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What a gorgeous dress. You look amazing and I hope you post the entire outfit. I am jealous that you thrifted such a great dress.

4 months ago

Beautiful dress, YLF! I love the flower brooch too. Yay for sustainable thrifted choices. I’m always impressed by your ability to wear such high heels though! Not for me

4 months ago

Stunning and totally appropriate. I find the pastels / floral request strange as lots of people don't like wearing those.

4 months ago

Gorgeous dress! I love what your invitation would say .

4 months ago

You look awesome, wonderful dress on you.

4 months ago

You are gorgeous in the blue gown, and I agree with everyone who said the floral/pastel thing is optional, and that a floral accessory would be a nice and totally sufficient nod to it.

I have seen invitations like this before, especially among my SIL’s social circle (30-somethings in LA). It’s not even limited to weddings—seems like any big celebration is fair game. There’s usually a photo booth at these parties too. I’m starting to wonder if some guests actually enjoy participating, sort of like a costume party.

4 months ago

You are stunning in that dress. The bag, brooch, and shoes are perfect accompaniments. Wowza.

4 months ago

So fab. I think you’ve hit a triple—picking something you yourself love, looking smashing in it, and getting an amazing price for it. What a confidence- boosting plus perfect wardrobe curation. Let others gnash their teeth at wishing they had also followed their hearts and good sense, or, hopefully, you will observe other ladies in various outfits that are perfectly appropriate for an evening dressy wedding and perfectly right for them.

4 months ago

Thank y'all so much for weighing in, and your loving comments <3

@LJP - WOW, that is INSANE. Did the planner include screenshots and affiliate links of where to buy pale green formalwear and grey suits? And she had to get two dresses?? I'm trying not to judge, but seriously, that's pretty over-the-top.

@Echo - "guests are not props". Right? I have heard similar stories from friends who have been to some crazy weddings where guests were looked at in that way. I will say, this bride is so sweet and lovely, and I've known her since she was a teenager. I think it will be a beautiful wedding <3

@Brooklyn - I'm inclined to agree that the request is to gently steer folks away from wearing black.

@Debbie - that dress was a lucky find. Someone opened a curated secondhand shop near my hairdresser, and it's always been closed when I've been in the area for hair appointments (it takes 40 minutes to get there from my house. It happened to be open when I went in for a haircut. I wasn't even looking! I was planning to wear - you guessed it - a long vintage black dress. LOL. (But that dress does have colorful Asian-themed embroidery and I was going to wear floral shoes). But the dress I was going to wear has long sleeves, which doesn't pair well with "August wedding".

4 months ago

Gawgeous!! Yes, you must wear that fabulous dress.

4 months ago

ooh la la! Perfect ! And no, no links were provided, lol. DD picked up two dresses on sale and fortunately they both worked. People are insane .

4 months ago

Screw the dress code, you look amazing!

4 months ago

You look gorgeous!!! The dress is perfect for a wedding.

4 months ago

Even before seeing the dress, I thought it would be absolutely appropriate for a wedding. Now I can say you look stunning in it. I like your floral brooch. (Can I say that I find this request ridiculous? Formal attire - ok, but all the remaining ...ridiculous).

4 months ago

OH MY LANDS!!! KILLER! You will make everyone wish they had left their floral dresses at home!! I looooove the accessories and shoes too. This is epic!!


Your dress gives me Rosemary Clooney vibes too!! I'm actually so glad you mentioned her dress and scene from White Christmas. I adore that movie.

As for the dress code requirements, I admit we have only attended three weddings in the last 9 years. Everyone was dressed very casually. II understand wanting people to wear more than jeans or leggings, but I really don't understand putting such limitations on people.

Weddings are overly curated now, I so agree. It always ends up feeling so overly staged that it loses authenticity to me somehow. I'm all about buying a pretty dress, having cake and punch in the church basement, and going on your way. :]

4 months ago

Absolutely lovely you are in that dress.

4 months ago

I love your velvet dress and shoes-perfect for the formal request (Angie is right you can skip the pastel/florals request, that could have been legitimate maybe say for the bridemaids, only...-same for LJP's daughter's case-what an ill idea for coordinating all attendees outfits-and really did it work IRL???) Hope you had a blast! I still owe a report from my last time attending a wedding in family (our niece, last August, in Netherland) but all I can say it was fably organised and a gorgeous experience. (Will start a thread maybe some others will pic inspo of that)

4 months ago

Mary Beth, I’m dying to know… how did it go? What about the other guests?
Please spill the beans?!

4 months ago

Late to the party here...You look sensational in that dress! And what a find. I too am curious how it all went. Hope it was great.

The other trend I've noticed is destination weddings where everyone has to fly off to a country or a tropical island where none of you, even the bride and groom, live. Maybe the world of SM puts so much pressure on young people...having to post the moment of the proposal, the wedding, the baby. Curating everything, as with "props" ! Sounds absolutely exhausting to me.

4 months ago
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