Can you wear black to a wedding?

aliasojo

Person_one wrote: »

I've seen bigger women look absolutely stunning, don't write yourself off!

I wore a size 14 dress to the last wedding I went to, and I looked pretty darn good if I do say so myself! :rotfl:

I bet we can help you find something you'll feel nice in, there's far more out there in bigger sizes than there used to be, and there are things like Spanx which are miraculous!

Bless you!

I suspect my left leg is a size 14. :rotfl:


Ok I'm exaggerating a tad but it's been a long while since I was a size 14.

aileth

liney wrote: »

I was always told green is also bad luck unless the bride is Irish. Pearls are for tears, and red roses symbolise the groom's blood..

My mum wore green and my jewellery was pearls :rotfl:

Person_one

aliasojo wrote: »

Bless you!

I suspect my left leg is a size 14. :rotfl:


Ok I'm exaggerating a tad but it's been a long while since I was a size 14.

Ok, what size are we looking at? What sort of shape, good bits, bad bits, I bet we can find you something in about 10 minutes.

candygirl

Course you can hun!!I was Mother of the Bride at Easter n wore a black maxi dress with silver accessories Wearing white is bad though!!My Bro's gf came in a white dress, and kept saying "i hope nobody thinks i'm the bride!!" Silly cow!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Tropez

Person_one wrote: »

Traditionally, black was a colour for mourning and funerals, so wearing it to a wedding was a way of letting the couple know how you felt about them getting married. Women weren't supposed to wear red either, it was apparently a way of signalling that you were the groom's secret mistress! :eek:

The only real colour rule now is that you shouldn't wear white, only the bride is allowed a white dress at a wedding. Even that gets stretched a bit now though and its fine to wear patterned dresses with a lot of white in and so on.

It is all a bit weird, I'll grant you that.

It does seem rather weird. I was aware of the white thing but I had no idea about red! That's brilliant!

floss2

Errata wrote: »

Go for burgundy or navy, black is a bit obvious. Plum is the new colour for Autumn and Winter (apparently) so you might find something in that colour in Tesco/Asda/Primark/Matalan which won't cost a fortune.

I agree - Tesco do quite nice things for sizes that I'm too thin for as a 14

Ames

OP, give an idea of size and budget and as P1 says I'm sure we can help you find something.

Since we've moved to talking about etiquette and strange rules, isn't there one about which way up the buttonhole flower should be worn? I can't remember what it is though.

aliasojo

Person_one wrote: »

Ok, what size are we looking at? What sort of shape, good bits, bad bits, I bet we can find you something in about 10 minutes.

I'm ignoring you now. :rotfl:





I don't have good bits at the moment. That's not me being dismissive, it's just that most of me is 'affected' iyswim. So it's not like simply trying to disguise a big bum or cover a tum etc.

surfboard2

Have you had a look at ASOS Curve?

aliasojo

Ames wrote: »

OP, give an idea of size and budget and as P1 says I'm sure we can help you find something.

Noooo, I don't want to. :rotfl:

Budget...no idea. Cheap as poss I suppose as I expect I'll never wear it again.

Although if it was a choice between paying less and looking like a sack of spuds and paying more and looking like maybe only one or two spuds....I'd pay more.