A lady was left mortified after she by chance wore the identical dress to a marriage because the bridesmaids – revealing the bride was lower than impressed.
Taylor Fogarty, from Florida, bought a floor-length pastel blue dress to attend a friend’s nuptials, but when the bridesmaids began walking down the aisle she realized she’d made an enormous mistake.
While there aren’t any hard-and-fast rules about guest attire, it is mostly frowned upon to commit several fashion acts, including wearing white because it is deemed an try and “upstage the bride” and wearing the identical color because the bridal party.
In Fogarty’s case, she was not only dressed to match the marriage’s color palette, she was also in the very same dress because the bridesmaids.
The 28-year-old was left “dying inside” for the whole event after the unlucky mishap, stating she felt awful for committing a marriage faux pas.
“I immediately began going vibrant red and my stomach was in knots. I just got so uncomfortable I wanted to go away, I fully couldn’t enjoy myself,” Fogarty told Kennedy News.
“I didn’t discuss with the bridesmaids, I approached the bride on the reception and apologized. I used to be so embarrassed I felt like I needed to say something.”
She said that the bride, who she had met prior to the event but wasn’t near, insisted she didn’t mind – but Fogarty said she could tell the girl felt “some form of way about it.”
Fogarty said she brought it up with everyone at the marriage because she was “so embarrassed.”
“An older man said something about it once I was getting food on the buffet. I just walked away dying inside,” she said.
“It makes me cringe.”
Some social media users said that they had an analogous experience to Fogarty but others felt as if she must have known higher.
“It happened to me last summer. Couples actually need to place what colours they don’t want people wearing on the invite,” one social media user said.
One other added: “I’d have gone home. For real.”
“Yup I did that too. A hunter green silk dress … I used to be so embarrassed. A few of the people kept asking why I wasn’t sitting with the marriage party,” one other said.
One added: “You went dressed as a bridesmaid, soooo.”
“A woman I didn’t take care of wore the identical dress as my bridesmaids, just in a unique color. I used to be salty but I got over it,” one added.
One social media user said: “Girl… what were you considering.”
Fogarty said the entire event was a lesson learnt and any further she would ask what bridesmaids were wearing at future weddings she attends.
