Bridesmaids dresses!!! Blah! I absolutely cringe just thinking of the bloody things. Dowdy, ill-fitting, complexion fighting, unwearable, itchy dresses. WHY??? At one point I thought that being asked to be a bridesmaid, just meant that the bride thought you a less attractive friend who would not pose any threats of upstaging. What they didn't realise was that I only ever noticed what hideous garments draped the poor souls who were too polite to decline the role of ugly stepsister bridesmaid.
Emma H. (who was my honourary maid-of-honour, stylist, and coordinator of the wedding coordinator), is going through her duties as maid-of-honour as we speak in Trinidad, and luckily for her she gets to choose her own dress. And yes, there are lovely cookie-cutter type dresses, but sometimes that is just not enough.