Purple Haze: Maid of Honor Dress

Armed with inspiration for our off the rack maid of honor and bridesmaids dresses, my mother, my sister/MOH, and myself hit the mall! Our goal was to get an idea of what dresses were in stores (as opposed to those available online) and find her the perfect dress. Guidelines to accomplish our goal were a dress with: structure, knee-length, purple color, modest and fun, fancy/dressed up enough to be considered MOH yet something she could wear again, reasonable price, established designer.

First stop was Nordstrom at the Glendale Galleria. Nordstrom.com had so many purple and yellow dresses online, but we were only able to find one contender in store. MOH tried it on and ... wow!! Great fit, great cut, great color, great everything!!! It was the first dress she tried on and we were happy. Both MOH and I were ready to buy, but my mom wanted to go around to a few more places so that we exhausted all purple possibilities.

Other options at the Gdale Galleria didn't stack up. Nothing was fancy enough. Luckily my gown fitting at Alfred Angelo gave her time to browse the racks of bridesmaids dresses. She was in a sea of purple dresses and was able to pull a few.

She tried on two contenders, both way cute and very much possibilities.

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First up was a cute dress in chiffon and satin. The bias skirt of varying lengths gave the dress a flirty feel.

This shade of purple really looks good on her tan skin. The dress flowed nicely when she walked. But it was too low cut for her taste.

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Next up was another satin and chiffon dress, this time in a different purple, strapless, and cocktail length.

It looked good, too, and even matched her shoe laces!! The trim on the skirt was cute and shape was flattering. But it still wasn't "the one".

Once we weighed our options, we knew the first dress she tried on was the one.

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A Calvin Klein stretch satin with front and back v-neck and horizontal seams. It's structure and fit worked so well. It was modest enough, yet fun. It had the shade of purple that we love. It was perfect.

Here she is contemplating the dress, with socks on :)


The color and material are just so divine.

And it was totally flattering for this lovely young lady.

We felt very accomplished with this purchase and the relative ease in the dress search, quite thankful we met our goal.

How did your maid of honor dress search go? Were you bombarded with plenty of choices or were you happy with the first one?

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