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

zeebamom
Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:09:16 +0000

The wedding attire subreddit can be an awful lot of fun.

It struck me last year when my daughter was looking for a dress, well, a weekend’s worth of dresses for a big wedding in France, that casual, cocktail, black tie optional, festive, and black tie can all mean the same thing to some people. Throw in a wedding in a European country and some European guests and it can be a real muddle.

Coordinating all of the guest attire to the wedding colors seems to be a thing. Also, some are very particular that there be no white at all on a dress.

My niece’s wedding was at a country club with a dress code. The father of the groom wore jeans.