Huge star admits to breaking ‘common sense’ wedding rule
A huge US star has just realised she made a massive fashion faux pas at her best friend’s wedding 30 years ago.
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Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel has confessed to accidentally breaking a major wedding fashion rule.
In a candid Instagram reel, the former reality TV regular recently admitted to wearing white to her best friend’s wedding three decades ago.
Frankel, 54, said her memory was jogged by recent discussions about Kylie Jenner, who wore an “icy blue” dress that appeared white in certain lights at Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos’ wedding.
Frankel explained she had no idea about the etiquette rule back then, as she was scrambling to find an outfit after her luggage was lost while overseas.
Star admits to breaking wedding rule
“I never knew that rule. Yes, in the past decade or so, I’ve heard it. Today, because I was thinking of Kylie Jenner wearing white to the wedding, which wasn’t really white, I was thinking – ‘Oh my God’,” she said.
“And then I remembered, I was at her wedding in Marbella, with my ex, and we lost our luggage, and Marbella was not the metropolis it is today, and we were scrambling to find an outfit for the next day, and nothing was open and they had this tiny Gucci store. I owned exactly zero Gucci clothes, but we went in there, and it was like 80, 90 per cent off.
“I remember that like it was yesterday, and I bought this long, white gown that has a cut out and it has like underwear, it was Tom Ford for Gucci … and I still have it, and I keep nothing. That dress was so spectacular that I kept it.”
She then shared a photo from the day, showing her beside the bride in a dress that looked even lighter than the bride’s.
“Hers was like egg shell, off white, mine was Casper The Friendly Ghost white,” she joked. “WHOOPSIE.”
Friend and fans forgive fashion mishap
Fortunately, her friend, Sarah Beriro Lacharlotte, was forgiving of the fashion slip-up and even defended her in the comments online.
“As the bride, I must add that Bethenny’s luggage never arrived, so she had to hunt for a black tie outfit the day of the wedding (in Marbella, no less, which had very few fashion stores at the time),” she wrote.
“Needless to say, in true B ‘fashion’ she managed to find the most iconic dress and made quite an impression on many men that evening … I was just happy she didn’t show up naked!!! :-))”
Fans also chimed in on the fashion “crime,” saying they wouldn’t care either.
“Yeah but it was the 1996 Gucci Tom Ford. I would have been okay if you wore that to my wedding,” said one.
“Look how much your BFF did NOT care either. Everyone looks so happy!” someone else pointed out.
A third added: “S**t happens. it actually just looks like a beautiful sleek white dress, doesn’t look like your competing with the bride. Sounds like a special friend too that she didn’t care”.
Others pointed out that it wasn’t always the “sin” it’s considered today, and “entitled/precious/easily offended” brides nowadays are to blame for the rise in this wedding rule.
Some commenters critiqued the star
However, some weren’t as sympathetic, saying she should have known it was still not okay.
“Honest with you, everybody knows that you don’t wear white to a wedding because then you’re upstaging the bride and the bride is the only one who was supposed to wear white. I don’t understand how you did not know that, I knew that from when I was a kid,” replied one user.
“My brother-in-law’s girlfriend wore white to my wedding 38 years ago, it was definitely not okay,” said another.
The origins of wearing white
The tradition of avoiding white at a wedding as a guest is a relatively modern etiquette rule, but its origins are closely linked to the history of the white wedding dress itself.
For centuries, brides simply wore their “best dress” regardless of colour, until the mid 19th century, when Queen Victoria set a new trend by wearing a white gown for her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.
It quickly became the standard among brides, with white symbolising purity, innocence, and the start of a new chapter.
As the white dress became synonymous with the bride, it evolved into an unwritten rule that only the bride should wear white on her wedding day, to ensure she was the centre of attention and to avoid any confusion about who the bride was among guests.
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