PEOPLE have once again debated whether wearing white to a wedding is acceptable.
A Reddit user shared a picture of a bride and one of her wedding guests onto the subreddit ‘Wedding Shaming’ which shows both women, whose faces have been cropped, wearing white.
The post, posted three days ago, explains: “Bride is on the left, and her friend is on the right and not with the bridal party so the dress she wanted was all her choice.”
The user who posted it added: “BFF or not I would not like my friends doing this, and no one else wore a colour like this.”
The bride can be seen wearing a long white gown with a plunging neckline and floral embroidery while her friend wore a white, strapless, floor-length silk gown.
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The white wedding dress tradition goes all the way back to Queen Victoria who popularised brides wearing a white ensemble on their special day when she married Prince Albert in 1840.
Since then, it has generally been frowned upon for guests to wear white due to the potential of upsetting or upstaging the bride.
However, the fashion taboo hasn’t stopped Reddit users from defending the friend for wearing the colour.
One user penned: “I don’t understand the outrage here, as we do not have any info. What if the bride agreed?
“There are countries, cultures, where wearing white to a wedding is not a big faux pas, even if the bride is wearing white. And some people just do not care.”
Another said: “They look pretty cosy and friendly in the photo. Are we sure it wasn’t a black and/or white-themed wedding?”
A third wrote: “The bride took pics with her so she isn’t too upset.”
Plenty, though, saw it as an error of judgement with many bashing the guest for her choice of dress.
“You just KNOW she spent the night saying ‘it’s not actually white, it’s just champagne’,” said one Redditor.
A second said: “I thought they were a couple and thought it was cute until I noticed what sub I’m in, oh.”
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A third penned: “To wear white to someone else's wedding, you've either got to be as dumb as a box of frogs or malicious.”
“Screw that selfish guest,” a fourth said.
