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Kate Spade

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i don't think there is anything wrong with it. i guess my view on this is partially due to the fact that i just don't think that i personally would be upset about it if a guest wore white to MY wedding... as long as it wasn't a white dress that was more fancy/formal/extravagant etc. than my (the bride's) dress. in other words, as long as the guest wasn't purposefully trying to upstage me (the bride) no matter what the color of her dress.

speaking of inappropriate wedding attire... i've attended a wedding or two and witnessed guests wearing jeans (and not very nice ones at that). i am more offended by that lack of respect than any girl who wears a white dress.

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At our wedding, I think I had too much going on to care what color people were wearing.  Personally, I would not wear all white, but even if someone did wear a little white dress, I hardly think they would have "upstaged" me in my big ass princess wedding dress (been 7 years, my taste has definitly changed!).  I WAS offended, however, by my sister's best friend's choice of attire.  A neon green mini mini mini and then some more mini dress.  It was so slutty.  Unfortunately, when my friends/family talks about my wedding, her dress is one of the first things that comes up.



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It is ok to wear a white-based dress (as the one Farrah described) but it is just wrong to wear an all-white dress to a wedding.  Personally I don't think I would be offended if I were the bride, but it is proper etiquette to reserve white for the bride (if she chooses to wear white). 

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Cricket wrote:

A neon green mini mini mini and then some more mini dress.  It was so slutty.  Unfortunately, when my friends/family talks about my wedding, her dress is one of the first things that comes up.

oh lord, so true. At the wedding of one of my boyfriend's friends this summer, one girl showed up wearing this hideous trashy dress that was cut down to well below her ribs, with a short, ruffled skirt. And it wasn't even a deep vee where you can't see anything, either, though that would have been bad enough--her boobs were on nearly-full display, about to pop out at any moment. This was the kind of dress Nicolette Sheridan might show up somewhere in. I was absolutely astounded by the sight of someone in something so inappropriate.


And the kicker? The ceremony was a full Mass--AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO WEAR A COVER-UP IN THE CHURCH. I was horrified.


That being said, I agree that it's preferable to avoid white/ivory dresses, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. I remember someone this summer posted an ivory blazer over a different color dress that she wanted to wear to a wedding, and she got a lot of responses telling her not to do it--that seemed a little extreme to me. I mean, it was a BLAZER!



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I think it's wrong to wear a white dress. If I got married, I wouldn't worry about being "upstaged" by a guest of mine because everyone know -I'm- the hot bride (hehe, being overly confident there. ) but I do think that it's one of those things -- like, would you wear something similar to someone else, especially on a very special day? There are THOUSANDS of dresses out there the guest could have chosen, she certainly didn't have to chose a white dress like the bride.

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for me, it's really the style of the dress that counts, not the color.  i wouldn't have been offended by someone wearing a white eyelet sundress to my wedding, but i would have been annoyed by someone wearing a white formal dress or anything loud and flashy - ie head to toe electric colors, huge ruffles, etc. etc.  To me the general idea of not 'upstaging' the bride has more to do with not calling undue attention to yourself - like through your behavior (not drinking yourself into oblivion and harrassing other guests) and manner of dress than simply not wearing white.  It's just common courtesy, but if even if someone had been inappropriately dressed at our wedding, it wouldn't have mattered.  I never thought of my wedding as exclusively "my day" anyway.  We did it for each other and for our friends and family, and besides, everyone knew who the bride and groom were.

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MY SIL wore a white strapless fancy all lace overlay dress to my wedding. I found it so inappropriate. I thought it was a personal thing against me but then she wore the same dress to another wedding a month later that we were both attending for her other SIL that she does like so it must just be ignorance on her part. I think white is not appropriate at a wedding. (upstaging the bride)

-- Edited by mikacat at 09:54, 2005-10-02

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