Strange Request for a wedding?

londonsurrey

Maybe she has a phobia of hats. Like clowns, they're ostensibly supposed to be a children's party thing, but a notable number of children don't like them.

I do like fancifiers, although I've never tried one on. They are fascinating bits of nothing! Lol.

melancholly

andygb wrote: »

You are another "bundle of fun" aren't you?
I have never seen a wedding where the ladies are not wearing hats - respect to your MIL:D

i've been to a few where a couple of people have worn hats, but it really is the minority! at plenty of weddings no-one has worn one. i wouldn't ever choose to - for a start, it crushes you hair and then when you take it off to eat, you look silly!

i guess my friends'/families' weddings haven't been very posh...... i don't think i've ever been given a dress code at all!

Person_one

melancholly wrote: »

i've been to a few where a couple of people have worn hats, but it really is the minority! at plenty of weddings no-one has worn one. i wouldn't ever choose to - for a start, it crushes you hair and then when you take it off to eat, you look silly!

i guess my friends'/families' weddings haven't been very posh...... i don't think i've ever been given a dress code at all!

Truly posh people don't need to be told a dress code, they just know.

I think hats are de riguer for mothers of the bride and groom surely? Never been to a wedding where at least those two women weren't wearing them, and I'm certainly not posh at all! These days most people seem to go for fascinators though. Having something daft on your head at a wedding is traditional!

londonsurrey

Fascinators! That's the name! *palmface*

melancholly

Person_one wrote: »

Truly posh people don't need to be told a dress code, they just know.

I think hats are de riguer for mothers of the bride and groom surely? Never been to a wedding where at least those two women weren't wearing them, and I'm certainly not posh at all! These days most people seem to go for fascinators though. Having something daft on your head at a wedding is traditional!

even with the MOB and MOG, it's usually been facinator or some fancy headband. i'm thinking to one i went to this year and there was one woman in a hat, but she wasn't a relative. a few fancy hair clips, the odd fascinator but mainly just nicely done hair! (although plenty of men in military uniform which included a hat, but they didn't ever wear them indoors)

Taadaa

Bloody hate silly facsinators. I do like a proper tasteful hat, like a cute little pillbox. I asked that people wearing hats took them off during the ceremony. You always get some !!!! in a hat who obscures the view.

I had a see through white dress lady as well, my cousin's gf. Could see her thong through it. I wasn't bothered though, you'd be a pretty shoddy bride to be upstaged by a bit of dental floss on a flibbertygibbet.

londonsurrey

I remember seeing a guest dressed very revealingly. She arrived in a family group. While I think that a Rubenesque figure has a lot to plus points, squeezing it into a two piece outfit a couple of sizes too small does not do it any favours.

I must confess to staring in horrified fascination at the resultant sizeable muffin top overspill, thinking "Don't your family love you? Why didn't they say something?"

nickj_2

do eye brows and lashes count as facial hair ?

honeypop

nickj wrote: »

do eye brows and lashes count as facial hair ?

Lol. I have a vision of everyone taking it literally and everyone has NO facial hair at all, including the eyebrows and lashes! That would teach her!

pimento

I can't help but think that if you dislike your prospective guests so much, you don't forgo the reception and just get married on your own somewhere.