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A woman accidentally wore a bridal-like dress to another person’s wedding, she wrote on Reddit
The wedding involved an Indian bride, so the woman thought her Western bridal-looking dress wouldn’t be an issue
“No one told me that the bride had decided to forgo Indian attire and wear traditionally Western wear,” she wrote
A woman is looking back on a questionable style choice for a wedding.
She took to Reddit’s “Wedding Shaming” forum to reflect on a wedding guest dress she regrets wearing. The woman wrote that she had no intention of upstaging the bride or stealing her spotlight, but she apparently misunderstood the dress code and brought an awkward situation upon herself, she stated.
She was attending an Indian wedding as a guest’s plus one, the woman wrote. She opted for a white, blush “very bridal looking dress,” but figured since traditional Indian weddings usually see the bride in more colorful, more ornate fashions, her dress would be okay.
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A bridal-looking dress.
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“Generally in Indian weddings, especially lavish ones, there’s NO WAY to upstage the bride,” the woman wrote. “But no one told me that the bride had decided to forgo Indian attire and wear traditionally Western bridal wear.”
On top of the surprise white wedding dress, the ceremony itself was “small and intimate.” The reception, on the other hand, welcomed roughly 250 people — and the woman said any other woman who came near her “glared like they wished I’d disappear.” And she wished she would, the woman admitted.
She spent her time at the reception glued to her seat, only standing for toasts and to use the restroom so she could conceal her big, white dress, which she shared a photo of within her Reddit post.
“It was so obviously bridal looking that when I was exiting the bathrooms, an old man said, ‘oh excuse me, I didn’t know there was more than one wedding taking place here today,'” the woman wrote.
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Eventually, she told the person she came with that it was best she leave, because “the bride didn’t deserve to feel disrespected,” even if it “wasn’t on purpose.” She asked her friend to get the couple’s mailing address so she could send a nice gift afterwards, as an apology.
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Bride
Commenters credited the woman’s honesty but cringed at the wedding mishap. One called the incident “the most horrid yet noble confession I’ve seen on Reddit.”
An Indian Reddit user added that the woman’s assumption — that you can’t upstage the bride at an Indian wedding — was very correct. “In fact, we love it when our guests dress to the nines,” they wrote, and said they wouldn’t blame her for an honest mistake.
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