to have worn red lycra to a wedding?

[UncouthLostYouth]

From Jane Norman.

It's a lovely dress.
I once wore a teadress to a wedding on a super windy day. I was wearing a g-string so had to work hard to avoid flashing everything when standing for group photos. A lycra dress would have been much better.

Was is just to the evening do or to the whole ceremony/photos/breakfast?

I'm super jealous of your ability to wear red, I always look awful in it. Special K adverts wind me right up!

I agree with a PP - you were "that" guest.....

My Stepmum was "that guest" at my wedding - she had to wear a bright salmon pink outfit. And all the photos she is in, you don't notice anyone else, she is there - in your face.

It looks fine to me. I would probably have worn a jacket or some kind of cardigan or wrap over it for the ceremony.

I quite like the dress (have worn similar) but to me it's far more suited to a nightclub than a wedding. I consider it rather rude to wear anything that takes attention from the bride, and that's an head-turner of a dress due to the tightness, length and colour combination.

Isn't the joy of wedding that there is always 'that guest'?

I've been 'that guest', not because of my inappropriate clothes, but because of my dirty dancing at the disco with my husband in a very demure ecrus slub silk shift dress. Mine, not his.

Who cares? At least we gave them something to talk about and I didn't send anyone to hospital, which I'd accept is even worse wedding form and asking for money towards the honeymoon in a poem.

And they enjoyed tutting over our monstrous hangovers the next morning.

What's not to like?

I worn red (and gold) to my own wedding - and the bridesmaids also wore red. Does that make me 'that' kind of wedding party!!!

Blimey, lots of replies - thank you!

Thank you to all you kind liberal folk who consider it OK

And, in answer to the questions, umm...
It was a traditional church wedding and I did a reading
It was hot so I had no extra wraps
I wore it all day, not just to the evening

Mother of bride just dropped a little disapprovingly (not rudely, though) into a conversation last week a little comment about my "very tight red dress" at her daughter's wedding, with a bit of an eyebrow raise.

To be honest it had never occurred to me that it was possible for anyone to present a distraction from the bride at a wedding (the bride's in a totally different league/category, surely? And surely a guest wearing a beautiful demure number would present more of a risk of that? Not me dressed like a harlot).
But I wouldn't do it again...

worse wedding form and asking for money towards the honeymoon in a poem

than asking for money.

And to those suggesting I was "that guest"... does "that guest" slurringly request "It's Raining Men" from the DJ and then try to get the vicar to dance with them? Oh, OK then...

And I so wish I could have had 'that guest' at my wedding.

There would have been two. My uncle, who used to tie his trousers up with string and DH's aunt, who was in her 70s, lived in a caravan and dyed her
hair red.

Unfortunately he'd died and despite appearances, she's very shy in strange company so declined. She's still going strong at 93 and still in that caravan.

The words red and lycra in the same sentence make me cringe. Never upstage the bride

Think that wedding was 10 years ago now...

Honestly if you wore it to the whole thing, especially a church wedding I would probably privately raise an eyebrow. It is a very look at me look and I wouldn't do that to the bride. Not appropriate really but what's done is done

OP you sound like fun. Feel free to come to my wedding.

It’s not your traditional wedding attire, no. I have to admit I would be waggling an eyebrow furiously if I saw a guest wearing a dress like that.

But pay no heed to me: I once wore a cream trouser suit as a guest to a wedding 15 years ago. Years later, when looking at the photos I realised that due to my position next to the bride in a group photo, we looked the happy couple at a same-sex wedding!

Thoroughly bad form MissClare.

The OP has had 5 years to come to terms with their error.

It's a knock his socks off, hot date dress not a wedding outfit IMO. But 5years ago!? She's batshit!!

My best friend wore a backless number to my wedding, 20 years ago, accompanied by a huge and striking hat. (She is a fitness freak and has a beautifully toned body.) It was fabulous and I loved it.

My mother-in-law (a very lovely lady) still mentioned it disapprovingly several years later.

@MrSheen

Green is supposed to be unlucky at weddings because it's the colour of the Fairy People and birds in the house (even images of them, for some) are supposed to bring death. And red was treated as inappropriate just because it's red.

Meh. Everything's inappropriate or unlucky in somebody's superstition.

In my case, I heard all these (and was banned from wearing red lipstick/was always on the receiving end of criticism from red or green clothes, etc) from my mother. This leads me to suspect the superstitions probably featured in a Catherine Cookson book at some point, especially as when a white streak emerged from my parting, she went nuts more than usual at any rate about that.

Strangely, she focused upon emeralds being unlucky after reading about it in a Shirley Conran book and completely ignored the superstition about opals being unlucky when she had an antique ring set with tiny opals.

It's almost as if they were all designed to make people women feel bad...

Having watched a few episodes of Four Weddings all bets are off for UK weddings, I bet you looked lovely.