Making Decisions is Awesome

After weeks of indecision and frustration (summarized here), I decided to narrow down the search. Remember, my dress is the J. CREW Sophia in ivory silk chiffon. I wanted something to match the simple style and flowy fabric. Simplest way to do that is to buy the bridesmaids dresses from
J. CREW as well.

Now, before I sound either overly preppy or made of money—remember I paid only a fraction of the cost for my dress, and as you'll see in this post my sisters got great deals as well. Buying the dresses here was a decision of convenience and availability!

In about ten minutes I scanned the J. CREW website and came up with four of their bridesmaids dress options that fit what I was looking for.

The J. CREW Mirabelle, Sinclair, Louisa, and Heidi.

Unfortunately, these dresses were still $250 or more. I found some great deals on eBay and other dress resale sites that made me think this could actually work—and then I found the sale section of the J. CREW site. First of all, I'm never buying anything full price again.

Second, I found the J. CREW Macie.

Note: I linked to the petite listing because the regular size listing doesn't show it on a model! However, it's also on sale in the regular sizes, although with limited colors. Which we can deal with for a $250 dress down to $70. That's even cheaper than I found it on resale sites online.

Now, while I absolutely loved that coral color... it just wasn't what my sisters wanted to wear. And you know what? That's ok! My sister Abigail happened to love the color gallery green which was available in her size.

Emily wasn't the biggest fan of the Macie, but she did love one of the options I had mentioned from the beginning—the Louisa, which also happened to be on sale in the color gallery green. Choosing an "off" color like gallery green turned out to be a great decision!

So here's what our final choices turned out to be. On the left is the Macie, on sale for $70–Abigail's dress. On the right is the Louisa, on sale for $130—Emily's dress.

This is going to force a slight adjustment in color—I'm basically going to replace the seafoam green in my original inspiration with this more of a kelly green. It's really not going to affect much. The bouquets (I promise I'm eventually going to blog about these!) are coral, light blue, and light yellow, all colors that will work great with kelly green. I hadn't really purchased anything else in green except the guys ties. When the dresses come, I'll see if the ties work with them. If not, I only paid $12, so I'll go out on the lookout for something else!