I wanted to give him that as he has not asked me for hardly anything else in this wedding and when he married his ex, he didn't get a say in anything, she even chose his best man!!! xx
SPOONEY - Thank you, had a look but it's too dark, we want a lighter lilac than that. Thank you anyway. xx

OK, can you post the link on my wall then please?? xx

done xxxx

Thank you both, will have a look. xx

Oh thats strange as the link works fine on mine. Okay will add the catalogue web address and the catalgue number for the dress onto your wall so you can look it up that way. Hope that works fingers crossed xx

Spooney, already looked at that one. lol. cheers anyway. xx

After an extensive trawl through all possible shops in Plymouth and online, we decided to go with the original one from the Chinese seller that we were originally apprehensive about.
They give 3 options for delivery, the 1st is standard and can take anything from 11 to 30 business days, the 2nd is via a delivery service which appears to be kinda like the Chinese version of DHL which is for a slightly higher charge but should take between 7 and 12 business days, and the 3rd is via UPS which has a higher charge again but will take 4 to 7 business days but you may have to pay customs fees and some other fees on top.
We decided to go with Option 2 but messaged first asking how much more it would cost and they replied saying that as we were ordering 2 at the same time, we could have otption 2 at no extra cost!!
We ordered and paid for them both yesterday lunchtime (Wednesday) and I got an email into my inbox at around 3 am this morning saying they had been shipped!!!!
Will keep you all updated. xxx

Momari, It was the same seller you posted on my wall so thank you. xx