When you attend a wedding as a guest, there are a lot of factors to consider when selecting your outfit for a friend's special day.
It's essential to choose an ensemble that distinguishes itself from the bride's attire, ensuring you don't unintentionally mirror her style.
Additionally, if the wedding takes place in a religious setting, it's advisable to opt for a reasonably modest outfit. Furthermore, the couple might have a specific colour scheme, and adhering to it is generally expected.
One woman however has been left wracked with guilt 20 years later after realising that her wedding guest dress was "inappropriate" and it had left her "quietly cringing," the Mirror reports.
The woman took to Mumsnet, sharing that she wanted to apologise to her friend, but since it was so many years ago, she didn't want to remind her friend what a "n**" she'd been.
She wrote: "I know now that the dress I wore to my best friend's wedding was inappropriate, and since I realised, I've been quietly cringing.
"I even did a reading at the church in it. Don't ask how I didn't realise at the time it was inappropriate - I was just an idiot, I suppose, and genuinely it didn't cross my mind that 'dress for wedding' and 'dress to go out in' differed."
The woman then asked if it might be unreasonable to apologise 20 years later.
People flocked to the comments to reassure the woman that what she had worn was in fact totally appropriate for a wedding.
One wrote: "It's nice! There is nothing wrong with it. I bet she didn't notice what you wore anyhow."
Another questioned: "What are you on about? What's wrong with that dress? I'm peering at it struggling to see what has caused such a dramatic reaction 20 years later... just looks like a fairly standard red dress to me."
Someone else, however, did think is was not an appropriate dress for a wedding, commenting: "I shall go against the flow here and I agree with you that is not appropriate for a wedding, that is a cocktail dress. But there really is no need to apologise now."
Despite this comment, the general consensus was that the dress was “fine” though.
The original poster wrote back: "Ooh, I wasn't expecting to be reassured about it - thank you! That's very welcome. Perhaps I can actually stop cringing then - even better!"
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