Roundup: Mother of the Bride Dresses

We’ve been considering putting together a cool Mother of the Bride roundup (to go with your Cool Flower Girl Roundup) for a few months now. But the problem is, no one on the APW staff is old enough to be a mother of the groom dresses 2016 (or Bridegroom, as perhaps I one day will be). And while we’re not too bad at attire twenty and 30 year olds (or terrible, tiny children), we have no business attire grown-ass ladies. So, we located our sensory faculties, and asked the best in the business, Lisa of Benefit, who is undoubtedly a talented mid-life style doodlekit with a bit of edge.

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In real life, Lisa is always showing up to juggle my baby in some all they wanted thrown together outfit that we would obviously kill for—T-shirt of an artfully cool children’s book drawing with a leather jacket and perfect jeans, say. Or she’s engaged and getting married in an artfully re-constructed bridal dress that can’t even be properly captured on film. In short, if there is anyone your Mom should listen to, it’s Lisa. Actually, we probably should all listen to her. So without further ado, some problem resolving, in the form of fashion.

 You might ask yourself, why is there even such a category as mother of the bride dresses with jackets? Your mom is a smart lady, with some style sense to start. She can handle this. And then she starts to look. Doesn’t want to wear black, she’s not in grieving. She can’t and really wouldn’t wear white, and red feels a little flashy. That axes 1 / 2 of her options. Now add a) she feels inappropriate showing her joints b) thinks her cleavage is not the purpose of your wedding c) admires but may not imitate Michelle Obama’s second arms.

You’re down to nubs and grits. Also, what’s that you say? Mom doesn’t want to spend more than $250, less is better? She won’t even look at a lace bolero? Righty-oh. Ever formative APW has a few ideas. (I'm sorry for the models all being approximately twenty-one. We do what we can. The rest takes imagination. )#).