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My wedding faux pas

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MusicMenu · 05/05/2021 17:00

It was years ago, I wonder if the bride cared enough to still remember?

I was unexpectedly invited to a wedding of someone I was part of a mutual interest group with. Both of us, I'd say were on the fringes of the group, not particularly friends, hence my surprise.

Anyway in the days leading up to the wedding, just making conversation and pretending to be more excited about the wedding than I was, I asked what colour the bridesmaids were wearing. "Pink". In my head that meant pastel pink, although there's no sensible reason why I thought that.

Seperately, I was deliberating over what to wear. As it wasn't the kind of wedding I wanted to spend £££ on, it came down to a black and white dress or a fuchsia dress I already owned. I ruled out the black/white on because, wedding (yes inspired by another thread).

On the day I turned up in exactly the same colour as the three adult bridesmaids. It was just a coincidence, but OMG I'd specifically asked what they'd be wearing only days before.

I've hardly seen the bride since and I often wonder if this is why! Would you have been very offended?

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BrilliantBetty · 05/05/2021 20:08

Well my MiL wore all black to our wedding. During a heatwave mid summer. I thought it was a pretty brave snub.

BrilliantBetty · 05/05/2021 20:09

Our= mine and DH (not me and MIL getting hitched!)

modgepodge · 05/05/2021 20:11

Several people turned up wearing a similar shade of blue to my bridesmaids, I thought nothing of it. I once wore a dress to a wedding and the flower were wearing very similar ones! The adult bridesmaids were wearing a slightly different colour and style, but mine was almost identical to the flower girls 😂 the bride thought it hilarious thankfully.

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PattyPan · 05/05/2021 20:16

Placemarking so I can find out about @Chatanooga1’s complex relationship Grin

Elouera · 05/05/2021 20:20

At my own wedding, my tiny, petite size 4 cousin wore a white, skin tight dress! I thought it a very odd choice, but it was far from a wedding style dress and I can only assume she never knew it wasn't usually done. I0yrs on, I certainly remember it, but despite being even closer now, never thought to bring it up or worry about it!

Sandunesandseashells · 05/05/2021 20:31

@MusicMenu

I have a friend who met her husband at his engagement party...

Must be business partner?

My sister met her 2nd husband whilst on her 1st honeymoon...

(Sorry for derailing)

MaverickDanger · 05/05/2021 20:37

My SIL decided that she wasn’t going to wear a traditional white wedding dress, but didn’t tell anyone her plans.

She ended up wearing a beautiful lace peach knee length dress...along with two other guests.

One of the waiters later asked another guest who the bride was.

babbaloushka · 05/05/2021 20:50

@Chatanooga1

In the 80s my then partner got married to a woman that no one likes. She was quite horrible to her husband to be and we had no idea what he saw in her.

It transpired he has got her pregnant and was doing the ‘ right thing’ in his eyes, although we didn’t know this until after the wedding.

His mother my partners aunt was given the task of telling his side of the family that the bridesmaids were to be egg yolk yellow and no one was to wear a yellow dress.

Back then it was unheard of to demand what people could or could not wear so I did as I was told and bought a lovely navy dress.

Then I bought an egg yellow bag and shoes and a navy and hat! It was the 80s! 😀

I couldn’t give a stuff what she thought!

That was a treat to read, their family tree must be a bloody wreath.
AliceMcK · 05/05/2021 20:51

My ExH is with a woman who was a guest at our wedding. Apparently they use to joke about the fact I still slept (about 8years after we split) in the bed set she bought us. Not sure why they thought that, I actually gave it to my ExHs previous partner before me the week after we got married, it was ugly and cheap, I’m a complete snob when it comes to bedding and towels. The previous partner before me was my DSDs mum, she thought it was amusing they talked about it. She was the one who asked me if the set they were talking about was the same one I gave her. It was my DSD who told her that they talked about it, apparently on a regular basis🤷🏼‍♀️

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 05/05/2021 20:59

Grim @AliceMcK

AliceMcK · 05/05/2021 21:17

@RogueMNerKnowsNoShame

Grim *@AliceMcK*
Not as much as being married to him 😂
TaraR2020 · 05/05/2021 21:37

I've done this twice :/

Once, without bride's knowledge I'd known what bridesmaid was wearing but my dress was a different colour so didn't occur to me until someone at the reception asked if I was a bridesmaid - the colours looked verrrry similar under the lights!

Luckily bride didn't care and we're still good friends.

Second time I could only find a suitable dress in the same colour that I knew bridesmaids dresses would be. I rang thr bride in a panic the week before because I was trying to panic buy alternatives...she also didn't care, dresses were different lengths for a start. Also still really good friends.

I'd say if you were a fringe friend you were just filling numbers and the dress you wore had no effect.

merryhouse · 05/05/2021 22:09

presumably chatanooga was typing on a small screen and has inadvertently missed out the word "cousin" Grin

underneaththeash · 05/05/2021 22:16

One of my friends asked me to do a reading at their wedding - I was delighted to be asked. On the eve of the wedding her dad asked me what I was reading - I'd assumed that she'd chosen something to read and she'd assumed that I'd chose something. It was about 16 years ago, so Wifi was a bit sporadic and in the end I had my mum fax me something!

Janaih · 05/05/2021 22:24

Also here for clarification of @Chatanooga1's set up.

OhWhyNot · 05/05/2021 22:32

I turned up to a wedding in a cerise pink dress.

It was abroad and I thought it would look nice against my tan and in the sun (it did)

I didn’t read the bit on the invitation asking guests to dress in pale colours Confused

Yes I do stand out on the photos

Chatanooga1 · 05/05/2021 23:07

My partners COUSIN!

Oops! I omitted the word cousin! Grin

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 05/05/2021 23:20

I went to a wedding where the Bride zilla insisted on long evening dresses for the female guests. I duly rocked up in the only article like this I owned, which was a bridesmaid dress from another wedding, and of course it was the same as the other bridesmaids dresses because OMG can I ever just catch a break and go to a wedding and have a nice time without spending a billion quid on a frock I'll never wear again??

Luckily the other BMs thought it was hilarious and kept trying to get me to do all their jobs, of which there were many...

Daydrambeliever · 05/05/2021 23:29

@Chatanooga1

My partners COUSIN!

Oops! I omitted the word cousin! Grin

🤣 Thank god!
cakebythepound1234 · 06/05/2021 00:03

I don't know anyone who'd be offended by this. I had a very light blush wedding dress, the only people who knew it wasn't white were my friends who'd come with me to try dresses on. On the day, both my stepmom and MIL had blush dresses on. Couldn't have been less bothered, and actually the photos of us and our parents looks lovely because of the similar shades of pink next to my husbands blue suit. If the colour of a guests clothes on their wedding day offends the bride and groom and ruins their day, it can't be that great a wedding.

museumsandgalleries666 · 06/05/2021 00:26

@AppleAppleAppleApple

What’s egg yellow?
Have you ever seen an egg yolk?
81Byerley · 06/05/2021 01:30

Years ago I helped my friend with her small wedding. She was 8 months pregnant and wore a full length turquoise dress. I wore a short dress, white with butterflies embroidered on it . The taxi driver thought I was the bride, which the bride thought was funny. She had helped me choose my dress. It hadn't occurred to either of us that I shouldn't wear white!

PopAyetheSailorMam · 06/05/2021 01:50

I’d have laughed and made you be in at least one wedding party picture.

ItsCokeFFS · 06/05/2021 08:13

@AppleAppleAppleApple

what's egg yellow?

Surely you can work this out?

The poster has even helpfully included the phrase "egg yolk yellow" in her post.

AppleAppleAppleApple · 06/05/2021 08:33

@ItsCokeFFS not really no, the eggs I eat have lots of different coloured yolks, hence my asking. If I could work it out I wouldn’t have asked would I? 🙄

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