A bride has labelled one of her wedding guests “trashy”, after the guest wore a gold dress to the nuptials.
But the guest has expressed her shock at the bride’s description of her — and has turned to the internet for assurance that she was not in the wrong with her choice of outfit.
The wedding guest explained on Reddit that she had been long-time best friends with the groom.
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And she said that, despite only ever having had a platonic relationship with him, his now-wife had always disliked her.
“In the three years of them dating, I was never allowed to see (him) alone because she always thought it was suspicious that I wanted to hang out with him,” the woman wrote.
“Despite me being happily married, she always kept me at an arm’s length.”
The woman said that although her friend had spoken to his partner multiple times, she would always “revert to complaining about him being friends with a girl”.
The woman added: “It’s not ideal but I have made peace with it because she makes my friend happy”.
She said that when it came to the wedding, she was originally going to be in the groom’s party.
But the bride objected and said “a wedding is not a place to swap gender roles”.
She explained that her friend fought his partner on this, but the woman told him she would just attend as a guest to keep the peace.
The dress code for the wedding was ‘warm toned garden party’, and guests were encouraged to wear “earthy warm colours”.
She picked out a gold dress from Australian women’s clothing retailer Hello Molly to wear.
But the bride took issue with the woman’s choice of dress, and said: “I cannot believe you would wear gold to my wedding. You’re not the first prize, you’re just f*****g trashy”.
“I was so shocked in the moment, I just stared at her,” the woman said on the Reddit thread.
“She practically screamed at me to leave, and she was drawing attention.
“So I grabbed my husband, said goodbye to my friend and left.”
The woman said the groom reached out to her and told her he was upset she had left the wedding so soon.
She also said that the bride’s mother had texted her saying “she had ruined the wedding for her daughter” and she was “stupid for wearing gold” and that it “was as bad as wearing white”.
“I was genuinely not aware this was a thing, I want to reach out to my friend to explain, but I don’t know if I am in the wrong here?” the woman asked.
Her post received more than 1,000 comments and people were quick to side with her and call out the bride.
“No gold dresses at weddings isn’t a thing. It’s 100 per cent the bride and her obvious history of hating this woman for being friends with her man,” said one.
“Definitely wear the same dress to the divorce party,” said another.
“I feel sorry for your friend. However, if I knew that my friend’s bride was jealous and suspicious of me, I would not have worn that dress. It’s lovely, and most occasions would have been fine.”
But another seemed to think the woman had antagonised with her choice of dress.
“Low cut with a lace up back is maybe not the right choice if you are trying to get in the good graces of a jealous bride,” the commenter wrote.
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