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Re: wearing black
By: Lilipons Date: October 12, 2020, 9:21 am
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According to my Grandmother, God made the sky blue so blue goes
with every color.
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Re: wearing black
By: holly firestorm Date: October 17, 2020, 1:29 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1887.msg58738#msg58738
date=1602265402]
I was born in the 60's and black was not to be worn to weddings.
But by the 90's you were starting to see it. In '94, I was a
bridesmaid where the bride selected black velveteen dresses for
us. In the 2000s, I attended many weddings were guests and MOB
or MOG were in black.
Now at evening weddings, I'd say at least a third of the women
are dressed in black.
[/quote]
My friend also requested that I get a long black dress to be her
Maid of Honor.
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Re: wearing black
By: Aleko Date: October 18, 2020, 2:04 am
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[quote]I was born in the 60's and black was not to be worn to
weddings. But by the 90's you were starting to see it. In '94, I
was a bridesmaid where the bride selected black velveteen
dresses for us. In the 2000s, I attended many weddings were
guests and MOB or MOG were in black.
Now at evening weddings, I'd say at least a third of the women
are dressed in black.[/quote]
That's amazing. It definitely isn't the case over here.
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Re: wearing black
By: Gellchom Date: October 18, 2020, 12:47 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=1887.msg59129#msg59129
date=1603004686]
[quote]I was born in the 60's and black was not to be worn to
weddings. But by the 90's you were starting to see it. In '94, I
was a bridesmaid where the bride selected black velveteen
dresses for us. In the 2000s, I attended many weddings were
guests and MOB or MOG were in black.
Now at evening weddings, I'd say at least a third of the women
are dressed in black.[/quote]
That's amazing. It definitely isn't the case over here.
[/quote]
You’re in the UK, though, right? And aren’t most weddings in
the daytime there? Evening is much more common here, at least
in my community, so the black I’m talking about is party
clothes. You’d see way less black in the US at a daytime
wedding, too.
If there is a party at night, still no black?
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Re: wearing black
By: bigbadbetty Date: October 19, 2020, 6:24 pm
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I am almost 50 from the Midwest. I remembering being told that
as kid. However, by college (1990s), it no longer seemed to be
thing.
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Re: wearing black
By: Aleko Date: October 20, 2020, 9:53 am
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[quote]You’re in the UK, though, right? And aren’t most
weddings in the daytime there? Evening is much more common
here, at least in my community, so the black I’m talking about
is party clothes. You’d see way less black in the US at a
daytime wedding, too.
If there is a party at night, still no black?[/quote]
Bear in mind that if you hold a wedding in the U.K, unless it’s
in a very remote location the majority of the guests can
probably set off from their homes in the morning and get home
the same night. That means they have no hotel room to change in.
So if you’re planning to have dancing and a party going on till
late you’ll probably have the wedding ceremony in the early
afternoon, dinner in the early evening, with dancing to follow.
Whatever the guests turned up wearing, they wear till they go
home.
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Re: wearing black
By: Hmmm Date: October 20, 2020, 11:11 am
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=1887.msg59211#msg59211
date=1603205637]
[quote]You’re in the UK, though, right? And aren’t most
weddings in the daytime there? Evening is much more common
here, at least in my community, so the black I’m talking about
is party clothes. You’d see way less black in the US at a
daytime wedding, too.
If there is a party at night, still no black?[/quote]
Bear in mind that if you hold a wedding in the U.K, unless it’s
in a very remote location the majority of the guests can
probably set off from their homes in the morning and get home
the same night. That means they have no hotel room to change in.
So if you’re planning to have dancing and a party going on till
late you’ll probably have the wedding ceremony in the early
afternoon, dinner in the early evening, with dancing to follow.
Whatever the guests turned up wearing, they wear till they go
home.
[/quote]
That's the same here. I'd say most evening weddings ceremonies
we attend start somewhere between 5 and 7pm before moving on to
the reception. If an afternoon ceremony, then the dress code is
usually more casual.
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Re: wearing black
By: Gellchom Date: October 20, 2020, 7:58 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1887.msg59213#msg59213
date=1603210310]
[quote author=Aleko link=topic=1887.msg59211#msg59211
date=1603205637]
[quote]You’re in the UK, though, right? And aren’t most
weddings in the daytime there? Evening is much more common
here, at least in my community, so the black I’m talking about
is party clothes. You’d see way less black in the US at a
daytime wedding, too.
If there is a party at night, still no black?[/quote]
Bear in mind that if you hold a wedding in the U.K, unless it’s
in a very remote location the majority of the guests can
probably set off from their homes in the morning and get home
the same night. That means they have no hotel room to change in.
So if you’re planning to have dancing and a party going on till
late you’ll probably have the wedding ceremony in the early
afternoon, dinner in the early evening, with dancing to follow.
Whatever the guests turned up wearing, they wear till they go
home.
[/quote]
That's the same here. I'd say most evening weddings ceremonies
we attend start somewhere between 5 and 7pm before moving on to
the reception. If an afternoon ceremony, then the dress code is
usually more casual.
[/quote]
And although I know there are exceptions in some communities,
it's much more common in the US, at least where I live, there is
never a gap between the ceremony and the reception. Sometimes
the reception is in a different venue, but everyone immediately
goes there from the ceremony. Most common would be something
like a 6:30 pm ceremony followed by a dinner reception, or 12 or
1 pm ceremony followed by a lunch or brunch reception.
Sometimes I see a 4:30 ceremony followed by a dinner reception;
people wear evening clothes (and I always feel kind of funny in
the car on the way there!). But the point is, either all
daytime or all evening, not a morning or early afternoon
ceremony and an evening reception.
So that may explain why black is less common in the UK; even
though a black party dress is fine for an evening reception, it
wouldn't be appropriate for a daytime ceremony, and a daytime
black outfit is more likely to look funereal.
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Re: wearing black
By: Sara Crewe Date: October 21, 2020, 1:08 am
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Raquel Welch wore low cut black with shoulder straps to her
son’s afternoon English church wedding to the daughter of a
famous cricketer.
Everyone else in the pictures is wearing typical British wedding
clothes with shoulders covered for church, she’s dressed for a
Hollywood party. There were *multiple* articles in the press
about how inappropriately she was dressed and it was the first
thing I thought about when I saw this thread.
The marriage lasted two years.
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Re: wearing black
By: Hmmm Date: October 21, 2020, 8:20 am
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[quote author=Sara Crewe link=topic=1887.msg59232#msg59232
date=1603260519]
Raquel Welch wore low cut black with shoulder straps to her
son’s afternoon English church wedding to the daughter of a
famous cricketer.
Everyone else in the pictures is wearing typical British wedding
clothes with shoulders covered for church, she’s dressed for a
Hollywood party. There were *multiple* articles in the press
about how inappropriately she was dressed and it was the first
thing I thought about when I saw this thread.
The marriage lasted two years.
[/quote]
I had never heard about this so did a search and found this
recent article. The bride sounds so very gracious.
HTML https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1329039/Raquel-welch-dress-wedding-rebecca-ferrene-trueman
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