Women who want to re-wear their existing bridesmaid dresses for an upcoming wedding should not be pressured into buying a new dress for the event, a Reddit user has decided.
“Who didn't buy bridesmaid dresses for their friend's wedding, AITA?” In a Friday, January 12, 2024 post on the Reddit subreddit “Am I the A–hole,” Reddit user ” Bright_Ad_2563″ was asked.
In the post, the author said she was a 25-year-old woman who had recently been asked to be a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding.
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“Her bridesmaids theme was sunset, so she asked us all to wear yellow, orange, and pink dresses to match the theme,” Bright_Ad_2563 wrote.
She also said that she had been a bridesmaid at her brother's wedding a few years ago and that her sister-in-law had made the bridesmaids wear yellow dresses.
A woman wrote on Reddit that her friend's bride (not pictured) wants her to buy a new dress for her upcoming wedding because people have already “seen” the existing bridesmaid dresses. I wrote. (St. Petersburg)
“It was a beautiful dress and very expensive for me as a college student,” one Reddit poster wrote.
“My brother agreed to pay more than half.” [the cost]That made it quite affordable, but I can only wear the dress on special occasions and I've only worn it once since my wedding,” she added.
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However, when Bright_Ad_2563 told her friend that she already had a wedding dress, her friend disagreed with the idea.
“Does it matter if people see you?”
When the bride asked if she was going to wear the same dress she wore before for the wedding, she said: “Then she told me that she wanted me to buy a new dress for the wedding because I had worn a yellow dress before. And people have seen it.
“This baffled me,” Bright_Ad_2563 wrote. “Does it matter if people see you?”
The woman added that her sister-in-law is a year older than her in school and that they have some mutual friends who will be attending both her brother's wedding and a friend's upcoming wedding. new dress.
Many people who responded to this social media post said they found it odd that people would remember bridesmaid dresses that the bride wore previously. (St. Petersburg)
“Bridesmaid dresses are expensive and you can't wear them after that, so they sit in your closet,” she said.
Bright_Ad_2563 then asked Reddit users to weigh in, worried that he might have violated some sort of wedding etiquette.
Fox News Digital reached out to Bright_Ad_2563 and an etiquette expert for comment.
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According to the website Zola, it is very common today for bridesmaids to wear dresses that don't exactly match the rest of their wedding party dresses.
“Non-matching dresses are one of the best ways for bridesmaids to feel comfortable, because they have more freedom to choose a dress that reflects their style and compliments their figure. '' says the wedding website.
According to wedding website Zola, many brides today are asking their bridesmaids to choose their own favorite dress, rather than one that is exactly the same style or color as another bridesmaid's dress. . (St. Petersburg)
According to the website, many brides choose to have all their bridesmaids wear the same color but different dress styles, or coordinate but not the same color or style.
In the AITAH subreddit, users can reply to posts and post comments such as “NTA” (“not an A–hole”), “YTA” (“you are an A–hole”), “NAH” (” ”). There's no “A-holes Here”) or “ESH” (“Everyone Sucks Here”).
Other users said they wouldn't mind one bit if their bridesmaids re-weared their dresses at the wedding.
Users can “upvote” comments they find helpful and “downvote” comments they find unhelpful.
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Within 12 hours, more than 500 people responded to Bright_Ad_2563's post, and nearly all said she was an “NTA.”
“Why on earth do you think that’s important? [had] Have you worn it before? ” said Reddit user “Llink3483” in the top upvote comment.
Reddit users assured the original poster that they had no problem wearing the bridesmaid dresses she chose again, especially ones from years ago. (St. Petersburg)
Llink3483 continued, “It's not like people are going to look back years from now and think, 'What a beautiful wedding. Too bad the bridesmaids re-dressed.'” [a] This is the dress I wore at a previous wedding. ”
Other Reddit users said they either wouldn't care if their bridesmaids wore their dresses again at the wedding, or that they hoped their bridesmaids would wear their bridesmaid dresses again someday.
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User 'bacucumber' wrote: 'The dresses I chose for my bridesmaids were ones that could be worn over and over again. I hope one of them wears them. I can't wait to see them wear them again. I would be very happy if you could see it,” user “bacucumber” said in part.
One Reddit user even claimed that the bride asked her to wear her bridesmaid dress again.
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“my [sister-in-law] She saw the bridesmaid dress I wore at a friend's wedding and emailed me to say it matched her color (she didn't have it exactly the same, she had different shades of blue and different styles).She said she could wear it again as a bridesmaid because there's no point in it. [in] I’ll buy another similar dress,” the user said, “It’s okay.”
“Everyone was thrilled that I got to wear my bridesmaid dress twice (which doesn't happen often),” said the same user.
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