Pregnant & Going to a Wedding

on July 3, 2009 at 7:00 AM

Photo from Sailor Pink Vintage

I've talked about my friend Melody before -- she's supermodel gorgeous and is getting married on July 10th! (I made her famous by showing her ugly sweater party outfit.)

I couldn't be more excited for her. I've fantasized about what I would wear to her wedding since her engagement. She wants it to be Hollywood glam, everyone dressed up, super stylish, if not slightly outrageous.

All of this I was really into, until now. I will be 15 weeks pregnant with twins -- I'm showing a lot -- and well it's July in NYC...it's HOT. And I'm a sweaty pregnant lady. Plus my ankles are tree trunks and I'm so cranky about what to wear.

Guest blogger and Lucky editor Meredith offered up this really pretty white dress to wear to a wedding. But with Melody's theme, it's not going to work.

So instead of spending $400 dress from Foley + Corinna (which I really wanted to do originally -- they have the most amazing dresses), I went vintage.

Photo from Forever 21

I bought this 70s Teal Town Dress for $40 from Sailor Pink Vintage. It has room for my baby bump and will hide my cankles. And it isn't black like all my other fancy dresses! Yay!

I'm going to wear it with either my fancy gold wedge sandals or these Miu Miu shoes I scored from my friend Leila at my swap party. They are strappy and are a faux snakeskin teal and black combo.

I may even wear a big flower with feathers in my hair. I bought something like this (seen at right) from Forever 21 for about $5 and love it.

Anyone else pregnant and going to a wedding? What are you wearing?

About the author Michele Zipp

loves vintage and will defend skinny jeans to the death though she is highly superstitious and "death" is probably a bad word choice. She has a touch of the hoarding disease and enjoys sleuthing, the worst reality shows, and wearing high heels, even at the playground. She's an AP mom of twins, slightly crunchy but with a pedicure.

Filed Under: maternity clothes, the pregnant life

Comments (6)

sstepph

on Jul 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM

My best friend got married June of last year and I was almost 8 months pregnant at the time and it was a HOT day. I originally bought a cute black wrap dress to wear but when I woke up and it was suppose to be 90 and an outside wedding, I changed my mind! I ended up wearing a pink babydoll tank top that I got from AE and a white flowy linen skirt. SO glad I wore it cause I stayed cool!!

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amybuddy45

on Jul 3, 2009 at 12:10 PM

I just went to a wedding last weekend and I am 8 months. I wore a nice lavender dress from motherhood with a tie in the back. It went to my knees and I wore black flip flops with a pretty jewel on it. I did my hair nice with some curl and had nice makeup on. This was a sleeveless dress so I wasn't sweaty but I was warm since the place did not have air conditioning.

Solera

on Jul 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM

I think the dress you chose is beautiful. I think you will look Hollywood Glam when it's all said and done! Hell the stars can pull it off in fancy dresses, and so can you!

vegasgirltam76

on Jul 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM

I love your choice of dress. I will be in a wedding on September 4th (in Las Vegas and it will still be 100 degrees) and she choose black and white bridesmaid dresses. Fantastic. :) I will be 3 months prego so maybe I can still hide the bump. But not looking forward to the heat. I will also be attending another wedding at the end of September and will be almost 4 months pregnant then at least that one is in Hawaii. Then everyone will see the small bump and call me fat, when I put on a bathing suit! :) Oh well. At least I am finally pregnant.

jennybean79

on Jul 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM

I was the matron of honor at my best friend's wedding last month - at 6 months pregnant! She actually managed to find a decent dress that looked good on me that the other girls were able to wear also. It was a lime green halter dress in jersey knit. I got it 3 sizes larger than what I normally wear and I only had to have the top altered a little bit.

valerie.h

on Jul 7, 2009 at 11:30 PM

I just got married 2 weeks ago. I was 5 months pregnant to the day. Obviously i wore a wedding dress. I was showing but everyone knew we were expecting. I had picked this date (june27) out over a year in advance and there was no way in heck i was changing it just because i am pregnant. It was a wonderful wedding.

My friend got married last weekend. i wore a very cute orange and brown number from target. I wore brown flat sandles. I think i looked pretty good.

remember no matter what you wear you will look great and have a good time!