# Wedding outfit fails

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-outfit-fails/758335>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 25, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-outfit-fails/758335 "2016-06-25T17:51:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-outfit-fails/758335/21 "2016-06-28T13:10:20Z")

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> [@Baker](#):
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> Can I tell a story of non-matching outfits that worked? I know, I know, it’s a hijack, but as others have said, why the emphasis on stuff that matches?

What a friend of mine did was she asked her attendants to wear navy, but whatever style was comfortable. Most of us wore outfits we already owned. The men just wore plain dark suits and white shirts. She wore a cream pantsuit because she hates dresses and her husband wore a pinstripe suit.

It was her second marriage. She’d been forced by her parents to have an extravaganza the first time around and she was determined to have things as fuss-free as possible the second time around.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-outfit-fails/758335/22 "2016-06-28T15:45:19Z")

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> [@Azeotrope](#):
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> Not any more! 😃 After the marriage broke up my mother took all the photos from the wedding and threw them away, and I doubt my brother’s ex held onto them either.
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> Of course, the formal portrait of me and the junior groomsman, who I met the night before at the rehersal dinner and didn’t like at all, had somehow gotten torn to bits and flushed down the toilet years beforehand. 😉

Oh my gosh! Something similar happened to my 9th grade yearbook photos! Somehow. 😉

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-outfit-fails/758335/23 "2016-06-28T22:41:19Z")

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My boss got married in Hawaii. Photos of his wedding show that all male attendees wore Hawaiian shirts, shorts and flipflops. All the women wore bright Hawaiian print dresses of their own choosing.

Exceptions: the bride wore a long, somewhat fancier floral print dress, and my boss wore long chinos rather than shorts.

That was the coolest looking wedding I ever saw.

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