Avoid wrap dresses, never wear frills or floaty fabrics and pastel prints are always a no! Here's...

There’s nothing like a Really Big Wedding for giving you good ideas, so, when the season kicked off with the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster at the start of June, everyone was keen to see what the guests were wearing.

Most of the female guests at the ceremony in Chester wore dresses - including plenty of those floral prints that were supposed to have been retired READ MORE: As we enter the summer party season, seven ways to avoid the nightmare of wearing what she's wearing Advertisement As a general rule, the older you are, the better served you are by a structured clean silhouette — flimsiness does you no favours — and for now, longer is always better: if a dress calls itself a ‘midaxi’, you’re already looking twice as modern as you would in a knee grazer.

Something plain is often the choice of the mother of the bride and a bold fit and flare coat dress is both elegant and guaranteed to stand out. For her son’s wedding, the Dowager Duchess wore a fitted fuchsia pink coat dress with clashing red slingback heels and a bright red feather firework fascinator. For something similar try Phase Eight’s sienna tux style dress in lemon plus red slingbacks .

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