Could I wear this outfit to a Christmas Eve wedding?

[CathyBlowsBubbles]

Could I wear this to a late afternoon Christmas Eve wedding? Friends are getting married this year and I’ve left it very late to get an outfit. I want to look glam casual as that’s the stated vibe. DH going black tie. Plan would be matching shoes and an ivory coloured calf length faux fur coat that I already own. Concerns are that it looks inappropriate for a wedding or that it’s too light or close to bridal colours. Opinions please.

I'm really not. Look at most celebrity/society weddings and you will see what I'm talking about.

The Light dress is gorgeous but I'd check with the bride first if she'd mind you wearing that the colour. The red one is beautiful too & ideal for the festive time of the wedding. I'd definitely wear either for a wedding on Christmas Eve.

It really isn't weird.

Society weddings that just isn't true.

Celebrity weddings maybe. Anything to be looked at.

Yes, it is. This place is like the Twilight Zone at times, people are stuck in the late twentieth century (at best!)

It doesn't look bridal to me either Op.

The red is lovely though.

Let's hope the bride isn't in red!

The OP is clearly in the UK though, so talking about one wedding you went to on a different continent is immaterial. There's massive cultural variation in wedding norms. We all know there are some situations in which this wouldn't be an issue, it's just you're the only one who thought that was helpful after it was pointed out you were full of shit by people who go to more weddings than you do.

If the dress code is black & white, then it's fairly clear the bride & groom are encouraging white outfits...

Meanwhile, the rest of the white-wedding-dress wearing world does, in fact maintain the view that anyone turning up to a wedding in a white-adjacent frock at someone else's wedding is a self-absorbed diva without a shred of respect for their host.

See also...the 'wedding of the year' 2025.

I'm sorry it is beautiful, but also not only white, but looks bridal. Do they have it in another colour?

Probably. We are not near London or a cosmopolitan city, more like somewhere to move to when you’ve had enough of those bustling places.

Oof that dress is not flattering. Bet she suffered painful stomach cramps 😬 My days of the ‘suffer for your beauty’ mindset is long gone, thank gawd. 😁

Cancel the cheque!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

The red one is gorgeous, sounds like it'll be lovely with your coat for a Christmas wedding!

In another colour then yes.

Lol, that's Kylie Jenner. She looks like a stuffed sausage, as she always does no matter what she wears!

It comes in plenty of colours choose another not white/cream

No.

No. Its white.

Oops, now RTFT. The Burgundy is great. 🤣

What a treat you must be to have as a guest at any wedding...the true embodiment of etiquette from the perpetually online generation?

of course you can

Nope. Get it in another colour.

It would be ok in another colour but white/ off white is a big no no for a wedding

The red will be lovely but I suspect all eyes will be on the dopes in the tuxedos trying to dress them down with white trainers.

Well done to @CathyBlowsBubbles for fully taking on board what the majority of people said, very early on in this thread.

I agree with most, the 'wine coloured' outfit is lovely and very appropriate for a Christmas Eve wedding.

However
DH is wearing black tie but with new white trainers.

This ^ MUST be a wind up, surely ?

I mean, I went to a wedding last year where a lad wore a suit and trainers, but, as he was about 13 and in that uncomfortable 'I don't look right in anything' age, people smiled benevolently, and said at least he's here and he's understood that it is the right thing to do, to dress up, even if trainers weren't quite right. Because, at 13 you have some leeway.
If your dh is a husband though, I've got to presume he isn't a gangly awkward teen boy, so should know better.
Even more so with 'black tie'.

Am now beginning to thing this whole thread has been a wind up.

🤣 Not a wind up, no. There’s 5 of them dressing the same. However, since I first mentioned this thread to DH, he’s now considering dropping the black tie suit and just wearing a nice suit, black shirt, no tie but still with trainers. I think he’s taking inspiration from DD’s prom this summer where virtually all the lads wore smart trainers with suits. Plus, he’s trying to match both the ‘glam’ and the ‘casual’ bit of the dress code. 😆 Maybe he’s having a midlife crisis! 😉