Proper dress varies with the hour and season, but your wedding party will look most striking if they have a uniform appearance. This used to mean that the bride chose one dress for all of her attendants to wear, regardless of body types or tastes.

Tips for Bridesmaids and honor attendants dresses:

Keeping the style and formality of your wedding gown in mind, look for ideas in bridal magazines, in stores and bridal salons, and on the internet.
Shop with honor attendant; choose her dress first.
Narrow the choices for the bridesmaids’ dresses to three styles. Or select a special fabric and color by a particular manufacturer and let bridesmaids pick their own styles. Another option: choose a design that includes many coordinated pieces that can be mixed and matched to flatter attendants of various shapes and sizes.
Let bridesmaids make the final decision since they are, most likely, buying their own dresses.

Today it is increasingly popular to let bridesmaids take a more active role in choosing their dresses, with certain parameters set by the bride, example, choosing a specific fabric or designer, then letting them choose the style of dress. Not only does this allow for some individuality, but it can also improve the chances that your bridesmaids will like and wear their dresses again.

If you don’t want all bridesmaids to dress alike, ask each to select her own style of dress in the same color family. To accommodate their various heights and weights, consider choosing dresses that are similar but not identical in style, a sleeveless dress for the friends with toned arms; one with sleeves for those who prefer to be covered up. The dresses should be in the same fabric and color, and from the same manufacturer.