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Wedding Guest Dresses by Retailer

Need help finding a dress for an upcoming wedding? We’ve rounded up our favorites from Nordstrom, Anthropologie and REVOLVE for you.

SPRING WEDDING GUEST DRESSES

NORDSTROM

Nordstrom is by far the most popular amongst our followers for shopping for wedding dresses! We have to admit that we are a little salty that the Nordstrom here in Richmond closed and haven’t shopped there in a while. BUT, they really do have a great selection of, well, almost everything. So, we hit our old trusty site to find a few favorites for wedding guests and here they are.

I picked a bunch of VERY different style dresses to hopefully appeal to all styles and dress codes.

SPRING WEDDING GUEST DRESSES

REVOLVE

Revolve seems to be a pretty polarizing retailer. You either love it or you hate it. Either way, they have a great selection of wedding guest dresses – including the ones we are wearing in the pic above! (Rebecca’s Saylor Dress, Catherine’s Bardot Dress). Here are a few of our favorite options available right now.

SPRING WEDDING GUEST DRESSES

ANTHROPOLOGIE

I have to admit that it has been a while since I shopped on Anthropologie! But when I polled my instagram followers and asked what their go-to retailers for wedding guest dresses were, so many people said Anthro. And DANG. I have been missing out!!! For a while I have had trouble getting inspired or seeing something that really *wows* me and now I know where all the good stuff has been hiding! There are so many fun occasion dresses and not just from in-house brand BHDLN. Now I just need more special occasions.

Here are a few that really caught my eye, but their whole wedding shop is great.

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Fashion Lifestyle Wedding

Black Wedding Guest Dresses For Fall and Winter Weddings

Be the best dressed at your November and December weddings with these stunning black dress options.

black wedding guest dress

You can’t go wrong with black for weddings during any season, but they are a classic for fall and winter weddings. Black isn’t boring, it’s classic. When you pick the right dress it can also make a serious statement. One of our most requested items are always dresses for wedding guests, so we are going to start bringing you regular posts with our current picks!

So our picks for black wedding guest dresses seems like the right place to start! We’ve scoured our favorite sites and retailers to pick out some of our favorites for you guys, but if you want to do some browsing of your own, here are the best places to shop.

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Wedding Guest Edit: Zebra Print Maxi Dress

This would make the perfect dress for fall weddings or special events.

ASOS Design Maxi Dress The Crystal Press Fashion

It feels GOOOOOD to get dressed up again. Like, really good. If you’re like me you really leaned into loungewear over the past year and a half and LOVED IT. I have bought more sweat suits, knitwear and t-shirts than ever before and fully leaned into making the fashionable. Because I do truly believe you can make a LOOK out of sweats.

BUT, as of late, I have been really excited to get dressed up, create new outfits and have just generally rediscovered my love for styling. I reallyyy felt it when I wore the orange dress to my sister-in-laws rehearsal dinner a few weeks ago, and the momentum has kept up ever since. I got really excited for our shoot with Halle of Wild Heart Creative, because it had been a while since Catherine and I created content together just for fun.

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Spotlight on: Orange Wedding Guest Dresses

Is Orange your color? Have you never worn it? If you said yes to either answer, this post is for you.

[ this post was written in August 2021 but edited with updated selects in August 2022]

ORANGE WEDDING GUEST DRESS

When I took to insta-stories with an ASOS haul to help me figure out what to wear to my sister-in-laws rehearsal dinner, I was blown away that so many people loveddddd the orange dress option! If you’ve been a follower around here for any amount of time, you know that I tend to stick to black or neutrals for basically all of my clothing.  But lately, I have been inspired to branch out with new colorful pieces, and was so glad I decided to add this orange dress to my cart as an option for the rehearsal dinner. (more…)

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Style Edit for Spring & Summer Brides-To-Be

white dresses for brides

I was helping my sister-in-law find some dresses, suits and white pieces to wear on her bachelorette and all of a sudden I had rounded up almost 30 pieces, so here we are! I soooo miss planning for all things wedding related. The Crystal Press was only a few months old when I got married, so I didn’t get to chronicle the whole process for myself here. When Catherine got married, she did things a little less traditional and I’m not even sure if she wore anything white on her bach. *edit, I looked, she did, once* So, give me a reason to help out a bride-to-be and I’m THERE.

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The Best Bridesmaids Gifts for Every Bride

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You can tell at first glance that Catherine and I had completely different aesthetics at our wedding! Cath had a chic sequins Jenny Packham gown and us bridesmaids all wore black. I had a more traditional wedding, where I wore my mom’s dress and my bridesmaids wore various shades of ivory and champagne. (See all of the details from Catherine’s wedding HERE and from my Homestead Wedding HERE.)

One thing we both had in common was how much we love our bridesmaids! We both wanted to find the perfect gifts to show our girls how happy we were that they were a part of our special day. Catherine gave us all face masks for day-after revival and diptyque candles – our fave! I gave my bridesmaids wrap bracelets that they wore on the wedding day and a little box of goodies for the weekend. We both toasted our girls with Veuve on the magical days, of course!

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Reb’s 5 Year Anniversary Photos

this post first appeared on sartorial meanderings on july 25, 2020.

Okay, so I couldn’t resist a sneak peek at our photos on IG and in this post on my personal blog – featuring the wrap dress, BUT HERE ARE EVEN MORE!

We shot these photos with the lovely Halle Kennon a few weeks ago, and I have been dying to share them ever since. If you have read the past few posts, you know I ordered three dresses from Rent The Runway and couldn’t decide which one to wear, so I wore all three! {More about Rent the Runway and Why I am Loving it, in this post, as well.}  From the dresses, to the location, to the shots that Halle captured, this shoot turned out exactly as I had imagined it! Considering that all of my photos for TCP & RP are usually all black, simple and minimal, I wanted to try something different for this shoot and I am SO glad I did.

I don’t have much more rambling to do, as the photos speak for themselves but just one quick suggestion. If you have an upcoming couples shoot, I recommend checking out pinterest beforehand for inspo (pin this post for later!) because the photos where we used some inspiration that Halle found turned out much better than John and I just wandering around in the field! Sometimes a little direction goes a long way. Don’t get me wrong, we did capture some great photos at the beginning, but it helps to change up the posing to get a little variety.

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Cathclaire Lifestyle Wedding

Surprise, Cathclaire is Pregnant!

After hiding this news from you guys with lots of old photos, unique angles, and dummy drinks – Kev and I are beyond excited to finally share this big life update with you all! 

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The past couple of months have been a whirlwind. Around July 4, I found out that I was pregnant and it was quitethe surprise. Kevin and I have always wanted kids, but in my mind I was going to become a parent in a couple of more years. Obviously the big man upstairs had bigger plans for us so we are embracing this surprise with open arms and a side of nausea!

Once we got the news, I officially declared that summer was over (the heat was not my friend, for the first time in my life) and that winter needed to hurry up. Why did I crave winter time, you ask? Well, I was really sick for a couple of weeks and who wants to be in the summer heat watching everyone drink Coronas when all you can think about is throwing up? The answer is no one. Between the nausea and the hormones, winter was looking like my new BFF. I should also take this time to clarify that pre-pregnancy, the only thing I liked about winter was Christmas aka nothing weather related. 

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Wedding Tips: Planning Your Engagement Photos

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Photos by Kaytee Lauren

One of my favorite parts of wedding planning was styling and shooting my engagement photos with my photographer and friend, Kaytee Lauren. Aside from the usual selfie and occasional iPhone photo, this was the first time that my fiancé at the time (now husband, Kevin) could join in on the professional photoshoot fun that I do constantly creating content for Cathclaire and here with Reb on The Crystal Press. And what a better time to do it than to celebrate being engaged?

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Cathclaire Tips: How to Choose Your Wedding Dress

To all of the brides out there planning a wedding from home, do not get discouraged! Catherine found her dress online and it was picture perfect. Read on for her tips about finding the right dress <3

While choosing your wedding dress is the most fun part of wedding planning, it can be one task that the bride (YOU!) doesn’t prepare properly for to maximize your wedding dress dreams potential!! Here are our 6 tips on how to choose your wedding dress! 

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