to not want to wear white on my wedding day?

[FearlessFairy]

Did anyone wear a different colour?
I'm only getting married in a registry office with both sets of parents as guests, nothing exciting. I don't really like white dresses 🤣 or traditions! But I do feel pressure to wear a nice white dress (even if only simple and not a traditional wedding dress!)

I wore a little dark red velvety number (also married in a registry office in winter). Stunning dress and I've worn it a few times to formal events since then so not a one-day-wonder like most white dresses are...

OP just wear whatever makes you feel the day is special and makes you feel special. If you tend to light colours anyway you will not be veering too far away from what has become tradition. As an example, I personally loved Camilla's wedding dress when she married Charles. Still very much a bride but the outfit was stunning and it really looked great on her. I am not an ardent royalist but this is the first example I thought of. She looked so comfortable in her own skin and stylish on her terms rather than playing dress up.

I am also very pale and white makes me look like a ghost. I wore a goldy dress and it was perfect.

A Christmas wedding opens up all sorts or lovely options! And the shops will be full of lovely dressed.

I married in pink, my friend in gold, no reason not to go with a deep green!

Honestly, if you are old enough to get married then you are old enough to choose your own outfit, don't give in to 'tradition' or 'pressure' ... own your decision,

Mine was grey. At 46 and the mother of a 25 year old, I’d have looked a complete tit in white. Wear whatever colour you like.

I wore a knee length emerald green dress to my registry office wedding.

I wore a long pale blue dress for my first wedding (church) and navy blue for my second registry office wedding.

I wore bright pink, a mini dress with a matching coat/jacket

Wear whatever colour and style you like!

Emerald green would be the obvious choice but the world is your oyster.

I've got a champagne coloured one

Not unreasonable at all.

I wore a medium blue one that has a flower petals in different colours patterned over it (mostly dark blue and purple) and my spouse wore a dark blue shirt. I loved it, the pictures make me smile, and the only thing I would change would be having more comfortable shoes.

I can't believe people are still having to ask this sort of question. Wear whatever colour you like. Are your family putting pressure on you to wear white?

God no wonder weddings are such at utter nightmare.

Pale, red hair, freckles and a December wedding, OP you must try on some deep red, burgundy and or ruby red outfits - you'd look stunning!

Being Indian I'm biased and we wear such deep colours for our weddings. White signifies death so we don't get married in it.

I wore silver shift mini dress at my first. And leopard print 50s style at my second (hopefully last 😀). I look shit in white. And I wanted a dress I could wear again.

But if I ever do it again it's going to be a gold jumpsuit! @Aozora13

I wore a dark berry red to my Christmas wedding. Wear what you like!

I wore silver
A friend wore yellow

I used to work weddings - the ones I remember clothes wise were: a couple dressed like gomez and morticia addams, one where the whole wedding party (and most of the guests) wore disney costumes, and an absolutely fantastic wedding where he wore a white dress and she the tux (yes really, rumour was the bride hated dresses/skirts and both mothers were being horrid about it, so the couple wanted to make their boundaries clear before they had kids).
Although it's anecdotal, I believe that these couples were happier - they weren't taking things too seriously or stuck with something they didn't want due to peer pressure/familial expectations.
TLDR? It's your wedding, wear what you want.

You don’t need strangers on an internet site to give you permission to wear what you want , be an individual

Would love to see pics of what all you lovely people that wore non white dresses looked like :)

I am getting married next month (!!) still no dress yet but also don't want white and similar to you OP re: register office with parents.

Purple. And I got married in church. Wear what you like, it's only fashion

I’ve been to a number of first weddings where the bride didn’t wear white.
My favourite was a friend with long red curls, curvy with a narrow waist.
She wore cloth of gold with a fishtail train, it was an evening wedding with candlelight and it was magical.
But I’ve seen red, saffron, blue, black, green, Hawaiian print and blue jeans. It’s your day.

@DM1209

Pale, red hair, freckles and a December wedding, OP you must try on some deep red, burgundy and or ruby red outfits - you'd look stunning!

Being Indian I'm biased and we wear such deep colours for our weddings. White signifies death so we don't get married in it.

I worked in a primary school that was 99.9% first generation Muslim. The children were horrified when I brought in my wedding dress for a project! 🤣

I had a traditional dress, but in navy blue. I loved it!

A black flowery Hobbs dress, was perfect for me