a white dress and white shoes with a red bow around the dress
Junior Bridesmaids can wear the same colors as your adult bridesmaids. In fact, many designers are offering a junior bridesmaid version of their regualr bridesmaids dresses. One designer, Alexia Designs has a very beautiful selection of junior bridesmaids dresses which match their bridesmaids dresses.
If the bridesmaids dresses are colours like regency, violet or blue I would say a Teal dress. Teal compliments silver extremely well.
Yes I guess so
It is suitable for bridesmaids to wear black dresses. While this was previously a color associated with funerals, there is no fashion ruling that it is not appropriate throughout the year for a wedding to include black bridesmaid dresses. It's now become prosaic for bridesmaids to wear black dresses.
the mother of the bride should wear red because it color coordinates well.
The mother of the bride is definitely defying tradition by wearing black but this is the 21st century and there are lots of black/white theme weddings. The mother of the groom could wear the traditional beige or champagne to coordinate with the mother's choice of color. I am not sure what "candy apple" means. Is that green? If so, then she could choose a color more in line with the bridesmaids' dresses and wear lime, jade, hunter green or sage. If it candy apple is red, then the MOG could choose red, burgundy, wine, cinnamon.
* If your step daughter's Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids are wearing long dresses then you should wear one in a color that will go well with the color of their dresses (not the same color.) If the girls in the wedding party are wearing short dresses then you should as well. If you don't want to pay a great deal of money for a dress you can rent some beautiful dresses from the wedding shop and the saleswomen there will be glad to help you.
MOBs and MOGs generally wear an outfit that they like, and then corsages are worn by them and the bridesmaids, the corsages matching the men's boutonnieres. The good MOBs and MOGs are careful to not wear colors that clash with the bridesmaids dresses. No one, but NO . . . ONE should dress up and make up in competition to the bride, who should be the "prettiest of them all".
The mother of the bride must wear a bright coloured dress or suit to show happiness and is also a sign of good luck for a happy marriage
Bridesmaids dresses are a much-hated tradition for girls who have to shell out a couple hundred bucks for a dress they will wear once and then drop off at the nearest Goodwill. If you're a bride, do your girls a favor and consider an alternative to the usual overpriced, questionably attractive bridesmaids' dresses. Look for a reasonably priced dress they would actually wear again. You could also give the girls a color and tell them to find any dress they like, as long as it matches your color scheme. Your bridesmaids will thank you for being considerate of their budgets!
The mothers dress to compliment the bride, not outshine her. So, the dress should not be white, longer or more formal than the bride's. Light colors, light neutrals or something in the same color family as the bridesmaids' dresses are good choices.
The critical thing is that she shouldn't take attention away from the bride. Everything else is largely irrelevant (though ideally she should neither wear the exact same color as the bridesmaids nor something that clashes hideously with it).It's pretty common for there to be at least a few photos of the wedding party and the family together (it's also fairly likely that at least some of the bridesmaids will be family, and therefore in the family photo even if there isn't specifically one of the family with all the bridesmaids), and you don't want the mother to be mistaken for a bridesmaid, or for the colors to clash too much.