Is this dress too white for a wedding guest?

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Hello all, I'm attending a good friend's wedding in couple of months and have purchased this dress as an option for the big day. For context the wedding is in Australia at a beach location so not super formal in dress code and a lot of the other guests will be wearing similar styles, so please no comments about it being too risqué for a wedding. Aussie weddings tend to be less traditional than British ones and slip dresses are commonly worn. My concern is that there is a lot of white on this dress so not sure if appropriate and I do not want to offend the bride. I would ask her but I'm friends with her fiancé and don't know her very well.

www.johansenofficial.com/collections/dresses/products/lilou-dress-hibiscus-print-blue?variant=44110010155230

To be fair that looks a very minimal cream background on my screen, and not remotely white.

Fair enough. I shouldn't of said it was white as I agree now looking again it isn't. Wedding was years ago. I just know I was paranoid at the time and asked friends for advice, who said it was fine. So even though it is cream, I still felt paranoid because it's a lighter colour/could maybe look more white in certain lights at first glance, and knew that some people have very firm opinions on wearing any white. Which I guess has proven to be true in this thread!

Anyway, my opinion is first dress OP posted is fine.

It looks lovely!

All this can't wear this / cant wear that is nonsense. My wedding dress was pal blue, i didnt ban the wearing of pale blue because i am not an arse. Clearly it is not a wedding dress.

As for the neckline comments, please! Clearly jealous of a good set 😅

It’s clearly not a wedding dress. I think it’s fine, if add blue accessories, hat or Fascinator.

I only read the first sentence before I opened the link and all I could think was “she’s going to catch her death wearing that for a wedding in the next few months”…

Then read the rest of the paragraph. OP looks lovely and very suitable for a beach wedding in Australia. One of my parents siblings emigrated to Australia. I’ve been to 3 beach weddings of cousins now and this would have been a very suitable dress (unlike the 2 piece dress suit and hat one of my Aunt’s insisted on wearing).

Are we all looking at the same dress?? It doesn't look remotely like a wedding dress. It's fine.

Someone actually wore a long white dress to my wedding...and then got photographs of her and her boyfriend taken coming out of the church. Was very weird. 😂

No too white, but personally I think the size of the print would be wrong for your petite figure. The second dress would probably be better in my opinion.

Lovely dress and sounds great for the occasion you describe.

It's got massive blue flowers on it, there's no way it's remotely bridal!

It's not remotely bridal. It has lots of blue. It's fine.

Navy bag, shoes and hat/fascinator will bring it together and absolutely nobody with half a brain cell would even give it any thought.

what a nasty comment

For the love of god people - 7 pages in and nobody has posted a link to the Joanie dresses?!

😂