Wearing a hat, avoiding white and dialling down the sexiness are no longer mandatory. Instead take inspiration from the bridal couple’s style cues
A whole bunch of the traditional rules about what a wedding guest should or should not wear are now obsolete. Take hats. Time was when hats were such a nailed-on part of weddings that “buying a hat” was another way of saying you were invited to one. These days, while a wedding gives you licence to wear a hat if the fancy takes you, unless the ceremony is taking place in a cathedral, it certainly doesn’t raise eyebrows to go without – if anything, a hat wearer will look like a daring outlier.
Other rules have loosened, too. To turn up in white would once have been considered not much short of a declaration of war on the bride; now, an all-white dress code is sometimes requested by the happy couple. To wear black would have seemed a strange and pointed choice a decade or two ago, but the rise of the evening wedding, and the influence of the US, where “black tie” is a standard wedding dress code, has blurred this edict also.
Continue reading… Wearing a hat, avoiding white and dialling down the sexiness are no longer mandatory. Instead take inspiration from the bridal couple’s style cuesA whole bunch of the traditional rules about what a wedding guest should or should not wear are now obsolete. Take hats. Time was when hats were such a nailed-on part of weddings that “buying a hat” was another way of saying you were invited to one. These days, while a wedding gives you licence to wear a hat if the fancy takes you, unless the ceremony is taking place in a cathedral, it certainly doesn’t raise eyebrows to go without – if anything, a hat wearer will look like a daring outlier.Other rules have loosened, too. To turn up in white would once have been considered not much short of a declaration of war on the bride; now, an all-white dress code is sometimes requested by the happy couple. To wear black would have seemed a strange and pointed choice a decade or two ago, but the rise of the evening wedding, and the influence of the US, where “black tie” is a standard wedding dress code, has blurred this edict also. Continue reading… Wedding dresses, Fashion, Weddings, Life and style
