Can I wear black to a winter wedding?

[Mooey89]

Wedding this weekend, I have nothing to wear! All my nice dresses are black. They are quite formal and smart, can I get away with it?

Alternatively I have a sparkly navy number but it's more chrtmas party than wedding...!
Help!

We got married a week before Christmas. I actually hoped people would wear Christmas party wear!

Christmas party apparel much more appropriate for a December wedding than black, IMO.

I really don't think you can wear black to a wedding at any time of the year.

I think black is ok, but a little dull.

But as long as you're not also wearing a black veil, crying throughout the ceremony, and whispering "it should have been me" it's fine.

Personally I'd go for the sparkly dress.

Nope to black at a wedding (although the don't wear white or black rule seems to be dying out - witnessed a very awkward moment at a wedding this summer where the very beautiful new girlfriend of a friend turned up in a stunning white dress to a wedding that was not her own!).

Black is for funerals IMO - sparkly sounds great though, maybe with a navy shrug or blazer to tone it down and weddingify it!?

Thanks all.
I'll go for the sparkly Navy!

We're getting married the week before Christmas, I'm hoping to see lots of sparkles etc so I'm another vote for sparkly navy enjoy!

I think dressy black is fine - not a nice black dress you'd wear to the office, but a dressy dress is grand imo. Or Christmas party wear is also good at this time of year I think (provided not silly at daytime ceremony).

Unless you're broke and have no other option, don't wear black to a wedding.

Unless sparkly. But sparkly and not black sounds hugely better!

My DD went to the wedding of some uni mates at the end of November. She wore a black dress and she said there were loads of people wearing black. The bride wore a vintage dress. DDs was the dress she wore when she graduated which she bought second hand for £5. She feels she was appropriately dressed.

I guess what I am saying is that it depends on who is getting married and what the aesthetic of the wedding is.

Nothing wrong with wearing black to a winter wedding in my opinion.

I wore a black velvet dress to a winter wedding with massive chunky pink pearls and a sparkly pink scarf. It looked pretty striking - and I have such a negative opinion of myself that it must have been good if I felt ok!!

I wore a black dress with a light coloured Zara faux fur shawl thing to 2 winter weddings last year. I would say half the female guests were wearing black (like me mixed with another colour - so not head to toe funeral black.

I never heard of not wearing black to a wedding until I read it here.