Wearing black to a wedding.

[BillyButtfuck]

I know the rule is not to wear black to a wedding, but what if you are only attending the reception after?
I am going to a very big (500+ guests) wedding reception from 7-late and have a lovely sparkly black dress I've been dying to wear.

Would it be bad form?

I wore a black dress when I attended a wedding reception

Not if you're wearing skin coloured/no tights and maybe colourful/not-glitzy-but-not-dark jewellery

Black sparkly for evening is fine.

In fact black for the day would be fine too if you have colourful accessories as far as I am concerned.

I wore mostly black to an autumn wedding last year with orange/red accessories.

No one said anything negative.

If you have a lovely dress you want to wear, I'd wear it.

Black for evening wear is fine, not for the day time though.

Oh I was hoping you'd all say that, fantastic! So what colour tights? I have black or sheer&smart nudes.

I don't agree with all the stereotype rules on what to wear for what, just wear what you feel comfortable in for the wedding.

Definitely ok if for the evening. No tights ideally (indoors and warm presumably). If the dress really does call for tights then very barely there nude. Have a fab time.

I had this problem, bought a multicoloured dress with predominantly black in it but also other colours including some white. Would have preferred to get a black jacket to go with it, but didn't feel right so went for white. I am a day guest though and it's a summer wedding. For evening and/or winter weddings some black may be ok.

I bet no one wears black to Pippa M's wedding! However if it is just the evening do it won't matter and with 500 guests no-one will notice you!!!

It depends on the bride tbh. I didn't mind if people wore black or red to mine, but I know some of my friends thought it was a bit off of their guests to do so.

No-one is going to be so rude as to comment directly to you at the reception itself.

But black (or white/near white) to a wedding are definitely shibboleths. I wouldn't wear either.