SHE thought she’d picked a cute outfit to wear to a friend’s wedding.
But when she arrived, Bez realised her boyfriend had forgotten to tell her a key detail on the invite.
Namely that guests at the nuptials were required to wear black tie.
She took to TikTok to share her epic fail, as she admitted she “looked like a toddler” compared to everyone else at the occasion.
And she was so embarrassed by the mistake that she ended up “hiding out in the staff hallway” because she’d been “having kind of a panic attack all night”.
“Because when I walked into this wedding, that is when I found out that it is black tie,” she sighed.
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“And literally every woman at this wedding is wearing a floor length black gown.
“Not only is it black tie, but it’s, you’re supposed to wear all black!”
When she’d asked her boyfriend what she should wear to the wedding, he’d replied: “Whatever, just something nice.”
She then showed off the outfit in question, a colourful patterned skater skirt and matching cape, worn over a vest top and teamed with white Dr. Martens boots and high socks.
Explaining that she had to go with flats due to a calf injury, she wailed: “Every single person in this wedding, long black dress.
“This is what I’m wearing. Do you see this?
“I look like a kindergartner on her first day of school.
“I look like some kind of cartoon character that got brought to life. I do not look like I’m going to, are you?”
Bez added that she had decided to hide because she didn’t want to “ruin all the wedding pictures”.
“I would not do this on purpose,” she concluded.
“Cannot believe I didn’t know it was black tie!”
“I dressed like a toddler to a black tie wedding I went to,” she captioned the video.
Dos and don’ts of wedding dress codes
By Josie Griffiths, Fabulous deputy editor and bride-to-be.
Josie Griffiths said: I’ll never forget the wedding I went to in October 2022 where a guest wore a white dress.
It was ill-fitting, knee length and looked nothing like an actual wedding dress, but that didn’t stop everyone judging her.
The rules on wedding guest outfits – which are annoyingly loads stricter for women than they are for men – are meant to be about “not upstaging the bride”, which in reality is quite hard to do on someone else’s wedding day.
But if you get it wrong as a guest, you do end up looking a bit silly, and in front of loads of people who don’t know you personally.
It’s just not the occasion for your new white dress, as much as online stores love dumping them in the ‘wedding guest’ section.
I’d avoid anything too tight/short, and ditch super formal gowns unless the dress code calls for them – you don’t want to be in a full length sequin gown at a smart casual event.
Personally I don’t like black dresses either, it isn’t a funeral.
Otherwise you should be pretty safe. Technically wearing red means you’re in love with the groom, but that’s the kind of rule most people would scoff at nowadays.
I do always check what colour the bridesmaids are in, just to be safe, after the Spanish wedding where I watched them walk down the aisle in the exact same dress I’d had in my Asos shopping basket just weeks earlier.
If in doubt, safest to just double check with the bride… but if you’re already doubting your dress that might be all the answer you need.
And the majority of people commenting on the video insisted they’d “leave” if they’d made the same mistake.
“I would leave,” one wrote.
“He did NOT look out for you. I’d be so upset!”
“I would legit leave, change, and come back,” another added.
“Please tell us you left?” a third questioned.
“Honestly this would be a deal breaker situation for me if my boyfriend couldn’t even handle looking into a dress code prior to an event,” someone else admitted.
While others said Bez’s outfit wasn’t suitable for a wedding regardless of the dress code.
“I gasped at the boots. what were you thinking? It’s a WEDDING!” one yelled.
“I don’t know a wedding where this outfit would work for anyway,” another agreed.
“Are you going roller skating – have you been to a wedding?” a third marvelled.
As someone else said Bez’s outfit would “would work great for a JoJo Siwa concert”.
