When you are planning your Outer Banks wedding, you must give careful consideration to the type of wedding gown you will wear since you are dealing with sand and outdoor weather conditions not normally found in a traditional wedding.  However, you must also carefully consider what your bridesmaids are going to wear as well.

Fortunately, the days where the bride selects one style of gown for all of her bridesmaids is gone.  Nowadays, brides are giving their bridesmaids more say in what they will wear.

One very popular wedding trend is to select a dress the bridesmaid can wear after the wedding.  Too often, after the wedding, the gorgeously expensive bridesmaid dress simply hung in the closet, for a lack of opportunity to wear again.

Your bridesmaid must maneuver walking in the sand too at your beach wedding.  You don’t want them to have to hold up a long dress while traipsing in the sand.

A-line dresses look great on most body shapes and sizes and are very popular.  One of the most popular styles is a two-tone, two-piece cocktail length style.  Also popular styles include halter top dresses or those with criss-cross straps over the back.

While your Outer Banks beach wedding daily temperatures are quite warm through September and October, the nights can be cool, making the trend of having a shawl for your bridesmaid both popular and practical.

For more Outer Banks wedding tips, be sure to browse our site.  OBX Brides is here to provide you with the most up-to-date information for your Outer Banks destination wedding