If you want something fresh and informal for a registry office wedding then look no further than Watters’ lace dress and jacket combo. It’s so seamless that I first thought the jacket was the same length as the dress, but take a closer look and you’ll see it’s actually waist length with an oyster coloured satin ribbon. The dress is strapless, knee-length with scalloped neckline and hem.

Dress it up the same as the picture with large hair blooms, net hat and strappy sandals and you’ve got a great young look or lose them and accessorise with smart mary janes and neat stud earrings and you have a sophisticated older look.

Style 9049B (dress only 9041B) at Watters

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