Is it a no no to wear a black dress to a wedding?

[zookeeper]

It's a very nice posh black dress with a little shrug black jacket - was thinking of jazzing it up with heels etc and a bright pashmina. I mentioned it to a friend and she is horrified and am now having a crisis of confidence. Please let me have your view - I am feeling fat pale and frumpy, am comfortable in this and am really not up to looking for a wedding ourfit

I think that's fine. I wore a black dress to a wedding and got gasps when I said I was wearing it. But in reality lots of people wore black but obviously not funeral style.

I hate superstition. What is it supposed to mean? That you're trying to curse the marriage FFS!

Go ahead and wear it. I'm sure you'll look great!

As long as you've got colourful accessories it should be fine.
Black on it's own might be a bit weird.

I have worn black a few times. I always jazz it up with some bright accesssories.

Mainly as my only posh hat is black with an orange trim!

I agree - it sounds lovely.

hat? buttonhole?

I much prefer it to seeing people wearing white = apart from the bride of course

its not a nono.
if you ask me black always looks good.
but its summer so you might want to ad some colorful accessories?

my mother is going to one in france next week and shes wearing black, she wore black to my wedding and she did look a bit melancolic,
so for this event i have gotten her to change her hat!

i think black with a small amt of antoher colour whetehr its bag and shoes, hat, corsage, top under the dress for modesty, whatever will lighten the effect .

IMO White is the real nono.

Sounds great the way you are going to do it.

I've worn a black dress to a couple of weddings - didn't think anything of it. Much better to wear something you feel comfortable in than worrying about what anyone else thinks!

You'll look lovely.

sounds fine but beware of bright colours with black

thanks for your comments - I'm really out of the loop on dressing up and feel very mumsy

Was thinking of lime green scarf and necklace

sounds fine to me

2 people wore black at my wedding, one had white jacket and accessories, and one wore silver shoes, silver bag, back wrap with silver detail etc...
both looked absolutely lovely

I agree that I'd be careful of bright colours with black.

Men can wear black suits without any one giving it a second thought so I don't see why you can't.

although lime green sounds like it would work actually

Posh black dress sounds lovely but a little like evening wear to me.

I wore black to my own wedding.

me too slug...
black and gold

go for it zk, nowt wrong with black

It is a day wedding and it is definitely an evening dress - it has a snmall diamante square at the waist and has a layered below knee hem

I know it sounds foul but it isn't!

sounds glam...
maybe pale blue or v. pale pink accessories?

tbh i hate choosing wedding outfits, i find it an absolute nightmare and always have a crisis of confidence...

if you've found something you like and feel good in you're doing well IMO!

metallics with black an excellent idea

I've worn black and white and black with pastels to weddings before. Both gone down well.

I was thinking bronze or pewter

My Mum wore a black suit as mother of the bride. It did have a cream trim but otherwise totally black. And very classy she looked too!