Imzadi
♥ Saved by an angel in a trench coat!
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2004
I don't think it matters what color guests wear. I wore black to my own wedding.
Well, I wore a black dress to my own wedding!
This reminds me of an extremely short-lived, cable, reality TV series on helping real life couple have their dream wedding on TV, with only a few days to organize the whole thing.
For one episode, the bride was very goth, and at other times into wearing bright, zany, off-beat clothes and had tattoos all over her body. However, because she was that way in all other areas of her life, she really wanted for her wedding to be the ONE DAY where she would be traditional and wear a traditional, simple, white wedding dress. It was her ONE REQUEST of the whole wedding planning. She didn't care what anyone else would wear.
As the host went over the dresses available, it turned out the maid of honor had brought her own bright red, strapless ballgown that had a huge poufy, Cinderella skirt, to wear as her dress. It was stunningly beautiful. It literally out-shown the plain-ish white wedding dresses the host/wedding planner brought for the bride.
In the absence of time (and probably budget,) the host decided to switch out any white dress he brought and replace it with the red ballgown and make the maid of honor wear something else that was plainer.
The maid of honor vehemently fought for the bride to wear a white gown as that's what she requested, but she was out voted. The host said she can't wear a dress more stunning than the bride. The BEST dress available was the one she had brought with her. His reasoning was: plus the bride wore brilliant colors every other day of her life. She'd love that her wedding dress was a bright color too.
Fast forward to the wedding day: the bride is shown the red dress she is to put on. She's in shock, to say the least. As she's putting it on, she says it must be a joke. (She even likes whatever else the maid of honor was given instead.) She's waiting for someone to tell her she's being punked and then a white dress brought out for her. She's crying.
Nope. No white dress brought out for her.
She goes to the ceremony and it's clear she is very depressed. It's all over her face. It was a REAL wedding, with a real minister there to marry the bride and groom in front of their families, not a fake wedding. So, even if they decide later to have another wedding and do it THEIR way once the show is over, THIS is their first and real wedding. She is clearly crushed.
Needless to say, the show didn't last long. Maybe 4-6 episodes.