Ask any fashion editor to share their favourite high street stores, and I can almost guarantee that Zara will be among them. A fashion oasis delivering on everything from trend-led pieces to timeless classic styles, there are few high-street stores that offer quite as much variety, newness, and, let’s be honest, instant add-to-basket appeal as the Spanish fashion brand. I can say from my own personal experience that whenever I have an invite roll in, and I find myself questioning, ‘What am I going to wear?’ Zara is often my first port of call—even when it comes to wedding guest dressing.

Because, while at first glance, a wedding may seem like the perfect occasion to splurge on a luxe one-of-a-kind outfit, if you were to look at things from a practical standpoint, I’d actually argue the opposite. As many of us rarely get the opportunity to wear and rewear the wedding guest dresses we painstakingly spent so long searching for, they often sit languishing at the back of our wardrobes after use, not to mention never truly delivering on their usually elevated price tag.

By comparison, in true Zara style, the high street hero not only delivers on the chicest styles ideal for more elevated weddings and events but also on pieces that can often be re-worked throughout the year for a whole host of different occasions. I recently bought a satin slip dress, which I wore to a friend’s wedding during spring, yet all it took was a quick switch-up of accessories to make it the perfect dress for packing in my holiday suitcase a few months later.