To disageee that a bride can't decide?

[mummytofourbabies]

Was invited to a wedding and have since received an email from the bride telling me that all guests are forbidden from wearing a hay or fascination?
Wtf?
Does this actually happen now?

[TheCompanyOfCats]

place marking

[FloweryBaps]

Even if Mummyto isn't a guest at the wedding (although it would seem she is), do we really care??? No need to go all Columbo over it Haggis!

[TheCompanyOfCats]

Haggis How do you who OP is (as many, many before me have asked)? I'm DYING of curiosity.

Also, I think you must be the bride because random guests wouldn't know everybody on both sides of the wedding (i.e. you wouldn't know some random cousin doesn't have four children, for example).

[mummytofourbabies]

Anyway on another note since this is totally boring me now. What kind of dress for a winter wedding? Will be freeeezing by then. I'm really struggling so any help would be great

[MiddleClassProblem]

Tights, a faux fur stole, a hip flask?

[dowhatnow]

Well whatever you buy will need to match your hat/deely boppers/my little pony ears etc, so make a final decision on your head attire, then we can help with the outfit...

[MrsHathaway]

I have an amazing bodycon dress in red velvet. That's what I'd wear to a winter wedding if I could still squeeze into it.

In not very long the shops will be full of Christmas party frocks. One of those in not-black would be ideal, surely!

Or something fairly long, so you can have woolly tights underneath.

OK this is thermal!

[ArcheryAnnie]

If she had stipulated no trousers

Oh, MrsHathaway, that would have made the wedding photos really worth framing and putting in the sitting room, for once.

I'm never going to get married, but at the moment am entertaining fantasies of what my demands would be if I were, and just can't decide between "everyone must dress as Indiana Jones" and "no trousers" as my favourite instructions.

(I know Indiana Jones was a bonus, not a demand, on the wedding already mentioned here, but it's SO FAB.)

[Youarenotprepared]

I think nothing says winter wedding in Scotland than this beauty which is basically a massive woolly jumper as far as I can tell...

[MrsHathaway]

There were some glorious wedding photos in the press when civil partnerships first came in - where all the guests dressed for Carnival and stuff, including stilts and boas and all sorts. I think that would be utterly fabulous.

I remember DM turning down a wedding invitation where all the women were requested to wear "pink or coral". Bleurgh. Fine on one person, but not on half the room!

[Youarenotprepared]

You also need the huge fluffy shrug thing and massive fleece lined boots. All your heat will escape from your head since you can't wear a hat, you have to compensate somehow...

[Youarenotprepared]

Serious note Christmas dresses will appear soon. Long sleeved deep red dress of knee length will probably do nicely. That's what I would look for.

[AlpacaPicnic]

Ooh, I'd go British Racing Green Velvet, cocktail/princess length, slightly flared skirt bloody thick tights fabulous boots.

[AlpacaPicnic]

And a cape or cloak with hidden inside pockets for hipflasks/contraband fascinators...

[CalmDownBeyonce]

I'd wear an OTT opera cloak with a big hood! A hood isn't a hat!

I'd be pretty annoyed if I was told that I couldn't wear a hat or fascinator to a wedding, I love hats and enjoy an excuse to wear one! I'd be wearing some really fancy hairclips or a big in-your-face headband as a mark of my silent rebellion....

[PerspicaciaTick]

Ooh - do you mean like the Scottish Widows woman? Sweeping around in her cape?

[GruochMacAlpin]

That woolly jumper won't do at all. Scottish weddings tend to have lots of energetic dancing.

I'd have a nice dress with a fabulous coat over it for the church.

assuming you're still invited after you publically criticised the bride of course

[MiddleClassProblem]

Haggis's posts have been deleted, ugh!

Seems like there are two brides in the Aberdeen area who have cocklaphobia

[MiddleClassProblem]

Ugh is at the disappointment of finding out hatless reasoning.

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[MiddleClassProblem]

I posted to early but was only going to reiterate that I'm not a hat fun but regular hats rather than dress hats, make my hair static. Hats are so expensive for something you wear so rarely I'd have to really love one to even contemplate buying one

[mummytofourbabies]

Cocklaphobia? What have I missed? Haha

[MiddleClassProblem]

Apparently the phobia of hats and headgear. Or dickheads...

[MiddleClassProblem]

It probably stems from hen dos

[WappersReturns]

Ooooh I live in Peterhead and had no idea there was a bonnet!