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‘You let her leave the house like that?’ people gasp as woman’s mum is asked to leave wedding all because of her outfit
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A WOMAN has left people totally stunned after she was asked to leave a wedding all because of her outfit.
Caroline Ricke explained that the maid of honour requested that her mother go home and change her outfit, after she turned up in white for the big day.
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The content creator claimed that she warned her mum that the outfit could spark concern, but Caroline’s mother was in shock at the ordeal and described it as “ridiculous.”
Posting on social media, Caroline was in fits of laughter, as she said: “My mum and I just left a wedding ceremony and the maid of honour asked her to go home and change before she comes to the reception.”
Caroline then showed off her mum’s wedding guest dress, a floor-length, off-the-shoulder, white frilly dress.
Shocked at the situation, Caroline’s mother, who styled the frock with sunglasses and a chunky necklace, then replied: “I bought this beautiful dress to go to this wedding and now they’re asking me to go back and change?
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“I’m sorry, I’m not going back.”
To this, Caroline explained: “You look good but it’s literally a wedding dress, I told you they were going to say something.”
But clearly not impressed, her mother snapped: “Well, in my country you are allowed to wear white for weddings.”
Despite the dress saga, Caroline later confirmed that her mother “ended up going back” to the wedding later that day.
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The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly gone viral and has since racked up 1.1 million views.
But social media users were stunned at the woman’s wedding-dress style gown, and many were shocked that Caroline let her mother wear the dress in the first place.
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One person said: “You let her leave the house like that?!”
Another added: “Why didn’t you tell her?!”
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A third commented: “You should’ve refused to let her out of the house in that.”
Meanwhile, someone else penned: “This is insane.”
Why you should never wear white to a wedding
JOSIE Griffiths, Deputy Editor at Fabulous, who is tying the knot this year, has shared her thoughts on wearing white to a wedding...
I tend to consider myself pretty low maintenance from a fashion and beauty point of view.
I can be out the door in 20 minutes in the morning, normally do my mascara on the bus or the Tube, and spend my work from home days in my gym gear.
But when it comes to my wedding this summer, that’s all gone out the window.
Professional hair and makeup is booked for 8am, I’ve gone all out on my wedding dress, got designer shoes and even bought a second dress for the evening do.
So when I think about someone wearing a white gown to my big day, yeah I think I’d be pretty mad.
The idea behind not wearing a white dress goes back to not wanting to ‘upstage the bride’.
Which, to be fair, is unlikely. Not only has she possibly spent a small fortune on her look for the day, she’s also one of the only two people present who knows (and hopefully likes) all the guests.
So the main risk you’re taking is just making yourself look quite silly - and getting gossiped about by total strangers.
A wedding guest I met in October 2022 still sticks out in my mind. I still don’t know what was worse - the fact she was so drunk she was crashing into people on the dance floor, or her decision to wear a white dress, which was arguably marginally improved by the glass of red wine she’d drunkenly tipped down herself.
I know weddings are expensive for everyone and it’s fair enough if you don’t want to buy a whole new outfit - I’m all for re-using what’s already in your wardrobe.
Just avoid the white dress for the bride’s sake - and your own.
At the same time, one user wrote: “Better asking her to change than spilling red wine on her.”
Whilst another chimed in: “She’s lucky they’re letting her come back.
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