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.

Maybe just message the bride and ask for clarification on the dress code? It would have been fine for our wedding; we specified on the invites that it was casual / wear-what-you-want.

Its perfect for a small casual affair xx

It's a pretty dress and I like that it's something you can easily wear again and again.

For the wedding, if you need some styling inspo, I would hide the drawstring waist with a chunky gold belt. Layer some different length gold chain necklaces. Some skinny gold bangles and a nice clutch with heels.

You would see that dress at a cool celeb wedding so I'd say go for it. But I'd style with white or tan rather than gold

New dress option - in the pink?

I was going to pair either the original dress or the new dress with this bag (already own it).

Jesus wept! 75 pounds for a long shirt???? Am I missing something? OP there are nice dresses in Primark. Seriously.

Look at jumpsuits at Massimo Dutti and Mango.

Way too casual. Looks like you're late and just grabbed your partners shirt!

It looks like my summer dressing gown (the fact I own a summer dressing gown might mean you don't want to listen to my style choices!).

The pink is pretty, I like the fabric.

It's quite casual but possibly could be dressed up.

Would you wear something in your hair? I always think that makes you look much more dressed up and formal. Doesn't have to be a hat or fascinator or whatever, just a sparkly or metallic slide could be nice.

The second pink dress is better than the first which is much too casual for almost any wedding.

If you can run to a little more than the pink dress then it would be worth looking at Me & Em which has some really nice dresses for the willowy between about £15 and £200 which can be worn pretty well anywhere

Way too casual....looks like a dressing gown.

Something like this maybe looks a bit smarter?

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I think it could look fresh and crisp. August, countryside, just right. I'd agree with doing up a few more of the buttons

The pink is lovely. Those shirt dresses made of actual shirt material never look great after being worn for more than 10 minutes

That FC dress SockYarn linked looks like a school uniform!!

The pink broderie dress is more wedding-y, but do you really like it OP, if you don’t like dressy outfits?

I’d say that the original dress linked is actually fine for a barn wedding. I’d even go as far a saying that I’d wear it with sneakers, or Saltwater sandals for all or part of the day.

Dress 1 is way too casual. It's the sort of thing I would wear to the beach.

Dress 2 is much better

The pink is gorgeous!

I like the idea of the shirt-dress smartened you, but I think it will be hard to execute for a long day at a wedding. It would probably look amazing and sophisticated for the first twenty minutes.

Absolutely love the pink though!

I really dislike the first dress - it’s like a giant mans shirt and will crease like hell.

The second dress is much better but I’m still not mad on it.

Ted Baker have a great sale on at the moment. I’ve wished I had some weddings to go to and some of the dresses aren’t at all fussy.

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@Immigrantsong

The pink one is much better! 👍🏼

I'm in the car too casual camp too. Definately not heels for a barn wedding.