Bad Manners and Brimstone

Quote from: Hmmm on October 21, 2020, 08:20:19 am

Quote from: Sara Crewe on October 21, 2020, 01:08:39 am

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.

I had never heard about this so did a search and found this recent article. The bride sounds so very gracious.

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1329039/Raquel-welch-dress-wedding-rebecca-ferrene-trueman

Interesting story.  Sounds like the cleavage (although she evidently put on a jacket for the church) and tightness of the dress were more of an issue than black; with a shape like hers, you might not even notice the color!    But besides being inappropriate for a daytime church wedding, there is another issue: attention-seeking.  As being a celebrity already inherently entails a risk of drawing focus from the bridal couple, something less flashy would have been a better choice.  I too think the bride was very classy in her reaction, and I agree that it isn’t a big deal anyway.

Quote from: Hmmm on October 21, 2020, 08:20:19 am

Quote from: Sara Crewe on October 21, 2020, 01:08:39 am

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.

I had never heard about this so did a search and found this recent article. The bride sounds so very gracious.

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1329039/Raquel-welch-dress-wedding-rebecca-ferrene-trueman

Interesting story.  Sounds like the cleavage (although she evidently put on a jacket for the church) and tightness of the dress were more of an issue than black; with a shape like hers, you might not even notice the color!    But besides being inappropriate for a daytime church wedding, there is another issue: attention-seeking.  As being a celebrity already inherently entails a risk of drawing focus from the bridal couple, something less flashy would have been a better choice.  I too think the bride was very classy in her reaction, and I agree that it isn’t a big deal anyway.

Quote from: TootsNYC on October 21, 2020, 12:58:36 pm

Quote from: Aleko on October 20, 2020, 09:53:57 am

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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?

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.

This has been true of every wedding I've ever been to in the U.S.

The second bolded is true in my experience, too.  But then, the weddings I've attended don't have a gap between the ceremony and the reception, with one pretty early in the daytime and one in the evening, as in the first bolded.  Is that gap common in your experience (Iowa, NYC, or elsewhere)?