Everyone Wore White to My Wedding Except…Me
I have an advice column reading addiction. Some days, it seems like much of the advice sought concerns weddings.
Do I have to wear orange taffeta because the bride wants us all to match in the pictures?
Do I have to allow my absentee father to walk me down the aisle because he’s paying?
Can I ban children? Just the children I don’t like? Children sure to throw a tantrum?
As someone who paid five thousand dollars for my own very modest wedding, I was able to avoid many of these dilemmas. Not all, mind you, but some.
While I don’t sympathize too much with brides and grooms who want to direct their nuptials like a movie, I can get on board with one thing. Only the bride should wear white.
With all the talk about narcissists bandied about these days, I have to say my mother was the OG. Over the months of planning, she made so many appeals as to why the wedding should be about her. Her own wedding was on a Wednesday with the only witnesses being my grandparents. I should wear her mini dress because that’s tradition. She should be able to invite her friends to my rehearsal dinner because she didn’t want to be alone in a room of twenty people.
I put my foot down over and over until she declared in the moments I was trying to get my makeup and dress on that I must not love her and she had no purpose in my life. Right after she’d said that with big tears and sobs, she insisted I go to her hotel room and asked me which dress she was ‘allowed’ to wear that day.
On the bed, she’d laid out two dresses. One a long white flowing gown, and the other a blue satin dress. Given the party’s theme: wedding, I chose the blue.
She cried even louder because the blue dress didn’t fit. It squeezed her like a sausage. Despite that, I insisted. No one else asked for sartorial advice, so I went back to my own hotel room to get dressed.
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