This dress for wedding guest [pics]

[LazyJayne]

I’m going to a wedding in August and am wondering if I can wear this dress. I already have it and I wear it to go out in the summer (into town, to pubs etc.).

For this reason, it feels like a regular ‘day-to-day’ dress to me, but I’m wondering if it could pass as a wedding outfit if I add heels and a fat sister?

The wedding is a ceremony and reception in a country house, so pretty formal. I don’t want to feel out of place, but equally I know I feel nice and will be comfortable if I wear this dress. The bride won’t have seen me in it before so she won’t know I haven’t bought it especially.

Thoughts?

It is lovely, but where I'm from a shirt dress would not be formal enough for a wedding.
Wedding attire is "day at Ascot" dressy here (Ireland). I get the impression that UK weddings are often more casual though?

*Heels & a fat sister
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Brilliant 😂😂😂😂

Serious giggles at fat sister 🤣🤣🤣

I agree that a shirt dress is not dressy enough for a formal event. As you said, this is the sort of thing you'd wear to sit in a beer garden, and things like a fascinator aren't going to change the style of the dress. I really like it, but I would always go more formal for a wedding.

It would be like a man wearing chinos and a shirt instead of a suit and hoping a tie would make it look more formal.

It'll be fine. Does your sister know how you describe her?

Will look lovely with heels and a clutch. Maybe a chunky sloaney headband rather than a fascinator?

I went to a wedding recently where a guest had something similar in the same colour. Wore an orange and green fascinator and orange shoes.
Looked great.

Agree that it looks like a day dress.

I wore a not formal enough ( inexpensive ) dress for a wedding recently, while people were In their £1000 glorious outfits. Oops

Lovely dress
I can't stop laughing at the fat sister 🤣

How will you feel though ? Comfortable? Are you on a budget just now? Will you be wishing you bought something new?I think it's too informal for the type of wedding you have described, sorry.

Lovely
Formal wedding I'd wear heel or wedges
Maybe a pashmina/ wrap
Something in my hair ...maybe same colour as wrap
Nice handbag

It’s a lovely day dress but too casual for a formal country house wedding.

The dress is lovely.

Fat sister is my favourite auto correct for a long time ! 😂

For me it’s too informal. I would wear it to work in the summer.

The dress is fine.
Fat sister may be my favourite auto correct ever.

Sorry, I'm another saying too informal. The pattern makes it very much a day time summer dress for me.
If you'll be comfortable, that's the most important thing but I'd feel self conscious that I was under dressed in it.

That’s a cracking auto correct 🤣

Aw that's nice. What's the sizing like? I'm between a 10 and 12...

It depends on the wedding - could be dressed up. I'd be inclined to put it with a sparkly belt, sparkly shoes and a hat or sparkly hair accessory. If it was a very posh wedding then I would possibly choose something else.

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I genuinely had started to figure out who would be so blatant to admit they choose less good looking people to stand with to make them look better 🤦‍♀️

Nice dress but very casual !

I don't think that's a valid comparison. Men's formal wear is all or nothing- women have more freedom.

I would wear that dress as an ordinary every day dress but equally I was watching guests come out of a church last week and there were dresses like that.

Lulu1919 · Yesterday 19:59

Lovely
Formal wedding I'd wear heel or wedges
Maybe a pashmina/ wrap
Something in my hair ...maybe same colour as wrap
Nice handbag

I agree with Lulu.

I think it would look great with some heels a bag and a chunky headband.

I think it looks too casual, because it's a shirt dress which is inherently casual, and because of the print. I don't think it's wedding material, sorry.

It’s nice but looks like a work dress to me and wouldn’t go with a fascinator etc.