You can wear the dress for a while, take pics, and then put on your favourite dress. It’s all about making someone happy, right.
Once I wore a really nasty dark maroon dress my MIL bought me, just so she doesn’t feel hurt and on top she wanted me to do two braids and believe me I did that too just to make her happy…I looked like a clown and I actually served tea to all her desi friends (very fashionable ones) in that nasty dress and two braids but she was really happy and also she stopped bothering me after that.