Wedding dress code

Stephb1986_2

Could be worse you could go to a funeral with all your chest area out like my cousins now wife did at my grandads funeral, she nearly had everyone's eyes out with them!

Person_one

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There are very few events where I think women should wear dresses / skirts, but weddings are one of them - in any but the most unusually informal of weddings, I'd definitely wear a skirt or dress. And definitely, definitely not cropped leggings!

I agree that leggings are definitely too casual, but I think a nicely cut formal trouser suit is fine for a wedding.

Lots of older (and some younger!) women have very good reasons for wishing to cover up certain parts of their bodies, and baring legs shouldn't be considered compulsory any more than baring cleavage, or upper arms, or backs are.

System

Stephb1986 wrote: »

Could be worse you could go to a funeral with all your chest area out like my cousins now wife did at my grandads funeral, she nearly had everyone's eyes out with them!

Ahh funerals i have covered..got a decent black dress that covers me well enough. Thankfully not had to wear it and hope not to for the forseeable future.

lostinrates

Any wrote: »

And the same goes for colours.... I've been to several weddings where brides wore pink, mushroom and even red.
sure....I didn't wear white or cream!

Wedding dress is a wedding dress, no matter what the era I think. The point of a wedding dress is to know it is a wedding dress, just because it is white does not give it a wedding dress stamp in my mind. Otherwise we would never wear white, just in case we could be mistaken for a bride. Even in the middle of an office.

i'm less sure I agree with the era thing. But it's not an area I pretend to know a lot about. I have an impression it's not quite so, afterall, when you look at ahold pictures of brides you can often tell 'when' the wedding was roughly by the style of the dress being similar to the style of the day, but few of us wear anything remotely similar to a 'traditional' sterotypical wedding dress to coffee with friends or supper with the OH even somewhere very fancy!

Rhetorical question...... no need to answer. I am foreign, not thick. It was something to make people smile how men have no idea.

I had no intention of Implying you were unintelligent. Forgive me for the transgression of not having made that clear! I was smiling while I replied. I thought my replies made it clear I was poking fun at myself as much, but I accept it perhaps doesn't read so. (Fwiw I am not married to a Brit, and am only half Brit myself, just 'scrape in' as parent is half english (well, quarter english and quarter welsh) ....I am far from hostile to 'foreigners'.

Mojisola

Any wrote: »

The point of a wedding dress is to know it is a wedding dress,

Not necessarily. There wasn't anything about the dress I got married in that would shout "wedding dress".

It's my "wedding dress" because it's the dress I was wearing when I got married.

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

I agree that leggings are definitely too casual, but I think a nicely cut formal trouser suit is fine for a wedding.

Lots of older (and some younger!) women have very good reasons for wishing to cover up certain parts of their bodies, and baring legs shouldn't be considered compulsory any more than baring cleavage, or upper arms, or backs are.

I think I go with this, unless its an evening wear reception where a long dress would do. Fwiw, though its dangerously casual for not very formal weddings I have become a huge fan of a smarter maxi dress. It covers everything, I can wear flats and so don't need a stick. When I wear heels with a shorter more formal day wear dress I am always conscious if I need a walking stick that day. I think I'd probably be lead by what the men are wearing. I'd feel wrong in a trouser suit if men were in morning dress. If they were in tongue suits I would feel ok in a elegant, well fitting trouser suit with beautiful and feminine accessories at a day time only wedding.

lostinrates

Mojisola wrote: »

Not necessarily. There wasn't anything about the dress I got married in that would shout "wedding dress".

It's my "wedding dress" because it's the dress I was wearing when I got married.

My sister got married in a cream suit she wore afterwards for many summer functions, and wore the dress for a couple of tv appearances. I wore an old dress of mine that was evening wear. (I wouldn't have worn it if we had had a big wedding though, I wanted a very, very dark cream....more milky coffee coloured dress for that actually, so I could use it as evening wear afterwards). But none of those options were 'wedding dressy'. My sister's beautiful suit would have easily been upstaged by a showier cream or white dress.

koalamummy

Mojisola wrote: »

Don't you have any photos of the day?

Yes we do have but have never actually looked at them. They are in the attic somewhere I think.

Any

Mojisola wrote: »

Not necessarily. There wasn't anything about the dress I got married in that would shout "wedding dress".

It's my "wedding dress" because it's the dress I was wearing when I got married.

That is fair enough, but then you cannot think badly of people who look similar to you..and that is the point. By just having other colour by cream you are not going to ensure you will not outshine the bride (without even trying, like if you were any floaty dress and she is wearing a simple suit for example).
And that is the point I was making.

FatVonD

Any wrote: »

and even red.

That would be me! And my sister in law. Floor length. Satin. At my wedding :cool:

I have to admit reading through this thread I've personally made just about every faux pas going from overly-short t-shirt dress with parrots on it (it was the 90s ) to black teamed with leopard print. But even I wouldn't wear white or cream to a wedding...