A girl is getting married and has an ivory wedding dress. Mother of the bride has been looking to buy something very nice to wear for her daughter's wedding. She finds a beautiful white blouse and top, which would be worn with black slacks. She is worried it might not be appropriate, especially since the bride is wearing ivory, she would be wearing something whiter than the bride. Should she find something else to wear, or is wearing white ok???
2006-10-13 10:03:12 · 18 answers · asked by chalinsumner 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Someone wrote: "No, you should'nt wear white unless you are the mother of the bride." In case I didn't make it clear, this IS the mother of the bride. But from the answers it seems to me that no one should wear white but the bride.
2006-10-13 10:32:14 · update #1
No, please try to find something else, it is the bride's perogative to wear white, and only she gets to. If she chooses not to, fine, but still nobody gets to.
Is there a money problem? Or a finding the clothes in the right size problem? Or mom has to wear pants due to health issues?Those are a whole different set of problems.. In large sizes, like 5-6x, there is a very limited number of selections, let alone something nice. If the brides mom can not find anything else, that is the only clothing she can find in her size, there is no problem, that is the way it is, and the bride (the only one who really gets an opinion anyway] knows that, there is the problem
If Mom is "normal' sized, has adequate funds, is in good health, can wear a dress, then maybe something else would be more appropriate.There are lots of pants options out there, palazzo pants are back in. Mom does not have to wear something totally uncomfortable. And there are some really snazzy dressy pants suits out there, too.
2006-10-13 12:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by riversconfluence 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My son just got married - no one wears white other than the bride. If you find something that fits, is dressy AND you can afford - it's a miracle. It would be really crummy to get to that point and have it be the wrong color! Took me WEEKS and weeks to find the right thing. Now looking at the wedding photos, I'm not sure anything I wore would have looked ok. :(
2006-10-13 11:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by MissHazel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask the bride, if she does not mind, no problem, if she does, find something else.
In my opinion wearing a white top and black slacks is too much like the uniform of most catering companies for their staff
2006-10-13 11:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No noone wears white at the wedding except the bride or people in the wedding, also noone should wear the same color as the bridesmaids...since the top is white she should consider dying it
2006-10-13 10:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is just not fair to the bride at all. It ish her day to wear the white, plus if it is the Mother ofhte Bride it is really really even worse. And pants -- not a good idea in my book either.
2006-10-13 10:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
DON'T WEAR:
White. (This rule has relaxed some, and you can get away with wearing a printed dress with a white background and some cream colored clothing. Just be careful not to upstage the bride.)
Black to a daytime wedding
Jeans
Anything too sexy or revealing
Anything torn, with holes, stained, too big or too small for you!
Anything sleeveless or strapless to a religious wedding. Bring a wrap to cover your shoulders.
2006-10-13 10:07:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In western way of existence, the bride's white gown has come to characterize virginity. yet in accordance to three recent information, there are not a number of of virgin brides anymore -- yet nonetheless the white gown prevails. some uptight traditionalists might desire to declare that's incorrect to positioned on white while you're no longer a virgin, yet truthfully, virginity became no longer the unique meaning of the white gown. The custom of donning white isn't even that previous, rather. It gained acceptance whilst Queen Victoria of england married Albert of Saxe-Coberg in 1840, donning a white dress to comprise some lace that she owned. at that factor, a white wedding ceremony gown became rather uncommon, and not an illustration of purity, yet an illustration of wealth -- for purely very rich women might desire to have sufficient funds a gown that would desire to by no ability be worn back (cleansing a white gown became no longer rather consumer-friendly in 1840). even with the incontrovertible fact that many copied the queen's style for his or her own weddings, it nonetheless wasn't till the mid-twentieth century that white got here to dominate the marriage gown industry, as photos and video clips from weddings of the worldwide's wealthiest and maximum fashionable rather unfold the style. rather, the white gown became greater an emblem of conceitedness than virginity. in the previous Victoria, brides married in very almost any coloration, different than black, the colour of mourning, and pink, which became linked with prostitutes. Brides who needed to positioned on an emblem of their purity wore blue.
2016-10-02 06:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by riesgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No other lady, except the bride is to wear white. If she is wearing ivory, respect that.
The wedding is the bride's day. It is rude to, in any way try to outshine her.
2006-10-13 11:13:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NNNNNOOOOO NONONONONONONONO
you are never ever ever suppose to wear white to a wedding that's just how it is no matter what the bride is wearing you do not DO NOT wear white to a wedding.
2006-10-13 10:11:37 · answer #9 · answered by Trish H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you should'nt wear white unless you are the mother of the bride.
2006-10-13 10:27:27 · answer #10 · answered by mandylynn77 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋