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It absolutely is wrong and considered bad luck to wear black to a wedding. Bad luck for a baby's Christening or Baptism too.
Black always has been and always will be the traditional colour of funerals, mourning, court houses of law, criminal sentencing, executions and other non-joyous formal events. It is a totally inappropriate colour for a wedding which is supposed to be a joyous formal event. Next on the list of what colour not to wear at a wedding is white, but any other colours are acceptable, usually in pastels and soft muted shades, nothing too striking so as to not detract from the bride's gown. Blue is a favourite good colour to wear for weddings because symbolically it represents sincerity, love, truth and good wishes.
If you wear black to a wedding you are insulting the bride and some other guests at the wedding will be superstitious enough to say you are wishing bad luck on the bride and groom's marriage and they will get snarky with you and be gossiping about you behind your back about the ignorant thing you did wearing black and they'll be crossing their fingers against you. Some superstitions or ancient symbolisms never die and they are there for a good reason. Go with honourable tradition. Anyone who tells you to "wear what you want and nobody else cares" is somebody who thinks they can speak for everyone else but is really only speaking for themselves out of ignorance, lack of class and lack of consideration for time honoured old traditions.
Since it's a beach wedding, many outfits would be just fine. A blouse and skirt, a sundress, even beachy pants and a flowy
floral top. Is this black dress the only thing you own that's lightweight and summery? Personally, I'm not superstitious and I wouldn't care less what a guest wore to my wedding, unless it was something obscene, or just looked like something dirty, wrinkled, or totally weird like trying to draw attention to themselves. Otherwise, only a busybody would care/ bother someone about the color of their outfit.
Personally, I'd just spend $10 at goodwill, $15 at Wal-Mart or $30 at Ross and get a pastel or floral sundress. Some things aren't worth worrying too much about.
I wore black (with a periwinkle sweater) to my brother’s day wedding and nobody noticed nor cared nor asked me why I wore it. Some of these reactions are really extreme. Many people consider it normal to wear black to a wedding nowadays.
Unless the bride actually said something, it is no big deal. With the crazy things people wear anywhere now, it is interesting that something as simple as a black dress should be in question.
My friend is having a destination wedding in a few months that we can’t really afford to go to but we are going. It’s a 5 pm wedding on a beach and reception on a patio. I have a nice black off the shoulder sun dress I was going to wear my friends tells me I can’t wear black. Is it really that wrong to wear black? My other friend showed me her dress which is similar but in blue.
Why are you asking these people on here? You're only going to get 2 answers...it's ok, or it's not ok.
Ask the bride, that's the only person who will answer what you need to know.
SS
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