Bridesmaids Want To Look Pretty Too

I have to admit, I've actually gracefully declined being a bridesmaid in a freind's wedding because the dresses were just too ugly.  I'm talking bright, floor length satin pink with a lavendar sash and lavendar shoes.  Trust me when I say that I would have looked like a big bottle of Pepto-Bismol and I did everyone a favor by not showing up in that dress. 

 There is really no excuse for an ugly bridesmaid dress these days.  There are so many classy and modern dresses that forcing bridesmaids to look like pastel bombs just isn't cool.  Now if you insist on torturing your lady friends and simply want them to look garish standing next to you at the alter, then you still have plenty of orange and bright peach options, but you'll have much happier bridesmaid friends if you opt for an dress that doesn't remind them of their prom, in 1987.