Your bridesmaid should have the dress tailored by the boutique’s in-house seamstress or go to one recommended by the designer, as they’ll be familiar with the designer’s dresses and know creative fixes to make the dress fit. For example, the seamstress can add a shawl across the back and shoulders if the dress can't be zipped up or cut a too-long hem to add panels to the side seams of the bodice. Other adjustments like adding tulle straps to a strapless dress can help provide support for an expanding bust. What’s more, a trend or style (say, polka dots or maxidresses) you might not typically gravitate toward might just become the MVP of your closet during those nine months: “I loved wearing stripes when I got really large, which was odd, but I kind of loved how much it accentuated my giant belly,” recalls Stella Bugbee of her surprising pregnancy-wardrobe workhorse. “I had a stretchy navy-and-white cute pink two piece set striped dress that became a long shirt when my stomach got to be super big.”