To get ready for the upcoming wedding season, today we're showing you some of our favorite maxi wedding guest dresses. We think a stylish maxi dress is a perfect solution if you're wondering what to wear to your next wedding.
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Wedding Guest Maxi Dresses
Image credits and shopping sources: 1. Pink Floral Tiered Maxi Dress from Abercrombie and Fitch 2. Astr the Label ellow Floral Maxi Dress 3. Sage Green Dress from Lulus 4. Blue Floral Dress from Petal + Pup
We've included over 60 maxi dresses in this edited collection of wedding guest dresses. We've tried to include lots of options and different price points to suit every wedding guest's budget and style. These maxi dresses offer timeless sophistication and were chosen for the current wedding season. These dresses can be accessorized casually or formally to suit everything from outdoor daytime weddings to evening formal affairs to help you be the best-dressed guest. We think a pretty maxi dress can suit any type of wedding dress code if the fabric and accessories are right.
Why Maxi Dresses are Perfect for Wedding Guests
Maxi dresses are great options if you're not quite sure of the dress code or formality for the wedding. If the wedding invitation doesn't specify a dress code, these long wedding guest dresses with classic silhouettes often strike the perfect balance. Maxi dresses are style chameleons that can look just as good at laid-back outdoor weddings and destination weddings, as they do with a good dose of sparkly jewelry for semi-formal and formal wedding guest attire. A maxi dress is the perfect dress to choose when formal wedding guest dresses might be too formal, but midi dresses and cocktail dresses might not be formal enough. The shop section below shows off a few favorites, updated for this season's weddings.
Long Dresses for Every Wedding Season
Each season of wedding dress codes presents a chance to wear a different style of maxi dress. For the summer wedding season, lightweight fabrics, floral wedding guest dresses, and sleeveless or spaghetti strap maxi dresses are the perfect choice. In the fall season, you may wish to choose maxi dresses with heavier fabrics in darker shades that reflect the changing season. See our picks specifically for fall maxi dresses for wedding guests for more ideas. For winter weddings, wearing long sleeve dresses and maxi dresses in rich jewel tones and luxurious fabrics is a great option to stay warm and stylish.
How to Style Long Dresses for Wedding Guests
Maxi dresses can be a great choice for a spring or summer weddings and can suit wedding events that run from dressy casual, and beach casual, to more formal. We especially love maxi dresses for beach wedding guest dresses because they often have a flowy style that perfectly suits a beachy venue.
To style a maxi dress for a wedding just pick some strappy sandals and high heels, and some sparkling jewelry or statement earrings, and a chic clutch to create the perfect outfit.
We recommend that you simply your accessories according to the time of day and formality and pick a maxi-dress like these that has some substance and dressy fabrics. Just stay away from anything to casual in a guaze or jersey material that might look more like a beach cover-up!
If you are a bride looking for a maxi dress wedding dress or a maxi dress for bridesmaids check out our bridesmaid dresses, and long white dresses post!
To see more posts with long Dresses for wedding guests check our these other formal gown looks.
Where to Find Maxi Dresses that are Suitable to Wear to a Wedding
If you prefer to shop by color, check out our picks for blue dresses fin longer lengths, pink dresses , and maxi dresses with floral prints.
Here are a few of our hand-picked maxi dresses for weddings. We also find that shops like ASOS, and Nordstrom, have beautiful elegant maxi dresses to wear for weddings and a guest or as a bridesmaid. See the semi-formal cocktail dress picks and dressy casual daytime wedding guest dress picks too. Here are our picks for where to shop based on certain criteria.
Maxi Dresses Under $100
Lulus has an amazing selection of maxi dresses that are suitable for weddings. Best of all, most of them are under $100. These dresses are perfect for bridesmaids, or to wear for formal events.
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Designer Maxi Dress Picks
Revolve always has some of the chicest styles for dresses from top designers. So if you're looking for a really stunning maxi dress, this is a great place to shop. We especially love the floral dresses from Yumi Kim! Also, check out these picks for the best wedding guest dresses at Revolve.
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Stylish and Modern Maxi Dresses
ASOS always has unique dresses that are on the cutting edge of trends. Many maxi dresses they feature for wedding guests are less than $100. We especially love the long-sleeved maxi dresses they offer and the unique colors they show season after season.
Classic Maxi Dresses for Every Occasion
There are just so many great wedding guest dresses at Nordstrom. We especially love the brands Eliza J and Dress the Population for long maxi styles for weddings. They feature lots of wrap dresses and classic silhouettes that make for timeless wedding guest style.
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Past Features
This image was from an older article and features a dress that is now out of stock. We keep it here for image credits and continuity in case you've reached this page from an image search. This article was originally published on February 21, 2015, and updated most recently on April 9, 2024.
Pictured gown Open Side Maxi Dress from ASOS. See more maxi dresses from ASOS.
