Red at a wedding?

[Dontletthebastardsgrindyoudown]

Someone once told me that you shouldn't wear red to a wedding, and it's stuck in my head. Found a gorgeous dress for friends upcoming wedding and it's red. Is it a faux pas? Tia

Never known this, only avoid white and creams. Once saw someone on here saying don’t wear green and others black but I’ve never seen people avoid these colours irl

As in I’ve seen these colours at weddings. There may have been guests avoiding them.

Google royal wedding guests and look through images. There’s a few wearing red.

Thank you red it is

*I didn't take much persuasion

Don't think it's a faux pas or have certainly not heard about it if it is. Reckon you can wear pretty much any colour bar white (and even that might be okay if not at all wedding-dressy).

There is an Old Wives Tale that wearing red means you have slept with the groom.

It's up to you whether this is relevant, if this would bring attention to yourself, whether it would upset the bride and if this would bother you or anyone you care about.

In China red is the traditional bridal colour, so only to be avoided in the way most women in the west wouldn't wear white to a wedding that wasn't their own

First I heard of not wearing red to a wedding was when I moved to Scandinavia and it means you had slept with the groom.

No issue with it in the UK that I’ve ever heard of 🙂

As long as you don't plan on running away with either the bride or groom you'll be fine!

Definitely haven't slept with the groom!

I'm now away to check my wedding album for any pals wearing red

What a loaf of codswallop. Wear red if you want OP.

I've read the same recently I think. The reason given though was that in wedding photographs it can detract from the bride so is considered a bit of a faux pas.

I wouldn’t wear it to any wedding where bride or groom has an Asian heritage or you risk wearing the same colour as the bride. If that’s not a concern then no issue with wearing red.

Keepers I am going to be a nervous wreck at the next wedding I go to.

No white
No green
No black
No ref
No cream
No lace
No shoulders
No cleavage

@DextroDependant that's my exact list actually

Everyone in navy then!

as long as the bride isn’t wearing red you’re fine.

“There is an Old Wives Tale that wearing red means you have slept with the groom.”

I have just bought red dresses for my bridesmaids.

Lovely @Honeycake50

@LoveInTokyo oh dear

My grandma used to say you couldn’t wear red or white to a wedding as it was unlucky due to being the colour of blood and bandages. She was born in 1900 though so that may have had something to do with war brides and the like. She had a superstitious saying for every ocassion!

Jewish weddings tent to avoid red. Not other weddings though.

I love a red dress. I wore this to a wedding recently and I noticed a couple of the other guests wore red too.
www.zoevine.com/collections/fit-and-flare/products/paloma-cowl-neck-dress

Depends. Red floral tea dress is fine, red nylon lace minidress, umm, maybe not. Bit of an exaggeration to make a point but you get the idea.

I think you just have to be a bit more careful with the style/details/fabric than with some other colours.