Furry Wedding Invitation

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DP and I have been invited to a Furry wedding. For those of you that don't know, furries like to dress as anthropomorphized animal characters; I think the bride is an ocelot or something. According to the invite, dressing in costume is 'preferred' (not sure if the pun was intended). AIBU to be reluctant to spend a day surrounded by a group of fur-suited wedding guests? Particularly as neither DP or I have any interest in dressing up ourselves.

I also assumed OP meant a dog or cat wedding.

I'm thinking the Ocelot equivalent of Jessica Rabbit now though.

Definitely would not attend.

If this is real, then I can guarantee that the kinky couple have pretended it’s just a fun, fancy dress wedding to the innocent friends and relatives. They’ll all rock up in animal outfits and have a great time, then somewhere down the line they’ll hear/read/be told about furries and be sat like

Pics or it didn’t happen

Well who knew??

Just don’t wear this and upstage the bride.

I'd have to go, if only to watch the happy couple's nearest and dearest pretend that everything is fiiiiiine and this is all perfectly normal.

Just no. It's weird. Look on Twitter if you want some info about how horrible that community can be.

Op. Can I ask if you're in the midlands? Dp and I had an invite this week to a similar sounding event... and they can't be that common! I might be going and neither DP or I will dress up, although I do hate feeling out of place!

Oh. I opened this thinking it was going to be about the invitation being furry and was looking forward to photos - my aunt sent out tiny bears she had made holding invitations for a big birthday so I was thinking along those lines.

I have a few friends who are furries, its not as much a fetish as some on here are making out, or rather its not just a fetish, most of the ones I know would never have sex in their fur suits because those suits are stupid expensive and hard to clean and, well, bodily fluids and fur aren't a good mix.

I've been to a few cosplay weddings, Star Wars ones mainly, they were ace, not everyone dressed up, some were full on, some had a themed accessory and some none at all. Cat ears would do tbh.

Seriously, I would genuinely check what you’re consenting to if you decide to wear a costume...

And if you do, just make sure you are sewn into your costume. This is a sex fetish thing!

It's a fetish thing but that doesn't mean OP is in any danger FFS! I've been to a few comic cons where furries are there, they're perfectly nice people. In fact, they're way more into consent etc. than a lot of people I know.

This is a fetish thing - as in, these people get turned on by it all.

I would be incredibly wary of accepting an invitation. I know a couple of furries and while they're perfectly pleasant and otherwise normal people I wouldn't want to join in anything like this!

there's a time and place to indulge your particular type of fetish.
THIS fetish at a real wedding would be too much for me to accept.

If you must go - and personally I wouldn't - you could always wear a plain outfit together with something like this

At least it would keep in with the theme, while avoiding looking totally insane ...

I know someone who is into this and for him anyway it's a major sexual fetish. Not just a bit of cos play.

I am not too keen on being an unwitting participant in other people's sexual kicks. So, no.

If this is real.

If it was during a heatwave I wouldn't dress up although I'd go as a panda if it was in colder weather.

🙄 🙀

I'm getting increasingly concerned with the way in which private fetishes and kinks are now being made public and forced on to unsuspecting or unwilling bystanders - BDSM at Gay Pride marches, for example.

I think you may have misunderstood the concept of "pride". It’s not just a word randomly attached to the event, you know.

Or are you suggesting that the only people who should be out and proud are the ones whose sexuality you find acceptable?

OMG!
As a PP said, every day is a school day.

@Eustasiavye

Are they saying their vows dressed like that?
Is it legal? It could be anyone in that outfit.

Once I'd seen the photos I was asking the very same question: surely you have to be able to see who is getting married in order for it to be legal.

If I wanted to go i'd probably purposely misunderstand and go as Cruella deVil.

stella homosexuality is a state of being. Pride events celebrate that and are A-ok

BDSM is separate to sexuality and purely a kink like many others. Unless you think everybody should be playing out their kinks in public and the unwilling public should have no choice in the matter ?

The leather brigade have been marching with us since Pride first started. The thing that’s changed is the increasing attendance of people who aren’t part of the queer community. Who apparently feel entitled to tell us we’re doing it wrong.

Unless you think everybody should be playing out their kinks in public and the unwilling public should have no choice in the matter ?

Many, many, many people are though. People with a fetish for certain hair colours, foot fetishists, BDSM in the form of collars and chokers.

It's so strange on Mumsnet how the only acceptable sex is completely vanilla with the lights off. Also no religion that isn't single deity/Christian in origin, It's a very very narrow view point on here there doesn't seem to be any room for people to be anything than just perfectly "normal" people with no interests outside of clothes and shoes.

Cat ears won’t do it for those who are new to what a furry is hahaha