Friend bought the same dress for wedding

[felicitous]

My friend from university is getting married this summer, I bought my dress about a month ago now (very organised for me! haha) and sent pics to a couple of friends.

One of them has now gone and bought exactly the same dress as me for the wedding. It's definitely noticeable that it's the same dress and she was a close friend from uni too, so it's likely that we will be sat together and spend a lot of the evening talking to each other etc.

AIBU to be a bit pissed that she's bought this dress? I sent her a pic of it recently saying I was wearing it for the wedding and she goes and buys an identical one.

What should I do? I do really like the dress and it's now too late for me to return it. I'd never outright tell her she can't wear the dress she bought, but I don't want to be sat right next to her in matching dresses. Maybe I'm petty but I think we'd look ridiculous - like fake bridesmaids!

Oh you silly! You sent me the picture that I sent you and our friends on (whatever date) of the dress I will be wearing and it wasn't the picture of your dress. xxx

Texts like this are so passive aggressive, she'll see straight through it.

And she'll think you're nuts as well.

Well having read the suggestions, I think you need to phone her and have a conversation about it. Explain that her dress is the same as the one you have bought and it might look a bit awkward. Explain you would be happy to change for something else, but you don't have the receipt, so perhaps (if you are the same size) you could use her receipt to return or try to see if you could exchange.

Hopefully she will say 'no, not to worry, I'll change', but if she has her heart set on the dress, I think you should try to change if you can and just suck it up. The alternative, depending on what the dress is like, is to see if you can have a conversation on how you could each accessorise so that you don't look like twins. But I do think you need to speak about it, instead of texting.

@felicitous - any update?