Strapless reserved for bride?

Re: Strapless reserved for bride?

• majesty318 member

  

  February 2014

  Black tie preferred is ridiculous and a bride having dibs on strapless is, too. Wear a cocktail dress, strapless if you like!
  

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• hyechica81 member

  

  February 2014

  you can wear whatever you want they want you in black tie they should have said black tie. this wording gives you the option to wear what you want.
  
  as for the style of the dress you can wear strapless or straps. the only thing i would stay away from is white or ivory
  
  get something semi formal but not to formal so you don't go broke on the dress. scout out sales and salons that might have sale cocktail dresses
  

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• hikebikebemerry member

  

  February 2014

  If the bride would get upset about someone wearing a strapless dress... she needs to rethink her priorities or get smacked back to reality.

  
  

  And you're not even positive if she's wearing a strapless dress?  With this logic, you should also be careful if you have your hair in a similar style to the bride (hair down in curls being reserved... oh please.)

  
  

  Black tie preferred means nothing.  They basically wrote, "We want a super fancy wedding, but don't want to pay for it.  So instead, we shall use you as props to make our wedding look super fancy".

  

  
  

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• Maggie0829 member

  

  February 2014

  The bride having dibs on strapless is like her saying that she has dibs on her hair being down or her being the only one to wear pink lipstick.  Wear whatever you want.  And the black tied preferred is crap.

  
  

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• MobKaz member

  

  February 2014

  lenergyrlah said:

  I'm attending a friend's wedding in March.  The wedding is at an estate, starts at 4:30 and dress code is "black tie preferred" (???)  Anyway I was looking at a few long dresses and DH said strapless isn't appropriate because the bride might be wearing a strapless dress so it should be reserved for her.  I hadn't heard of that before.  Obviously I won't show up in white or anything that looks like a wedding dress, but should I avoid strapless as well?

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• hyechica81 member

  

  February 2014

  poster meant her dh was not found of her wearing strapless not the bride
  

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• doeydo member

  

  February 2014

  If the ceremony was in a place of worship I would bring a wrap or something to cover my shoulders just as a respect sort of thing, but that is about it.  Go strapless if you want.

  
  

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