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What's the worst bridesmaid dress you've ever had to wear?

We’ve all either witnessed it or been a victim ourselves, the UGLY BRIDESMAID DRESS! It doesn’t matter what your body type is, how cute your air is or how flawless your makeup is, nothing will help this dress!

Mine was in my dad’s wedding to my stepmom. I was 16-years-old and at an age where fashion is everything, this was easily the most mortifying time I had ever experienced up to that point in my life. I was in front of all my family and especially my cousins that were my age…frolicking around in the disaster. It was a lacy, light pink, ankle length dress. The neckline was high up like a regular t-shirt and it even has short sleeves. The dress even had the worst accessories possible (keep in mind this was late 2001)…SHOULDER PADS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hated this dress so much, I even broke the bridesmaid code and took it off at the reception. It was so awful and the lace was so itchy, I just couldn’t bear to wear it a second longer. I know, I’m terrible.

So that brings me to my question: What is the worst bridesmaid dress you have ever had to wear? Or- what’s the worst you’ve ever seen at a wedding?

OMG! That is funny! I remember wearing a peach/light orange bridesmaid dress with puffy sleeves and lace! Matching dyed shoes to. Oh...the hair do? Let's not go there!

I laughed so hard I snorted.

the brides who made them wear those dresses.... were turds.

i did wear it, nor did I even see the dresses used in the wedding but back in 1998 (or was it 99?) I had the role of Elizabeth in "a Christmas Carol" pantomime my village was putting on. They decided that I absolutely needed to have the worst possible bridesmaid dress ever. So, my mother being in charge of costumes pulled out the bridesmaid's dress that my cousin wore in her sisters' wedding back in 1981. Why my mother had it, I have no idea but it fit me almost perfectly.

It was the most hideous thing I think I've ever worn... especially on stage in front of an auditorium FULL of people for 3 nights straight! lmao. It was cotton candy pink taffeta with big puffy elbow length sleeves that were elastic at the bottom with a ruffle around them. A huge ruffle that went around the off the shoulder neckline, as well as numerous ruffles around the hem of the skirt. I opted not to wear the crinoline with it because the crinny was lilac and quite possibly one of the biggest hoop skirts I think I've ever seen! I know 80's fashion was bad, but I really do wonder what my cousin was thinking when she picked the BM dresses.

Ladies - These photos are REAL bridesmaid dresses! Some of them are rather recent. The second photo over was a bridesmaid dress of an 80's themed wedding. How cruel!!!! People.com has a whole bad bridesmaid dress section. Too funny!

I think there's a tie for the worst dress I've ever had to wear.
Dress #1 was actually similar to the gold 1s in the pic above, but my dress was peach....yes PEACH...ugh
Dress #2 was actually pretty (and not peach). But, it was so tight...and uncomfortable, after an almost 2 hour long ceremony, I had to leave before we had dinner at the reception or I would have literally passed out.

I forgot about the dress I had to wear in my maid of honors wedding!!! It was a beautiful dress, and in all fairness to her, she had no idea they would be so tight. But we could hardly breathe!!!

I couldn't sit down in it without hiking the material up to loosen it. I had to unzip the dress and completely remove it (and be completely NAKED) just to go to the bathroom! Imagine walking down the aisle in this number. Or sit (and stand and sit and stand) through a catholic wedding. AHHHHH!!!!!

Sapphire, I think we wore the same dress!! lol

I had once been part of an Easter Break daycamp at our church, and I had been asked to dress up and play the role of a princess. So, somehow they found a bright pink, poufey-sleaved, floor length dress that came straight from the '80s.

I don't think it helped that it was THAT easter Monday that E. had proposed to me. So, everyone was taking pics of me in the costume and making wedding comments. ...
Fun times.

I remember one wedding where this bride (I knew the groom) had about 10 bridesmaids and she has them in the colors of the rainbow. It was the same dress on very different body types. This was about 8 years ago and I thought OMG!

thankfully this day and age B2B are getting nicer to their friends and letting us wear nice dresses(prob cuz they want to keep us as friends after the wedding lol) But My soon 2 be mother in law had the worst dresses ever for her wedding party. She said it didnt matter what the girls wore she wanted to make sure she was going to stand out that day! her dress was actually cute for getting married in the 70's very classic and timeless.
her BM dresses on the other hand wow she is lucky they agreed to wear them!
They were bright yellow kinda like your forth picture but picture them with long sleeves, gloves, hat and white witch shoes! OMG and the poodle perms lmao but apparently that was the "style" back than lol poor girls

My aunt almost made us wear they ugly ass pink buisness dress suits for the wedding at the end of JUNE! Are you kidding me?? lol. It was like 100 degrees outside.
Her sister fortunately said "If we have to wear those i aint in the wedding!" So after that the bride picked pink flowy dresses that were 100% better!!!