to wear silver and black at a wedding?

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Hi, I have a friend's wedding in August and have been invited to the wedding and the reception. i have seen a gorgeous dress on the Coast's website. it is Silver with a black bow belt around the waist. The silver isn't shiny - it's like a matt silver or a silver grey. i did look at other more conventional colours but thought that this dress would take me from day to night quite easily. But what do others think about those colours? Should i stick to a more conventional colour?

No, the dress is mostly silver and no one cares if you wer black to a wedding these days :)

Can you link to it? It its mainly silver, I think it would be ok as long as its not too dark. If its mostly black or very dark, then no.

Yes please pic or link. The bow belt sounds dodgy.

I am hopeless at adding links but the dress can be found at www.coast-stores.com/JEMMA-DUCHESS-SATIN-DRESS/Dresses/coast/fcp-product/2143415941

I tried that in red a few years ago. It's super-flattering.

no thats a really nice dress. no offence with that at all

It's gorgeous. You'll outshine the bride! Do it. (And get me one while you're at it-save on the postage)

this one?

I think that's lovely, and it is light enough to wear to a wedding.

That's perfect for a wedding.

I think an accent of black is fine - and for the record me and every friend i have discussed it with still think all black to wedding is rude.

The dress is lovely tho. Defo wear it :)

It's nice, go for it.

I've worn grey and black to weddings before but I was 6+7 months preg so it was jersey but looked nice and no-one dared say anything to the heffalump.

Thanks everyone - am really glad you like it! I usually wear peach or light blues to a wedding - but wanted a dress that I could wear for the night reception as well. :))

I wore grey to a couple of weddings recently but was pregnant so was a case of fitting into whatever I could find! Wore a silvery grey stole too & I think it was fine...well no-one told me otherwise!

My SIL wore a black dress with bright pink scarf to my wedding & that was fine with me.

Ooh that is beautiful. Definitely okay for a wedding.

Dress is lovely

Dress is fine.

Was at a spring wedding last year, and about a quater of the women were in full black or predominantly black, and of the rest many had black accessories.

I really like :)

I think the black thing has gone by the by now, tbh. There has been plenty of black at the weddings I have gone to over the past few years.

Fabulous; my concern about the belt has gone. You will look extremely sexy and expensive.

My bridesmaids wore black with cream flowers embroidered onto the dresses (from Coast), it allowed us to have mixed bright coloured roses. They all looked gorgeous.

Gorgeous dress, go for it......

I wore purple and black to a wedding on Saturday, go for it!

I'm stuck with a black shrug over a bronze dress with red and purple flowers.
It looks wrong with a wool purple shrug and I'd match DD1.
I'm not buying a purple jacket to wear once and red will clash with DD2

Oh and it's a lovely dress