Have just received the 'schedule and dress code' for a wedding I'm attending.

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I'm screwed.

I'm seriously screwed.

The linked brogues are fine in style. I LOVE brogues. It's the colour. My grandma wears several orthopaedic pairs of shoes she has specially made. They are exactly that colour.

I couldn't walk in wedges DrGarnett. I just couldn't. It'd be embarrassing when I fell on the cake/in the ornamental ponds.

i love office
do any of these look right?

i like these

I see everybody else has already said it but wow! You have a great figure and that dress with hat looks lovely on you.

You look lovely :) I'd get a wrap of some sort to go over it, as it does have quite a deep neckline and I found myself at a function a while ago where I realised halfway through that every time I reached for the water jug on the table the people sat opposite got a very good look down my similarly deep dress (Spent the rest of the day hoiking it up and standing up very straight, good for your posture at least!)

Shoes - I also can't do heels, at least no higher than one inch. For my best friend's wedding last summer I wore some very pretty flat strappy sandals. They looked fancy and expensive (they weren't) and not at all out of place, even though every other woman in the place was in high heels. Could you do something like that? It's a summer wedding, so open strappy shoes would be fine.

You look lovely. Don't bother with a hairdresser if you're wearing a hat.

Pale grey or silver wrap with that frock I think. Would a flat sandal, flip flop type thing work for you?

You could braid your hair the night before slightly damp with a skooshy of something (mousse or a hold spray) and have sort of disheveled hippy like hair I also want you to wear a daisy chain round your head like a crown, but that would just be projecting my longing to be a hippy!

Some of those Office ones are lovely but sooooo expensive. Those linked mary jane ones, I have some Doc Marten's just like that so could wear them. I also have some shoes which are quite brogue like but no holes, they're green purple and yellow which sounds vile but I LOVE them. They might work actually.

My Mum has a beautiful pale grey pashmina which I could borrow.

Glaikit, you've just described my 'going out' hair. Wash and braid the night before, let down the next day, couple of flowers, done.

TBH I'll end up barefoot by the time the dancing starts anyway so shoes are fairly irrelevant.

Yes yes, flowers in your hair! Lovely.

you look vair pretty darling

vair

you will quite outshine yon bride

You look stunning.

That's a jealous face and a "oh to have ever had a figure like that" face and a "oh to be that young" face

Seriously love, you look gorgeous. And stunning.

Och, you drunks lovely folks.

Outshine the bride? Fnar. Imagine a really, really, really beautiful woman. Now make her 67% more beautiful, stunning figure, bloody lovely and a sunny disposition. That's yon bride. She is going to look so fabulous. And I don't give a witch's tit about fashion or wedding dresses but I know she's going to just look breathtaking. I shall avoid standing next to her tbh. I'll stand next to dh and repeatedly ask him if I look ridiculous/which fork to use next/whether I can sneak my gingerbread man out of my handbag yet.

espadrilles?

I personally love a good wedding, not expecting an I native to any this year though :(

Anyone want to invite me to their wedding?

Oh, I see. But you see, I do think a pale neutral would be really nice with purple ...

here?

here?

studded!

Outfit looks terrific!

How about flat silvery grey sandals to match the pashmina? Would probably be easier to match than trying to match specific shades of purple, plus you can get sparkly sandals these days if you're able to tolerate a bit of bling.

in the sale if the purples match

I know you said this isn't your annual thread, but I bloody luff you on S&B.

Oh I love those espadrilles, seriously like. Like the sort of frilly, flowery nature of them and Inertia, those purple ones I like too, especially the colour. And you're going to roll your eyes but not only can I not wear heels, I can't do toe posts. I don't know what is wrong with my blooming feet but they hurt like a thousand knives.

I know, I know, I'm awkward.

I'll get it all out in one go. I'm teetotal, I don't like fizzy drinks, I find oversized belts and sunglasses silly (you look like a child dressing up), can't bear it when people put weetabix upside down and I don't like any part of Gregg Wallace, particularly his head.

Oh and I fancy David Mitchell.

I honestly don't think you should worry too much about the dress code. As long as you look as if you have made an effort, no-one is going to criticise you for wearing wrong shoes or whatever.

Dress codes are guidelines for people who are not sure about what is appropriate - you have your own sense of style and should be true to yourself.

When I got married my wonderful nanny, who had blue hair at the time, borrowed a suit - smart jacket and skirt - from a friend, and asked me beforehand if I thought it was Ok. She had obviously chosen it because she thought it was the sort of thing my friends would wear (and some of them would) - I said it was fine but didn't look like her normal style and she should wear what she felt comfortable in. She came in a multi-coloured sarong and looked amazing.

Weddingy DM's?

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Absolutely, Mary