This dress for Spring wedding with "wedding chic" dress code?

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Would love your thoughts on this dress for a Spring wedding at a nice hotel just outside of London, with a "wedding chic" dress code please.

I've tried it on and it fits very well and is flattering and can be styled dressier with some jewellery and nice heels. Is it occasion-appropriate?

hopeandivy.co.uk/collections/wedding-guest/products/the-kyra

Not chic in my view. Somewhat in your face embroidery and money saved by the plain back and polyester. There’s way better tea dresses if that is what you want. Not sure thigh split is chic either.

It feels a bit "lease dress nicely, u can't trust you to do it without direction". But she's your friend and you like her so you know best how she means it

That’s so paranoid. I really struggle to comprehend how people read such malicious intent into innocuous and fairly standard comments and then take offense. Life must be a constant watch out and stress for you all.

Tbf I think the kind of people who have these dress codes probably don’t have friends who wouldn’t understand the brief.
They’re always colour or style coded instagrammable photos of people who exactly fit together, like a made in Chelsea set, an ‘impromptu’ night out where they’re all wearing complementary colours , hair and clothes

I just think that’s a horrible thing to say and so overthinking it, having a dress code is very standard, to many things. It really doesn’t mean you can’t trust your friends or are a social media hound.

people need to stop overthinking basic crap and looking for something to attack over.

I don't think "wedding chic" implies all that you've assumed? It's fairly innocuous (if a bit meaningless).

If they really wanted to control things that much, it would have been "Pink Maxi Dresses & White Dinner Suits Only", or something equally un "chic"!!!

Yes it's lovely - I wanted to wear a solar hope & ivy dress to a wedding last summer but it didn't suit me ( big boobs and wrap style often don't work).

I’m genuinely quite stunned as some of the reactions, people thinking it means they’ve no friends, don’t trust their friends, just want an insta wedding,

it’s as innocuous and gentle as it gets, there is nothing for some of the rage shown or the over thinking looking for malicious intent

I've seen people come to a wedding in jeans. They're the people this superfluous instruction is aimed at. Love the dress.

the desription says open back :)

Dress is fine but polyester is never chic

I’ve got it here with me and it’s not open back, so definitely a description and photo error - pretty shabby of them.

I know someone who HAD to wear his jeans to a wedding. When he arrived at his hotel the morning of the wedding & unpacked his dinner suit (which he hadn't worn in years), he discovered that moths had eaten the crotch away ...

Oh dear 😅

A dress code isn't a problem- black tie, formal, smart casual are all dress codes but wedding chic isn't, unless I've missed the memo, which I may well have! I would be second guessing what I'm wearing and whether it is deemed chic! As a pp said one person's chic is different from another's.
OP you are going for dressy, spring/summer wedding atyle and that's all you can do and I'm sure you'll look lovely.

I think putting a dress code on the invite is becoming increasingly common, many online templates will even include space for it. I’d consider ‘wedding chic’ to just mean ‘dress for a wedding’. The least offensive dresscode they could have come up with.

OP I love hope and Ivy dresses, I think they’re so beautiful. I wore one of their maternity dresses to a friend’s wedding while pregnant a couple of years ago and felt really lovely and appropriately dressed despite not being at my best. I think the one you’ve linked to is lovely and very suitable.

There is a metaphor for the state of his love life (as well as the dinner suit) in there somewhere ...

It’s lovely. ❤️

What is ‘chic’ though? I genuinely wouldn’t understand the phrase on the invitation.

But then I usually wear black to weddings and apparently that is unacceptable as I have only just found out.

Chic just means elegant or sophisticated and no you should not wear black or white to a wedding.

black is the colour of mourning. And it is seen as bad luck or disapproval of the marriage if you wear it to a wedding.

white as It is seen as disrespectful to the bride.

I wouldn’t wear white but I wear black every day of my life and always have done. I’ve always worn black to weddings, no one has ever said anything, I’ve never heard of these rules till now. Apparently you shouldn’t wear red or purple either. I don’t remember what a single person wore to my wedding except for me and my husband. I think it’s all so daft.

In western culture red and purple are fine, and no no one would say anything to you. They’d just side eye you. I think though maybe if you’re a goth it would be expected, which I’m guessing you are if you were black every day

I have seen red and purple be dismissed for weddings on these very boards! And on social media. Red is apparently too bold and attention-demanding and purple is the colour of royalty. I think apart from white wear whatever colour you want, alll these rules are weird and god knows how people are supposed to know what they all are!

I’ve worn black to weddings too and colours to funerals. It’s really not a big deal unless it explicitly goes against the couples wishes.

Oh god but it is just so cringey! What does “developer chic” even mean 🤣

Wedding chic has to be the most pointless dress code pointer I’ve ever heard. You already know you’re going to a wedding and need to wear wedding-y type clothes. The ‘chic’ adds nothing except making the bride and groom sound unhinged.

Unhinged? Oh for goodness sake.