'You're not first prize': Bride yelled at me at her wedding for wearing 'gold'

"1. That dress is orange. 2. Even if it was gold, is that now a taboo colour for weddings? I can’t keep up anymore," someone wrote on the post.

In a recent post to an online forum, a woman asked if she was in the wrong for wearing a 'gold' dress to her best friend's wedding. 

After the bride confronted her during her big day, she was left wondering if she had made the wrong choice (and if the dress was even gold in the first place!)

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"F**king trashy"

The OP, a 30-year-old woman, began her post by explaining that her best friend, Dan, who is also 30, and his new wife, Lauren, 27, were getting married. 

Despite their platonic friendship, dating back to high school, Lauren has always kept her at arm's length, as she had her suspicions. 

"In their three years of dating, I have not been allowed to see Dan alone because she feels that it's suspicious that I want to hang out with him. Honestly, I just missed my friend," she explained.

"Despite me being happily married, she's always kept me at arm's length. I always figured this was because she's from a very conservative family. Dan has spoken to her multiple times, and after, she'll back off for a bit before reverting to complaining about him being friends with a girl again. It's not ideal, but she makes Dan happy, so I made my peace with it."

This tension culminated in a dramatic scene at Dan and Lauren's wedding recently, where the OP's outfit led to her being called "f**king trashy" by the bride.

"I was going to be in the groom's party, but Lauren ended up crying, saying a wedding is not a place to swap gender roles. Dan was fighting her on this, but I told him I'd just attend as a guest and not choose this hill to die on," she explained.

The dress code was 'warm tone garden party' and guests were encouraged to wear earthy warm colours.

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"I picked out a bronze/orange dress that I thought fit this perfectly, and the style even matched some of the examples they gave. In short, I thought I had nailed it," she said, attaching the photos of the dress (above). 

The wedding went great, however, Lauren dragged her aside at the reception and said, "I cannot believe you would wear gold to my wedding; you're not the first prize. You're just f**king trashy."

Yikes!

"I was so shocked in the moment I just stared at her. She practically screamed at me to leave, and she was drawing attention, so I grabbed my husband, said goodbye to Dan and left," she recalled.

"Dan reached out afterward and told me he was upset I had left his wedding so soon. Lauren's mum has texted me saying I ruined the wedding for her daughter and I'm stupid for wearing a gold dress; she's saying it's as bad as wearing white. I was genuinely not aware this was a thing. I want to reach out to Dan to explain but I don't know if I'm in the wrong here."

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"That dress is orange"

In the comments, people reassured the OP she didn't do anything wrong and even suggested that the altercation had nothing to do with the colour of the dress. 

"I don't think it would have mattered what colour your dress was. The (now) wife hates you and was gonna find something to yell at you for whatever you wore. It would have been something else if it weren't the dress colour. Tell your friend why you left early, and make sure he knows how his wife treats you. NTA," the top comment read.

"If they thought that was gold, then they need to go back to primary school and relearn their colours," another pointed out.

They added: "And you need to be honest with Dan. Tell him that you would have loved to stay longer, but you weren’t going to be yelled at and accused of trying to upstage his new wife and make more of a scene and that until he can verify that you won’t be attacked for breathing in his presence, you are going to step back. You’ll always be a call or text away, but you aren’t going to place yourself on the line of fire."

A third agreed, stating: "1. That dress is orange. 2. Even if it was gold, is that now a taboo colour for weddings? I can’t keep up anymore."

"You wore an orange dress to their wedding. It was perfectly within the dress code. I didn’t even know deciding which colours guests should wear to the wedding was normal. Thought that was for bridesmaids… but sure," someone else concluded. 

What do you think of the situation? Was she in the wrong here?

Originally published as 'You're not first prize': Bride yelled at me at her wedding for wearing 'gold'