The best wedding guest dresses take you from the ceremony to the last dance without a second thought. Long, short or a jumpsuit, every design here works as well for a weekday registry office as for an evening reception, in colours you'll be happy to wear all day.<\/p>\n
Start with the invitation: the venue, the time of day and any dress code tell you most of what you need to know. For a daytime ceremony, crepe and matte chiffon are the safest bets; for an evening do, satin and bold prints come into their own. Whatever the wedding, a good guest dress comes down to three things: a fabric that won't crease, a cut you can walk and sit in, and a length that suits the venue. These styles work just as well for christenings, garden parties and family celebrations.<\/p>\n
A church ceremony or a sit-down dinner calls for a long dress<\/a>, and they make up around three quarters of this collection. For an outdoor drinks reception or a registry office wedding, a short dress<\/a> or a jumpsuit<\/a> is often the better choice. If it's an all-day affair, look at chiffon A-line styles first: they stay cool and comfortable through hours on your feet.<\/p>\n White and ivory are still reserved for the bride. Our ivory shades are meant for other occasions, or for weddings where the couple has said it's fine. Black, once off-limits, now works for evening weddings, especially softened with a print or a fabric with a little sheen. Beyond that, soft natural tones such as sage green<\/a>, terracotta<\/a>, navy<\/a> and dusty pink<\/a> look right at almost any wedding, summer or winter.<\/p>\n Ellebeline is a Parisian designer label sold exclusively through more than 250 partner boutiques across Europe. Each stockist carries its own selection, so find a boutique near you<\/a> and get in touch to check which styles and colours they have in store.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/evening-dresses\/wedding-guest\/","name":"Wedding guest dresses","slug":"wedding-guest","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":509,"meta":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/509"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellebeline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wedding guest etiquette: colours to wear and avoid<\/h2>\n
Try them on at a stockist<\/h2>\n