Wedding guest dresses can be arduous enough to source, never mind the best maternity wedding guest dresses. Unless you’re the bride or groom, finding something to wear to upcoming nuptials while adhering to the many codes and formalities can sometimes feel like mission impossible. Add your new and totally unfamiliar body shape to the mix and you might just send yourself into an early labour…
To save you from the stress – which, let’s be honest, as mum-to-be, we’ve already got more than enough of – we’ve done the hard work for you.
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Glamour’s Senior Beauty Editor, Elle Turner, and Freelance Fashion Editor, Charlie Teather, have both recently become new mums, and we found ourselves in this exact predicament more than a handful of times. With several weddings to attend that saw us on the hunt for bump-friendly occasion dresses that A) make us look and feel great, and B) were super comfy, we took on the challenge so you don’t have to.
“It’s so hard to find wedding guest dresses specifically for when you’re pregnant, but Club L London was one of the few places I came across with modern options designed to accommodate bumps, with non-frumpy silhouettes and pretty colours and patterns. Blue florals are a forever fave, but they also have loads of options in soft pinks, baby blues, butter yellows and more,” Elle says.
The Lita asymmetric maternity maxi dress you see her wearing above comes in four other colours, and also comes in a non-maternity shape (just in case you’re looking for summer wedding guest dresses sans bump!). Its premium stretch jersey hugs every curve, boasting a twisted, one-shoulder neckline and a heel-grazing hemline that you could easily pair with comfy heels or flats.
Elsewhere, if you don’t mind investing a bit more, Bumpsuit have a gorgeous brushed satin gown that drapes over your figure instead of hugging it. Bonus points: it would be perfect for postpartum, too.
Looking for something a bit more modest, or perhaps a spring wedding guest dress while it’s still cooler out? H&M have this balloon-sleeved maxi dress that looks far more expensive than its £65 price tag, while River Island have got you breastfeeding mums covered with this satin maternity wrap midi in baby pink. PSA: It’s currently on sale for £20.
So, while you might be contemplating how you’re going to get through the speeches and dancing without a glass of fizz in hand, you certainly shouldn’t be worrying about what to wear. There are plenty more bump-friendly wedding guest dress options available below, from both dedicated maternity brands as well as your favourite online clothing stores.
Why you can trust us
Glamour’s Senior Beauty Editor, Elle Turner, and Freelance Fashion Editor, Charlie Teather, have both become first-time mums over the last year or so, and – alongside, you know, prepping for one of humankind’s toughest physical feats and the subsequent life-altering reality of a tiny new human to care for 24/7 – rediscovering how to dress a body that was changing every single day posed a real challenge.
We didn’t want to lose our personal style identities, but we also wanted to celebrate and not just ‘disguise’ this incredible moment in our lives. And if we were finding this balance hard to strike, after working our whole adult lives in the fashion and magazine industry, we figured others must be too. So, we made it something of a personal/professional mission to compile the ultimate maternity fashion guides. If for nothing more than for us to refer back to if/when we ever do this pregnancy thing again, because (spoiler alert) baby brain is no joke, people…
How we tested the best maternity wedding guest dresses
Elle and Charlie used their own pregnancies as the perfect excuse to trial run the best maternity styles out there and compile this edit. We all shopped from independent, designer and high street maternity brands during our second and third trimesters (with varying success), and have also asked our well-dressed pregnant pals and new mums for their top tips to find high-quality maternity wear. Not to mention, we’ve scoured Instagram for the ultimate inspiration too. For mums-to-be, Glamour‘s edit of the best maternity wedding guest dresses of 2025 is essential reading…
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