Bride squad sashes

A sash is the only thing a bride squad wears that needs no measuring, and that is why this page is the biggest one on the site. Sets here are cut for a group of seven more often than for any other number, which is one bride and six others, so a party of nine ends up buying a twelve-pack rather than a seven and two spares. That is usually the right call anyway. Spares bought separately rarely match: the satin is a shade off, the lettering is a different font, and the two women wearing the odd ones out are in every photograph.

Read the wording before the colour. A set photographed as one BRIDE band and six that say something else is a different order from twelve identical bridesmaid sashes, and only one of those leaves the bride distinguishable in a crowded bar. Satin creases in a suitcase and glitter sheds on a black dress, so the sashes want to come out of the packaging the night before rather than an hour before, and the glitter ones want to go on last. Where a pack on this page names a colour, the swatch on the card is painted from that name, which is worth checking against the photograph: rose gold, blush and champagne cover a wider range of pinks than the words suggest.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad rundown, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.