yellow open back dress Backless Mermaid Sparkly V-neck Long Evening Prom Dresses, MR9220 Made with soft satin and featuring a special bead design Yellow Satin Mermaid Prom Dresses

To customize them, the bows are removable and you could replace them with ribbon in your wedding color palette

And so, we turned our frowns upside down, made lemons from lemonade, and decided to spend an ungodly number of hours scouring the darkest corners of the Internet, to bring you semi-affordable, not-hideous, average-sized dresses, in the form of this list

But if you thought the end of summer also meant the end of the dress, let us remind you that there are a number of fabulous fall frocks just waiting to be paired with your favourite pair of autumn-ready chunky loafers

Like this Winter version

There are colorways for every season and every personality, from soft neutrals to bold jewel tones