Call me a snob but this is my style nightmare

[naturelover]

Next summer we are attending a "Medieval style" wedding and we have to dress up in Medieval costume.

I'm bloody dreading it! And am a tad annoyed that I no longer have an excuse to buy a nice frock! I've been breastfeeding or pregnant for ages and haven't worn a dress for years.

I think I can cheaply hire a costume for myself but not sure about DH (very tall) or toddler boy.

Sorry, not looking for solutions as such, just a rant!

Poor Pootles. That actually sounds traumatic. But would make a wonderful interlude in a novel. I'm actually surprised it's not in one of the "Bridget Jones" stories.

What a weird thing to do to your wedding guests. But also, weirdly, appealing. I kind of fancy holding a wedding, and insisting on something preposterous, that makes all the invitees really, really miserable. And bouncing around, pretending I'm doing it, because it's such a jolly idea.

Then cackling as I peruse the wedding photos, that have caught the shadow of misery on all their sad, little faces.

(Disclaimer: I wouldn't, ever, actually do it. It's just a weirdly pleasurable thought to imagine.)

Could you buy something from All Saints, in one of their post-apolcalyptic, deconstructed/reconstructed "rags" style? then you might be able to pass yourself off as a sort of C21st-peasant, re-imagined through the lens of techno-SF/fantasy?

Hard work and might annoy the bride, but a conversation-opener and you get to buy a new outfit.

Hire some robes and go as a monk.

not medieval but of that ilk

What a nightmare!

I feel your pain, I am still traumatised from the cringe worthy medieval banquet I had to attend as part of a work team building day...

Could you not wear a simple shift dress and flipflops and go as a serf?

I think it sounds fun, here are your shoes sorted, now you just need a dress.

ROFL at flea infested plague rat.
PMSL at "is it a Northern wedding"

You poor woman. spunds dreadful!

spunds is obviously medieval for sounds

you poor thing!
As if its not enough of an arse pain to buy wedding outfits at the best of time.

a nightie and two plaits?

www.pasttimes.com/nightwear/ladies-celtic-nightdress-sm/invt/810636/

Wouldnt be my cup of tea at all.
Why would anyoen think this is a good idea.

I think going as a leper is agreat idea

No, you are not a snob at all. Why do people feel the need to inflict their own lack of style and taste on their guests?

Go as a nun, with your DH as a monk - hand in hand

armour

I quite fancy the chainmail myself. I wonder if it would be cooler for summer.

reckon that the boudicca breastplate here would upstage the bride

especially if you wore the breastplate AND the horned helmet

weirdly the link doesn't work
anyway its that past times website and there is even a sale on!

Actually, now I'ce seen the frocks I've changed my mind. I want to go to a wedding all swooshy in a velvet princess gown.

These look more authentic but less nice

Or you could go as a medieval pirate?

I wouldn't mind but my clothing budget is minuscule, so spending money on a) something I'll wear only once or b) on costume hire, just annoys me. I was really looking forward to having an excuse to buy a dress (I genuinely only have two dresses, both for winter and neither of them fit since I had kids either).

KurriKurri - love the shoes.
Medieval wedding sounds bonkers to me!