Funny/unusual/hard-to-decipher wedding dress codes

snowball
Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:09:24 +0000

If a wedding was black tie or black tie optional, my husband would always chose to wear his tux; he just preferred it to a suit. We had a friends son’s wedding many years ago and I told H that it was black tie. I hadn’t looked at the invitation since receiving it 2 months before. Turns out the dress was cocktail and the only other men in a tux were the waitstaff!

H got a good bit of ribbing from friends, but handled it well. I felt guilty as it was my fault, and the black dress I had on worked for anything from cocktail to black tie.