And the Winning Outfit Is ...

Ladies, I just want to thank each and every one of you who commented on my last post. I hadn't the time to comment back or update you before leaving but I read all your comments (even the last-minute ones, as I had phone connectivity on vacation) and weighed in all your suggestions and I can't believe how much thought and time you put into helping me with my outfit choices. Also, I was surprised by the fact that many of you know exactly what's in my closet, meaning that you really read this stuff!

I had a great and relaxing vacation but a somewhat stressful trip back home, due to a monster storm that hit Miami just we were landing there to catch our connection to NYC. As a result we got home at 5 am this morning instead of the scheduled 11 pm yesterday evening. Our daughter came into our room around 7 full of energy and because I had left her for four days for the first time in my life, I couldn't pretend that I was sleeping (I really missed her too), so I got up.
All this to say that I need a little bit of time to get back into my post routine but I thought that you deserved to know what I wore to the wedding, since so many of you voted for a preferred outfit.
I have to say that I was completely clueless (not to say confused) before leaving, each of your comments made a valuable point in favor of one or another outfit, so that one minute I was leaning towards the first one, one minute after towards the second one. I was surprised to see how many of you liked the black option, so I was even more torn as the black Calypso dress all of a sudden became a runner-up. So I packed all the dresses with the exception of the navy Zara one and I hoped that I would have some kind of enlightment or at least a feeling once on location.
Which I had. It was very clear to me after the first two days that I shouldn't wear the long turquoise dress. First of all, the ceremony was really on the beach, and quite early (4.45). But more importantly, I got a sense of what people were going to wear the evening of the reharsal dinner, when almost all the female guests wore short (and not very "exotic") dresses. So my choice was between the first ruffled dress and the black one.
I also decided that I didn't want to wear black for the ceremony. It didn't feel right to wear black on a beach at that time of the day and I was right because only one young French girl showed up in a black dress and it didn't look appropriate (although it is difficult to tell what would have been perfectly appropriate because half of the wedding party, the French groom side, wore Kentucky Derby-like outfits, with parade of hats and kitten heels, and the other part, the American bride side, wore a much more relaxed interpretation of "casual beach wedding dressing" with Hawaian-style shirts worn by some of the male guests.)
Anyway, I did feel appropriate, pretty and beach-y. So here you go, the actual outfit, straight from the courtyard were we had cocktails before dinner:

As you can see I kept the accessories minimal (I am not a dangling earrings type of girl and I thought that the JCrew starfish necklace, even if on the smallish side, was perfect for the occasion). Many people complimented my dress and they also liked that my husband was wearing a matching pink and white shirt (not planned):

As you know I was fond of this dress and you know what? My husband liked it too this time around, go figure (when I tried it on hoping for a not-completely-disgusted look and he said that it was very pretty I was like "What? Couldn't you tell so the first time and save me all this?" but he was oblivious to ever seeing this dress before).
But, as much as I liked it for the beach part of the wedding evening, I changed into the black one for dinner and dancing (around the pool), with the excuse that I couldn't dance comfortably in thepink strapless (half true; I mean, I could have survived). So you see? You did convince me that the black was the one. Let's call it an ex-aequo.

OK, gotta go now. I will be back with pictures from our perfect beach gateway. Just want to thank you againg for your voting: your vote didn't change the world, probably, but it meant a lot to me and it was a lot of fun.

I liked both of them, but I decided to