Modest dress for the - ahem - mature maid of honor.

My friends Daniel and Michelle are getting married in July and I am honored to be Michelle's Matron of Honor. Michelle is a very easygoing bride and basically told me to find something that looked good and buy it.
Sounds great, right?

Except then you begin a mad search for a modest, age-appropriate, and pretty dress that would suit a Tridentine High Mass in July.

Riiiight. You'd sooner find Richard Dawkins in a confessional or Nancy Pelosi volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center.

After much hand-wringing, I came across Coco Myles.
This online site allows you to choose the fabric, beading, top and bottom to your dress.
I chose a short-sleeved eggplant number with beading and a ballgown skirt in a lightweight georgette fabric, all for $178!

You can see it here.

Coco Myles gets excellent customer reviews and I am sure I'll be quite happy with my dress, which arrives tomorrow! Yay!

If you need a formal dress, you might want to check this place.
(They also have a section of "Celebrity-Inspired" dresses which are great if you're rail thin and 20.)