Wedding guest help - yay or nay to this dress?

[kittensandcoffee]

Dress in question!

I hate printed or vaguely 'occasiony' dresses of any kind and I'd actually wear this dress outside of a wedding setting. I've got a small wedding coming up end of August in a countryside venue and was wondering if this dress would look chic and not too casual.

Planning on wearing with some heeled gold sandals, gold jewellery and a little white crossbody bag.

Should add, I plan on doing up more buttons than the model has!

Nice dress but for me too casual

I think it's too casual.

It's lovely! Dressed up that will be a picture of elegance!

Depends on the wedding. I've seen worse (at an actual wedding).

too casual

Very pretty. I think dressed up it will look good for a wedding and you can definitely use it as daily wear too!

Nay, too casual and would probably look a crumpled mess very quickly.

I think it's lovely, go for it!!

I think it could be dressed up. I like it.

I think it’s too casual, sorry.

Here's some styling inspo:

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I should maybe add the venue is quite small/casual?

I think it will get very crumpled after a while and would take very careful accessorising, it's a no from me

Opinions are about 50/50 so far! I just realllllly hate almost all dresses and especially printed/fussy things. If anyone has any nice minimalisty dresses, feel free to link!

I also think too casual, even more so after the styling inspo.

Why do you feel you need to wear a dress? You can find really smart trousers or jumpsuits that would be ideal for a wedding.

Too casual and more like something you’d wear in the office in the styling pics.

If you hate dresses then could you look at something else entirely - a jumpsuit, trousers and a blingy top? I think the dress is fine - no one's going to be staring at you in horror at your overly casual dress - but just fine, it's not very special.

To those suggesting jumpsuits/trousers - I like them fine, I just don't like occasion-y outfits in general. On this occasion, I think a dress would be better though, I think it's likely to be quite hot. Also I was hoping to buy a dress I could wear IRL too so it's not a waste of money.

I think it is casual but also, depending on styling, I reckon it could look really chic in an "I haven't made too much effort" for the type of wedding you've described. Not all weddings need to have the "occasion" dress.

I think it’ll look chic & elegant dressed up. Go for it!

If it’s a bit of a boho wedding in a field/seaside cafe/cricket club/windmill - it’s fine, yes

If it’s a more formal wedding in a church/town hall - too casual

Somewhere in between -dress it up

I think it will look lovely and with the styling you mentioned would be Wedding appropriate.

In that case I think it's fine, and could look lovely dressed up a bit. I also think that if your style is generally very casual, which it sounds is the case, then you don't have to go as dressed up to look 'occasion-y' to people who know you, and in fact it can look a bit weird/jarring if you do

I'm sorry but it looks like a cover up for the beach or at a push something you'd wear really casually.