subject: How to Do Group Shopping for Bridesmaid Dresses [print this page] How to Do Group Shopping for Bridesmaid Dresses
If you've ever been chosen as part of a wedding party, you already know how difficult it can be to get everyone to agree on...well, just about everything: flowers, location, time. But the biggest conflicts among the bride's side of the wedding party often have to do with just one thing: Choosing the Bridesmaid Dress. Read on to find out how group shopping online can save you time, money, and headaches!
Scheduling issues
It is rare to find a wedding party in which the bride and all of her bridesmaids, AND the maid/matron of honor, live in the same city, or even the same state. It's even rarer that you can get the entire group together for a shopping trip. Shopping for bridesmaid dresses online gives everyone the opportunity to participate in the dress-choosing process, so that you can avoid any unpleasant "surprises" when one bridesmaid dislikes the dress design that you chose.
Flexibility of online shopping
The flexibility of shopping for bridesmaid dresses online lets you avoid all the hassles that come with shopping in person: You can shop when you want, how you want, from the comfort of your own home!
Shopping online affords bridesmaids and brides benefits that you CAN'T get from shopping in person! Even if you can't meet up in person, you have the opportunity to share different images of the dresses you are considering. This means you can get not only the opinions of the wedding party, but with anyone with an e-mail address!
Sharing images the right way
Being able to share these images with your friends and family is great, but what if you are stuck deciding between two bridesmaid dresses and can't decide which to go with? Shopping online means that you can link the pictures of the dresses to your favorite social media site, like facebook, twitter, etc. You can blog about it, set up a poll so that all of your facebook friends (and of course, all the bridesmaids!) can weigh in on the decision!
The variety of colors, materials, cuts and sizes are SO much easier to browse online rather than by hand in the store! If you like a bridesmaid dress design that you see online, you can also see it in every different color or length with the click of a button; in any physical dress shop, how likely is it that they carry every possible color or size? Rather than having to make multiple trips to different stores to find one that carries a certain color, you can explore ALL the options, right from your web browser.
Notes in one place
After a long day of trudging around the mall shopping for bridesmaid dresses, how could anybody possibly remember the pros and cons of every single dress that they saw or tried on? Shopping online eliminates this all too common frustration: you can bookmark the pages from your browser, save them to your desktop, print them out - whatever works best for you.
Nobody wants to try on EVERY single style of bridesmaid dress that a bridal shop might carry; all the zipping and unzipping alone would exhaust you. Shopping online shows you exactly what the dress will look like on a person, often with multiple angles and even videos, so that you can get a sense of what type of shape would flatter your bridesmaids' figures best.
