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but the rest of the dresses look ok. So i guess if your dress is too blingy- reconsider, if it is semi formal, then consider. :)
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I've worn red to weddings before but usually its been a simpler outfit or I've dressed it down with minimal jewelry and simpler hair.
However, as of last year I stopped.
I wore an outfit to a wedding that was coincidentally designed by the same designer as hers. Yeeah. Her's was a much more heavy version of mine. I walked in and wanted to RUN out...felt like I committed a crime against humanity.
Don't do it.
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i dont see any harm n it, there were couple ppl at my wedding who wore their wedding lenghas, it did not bother me. i agree with sehrish, chill out ppl.
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Listen, a bride will always be the center of attention no matter what anyone else wears. My cousins have all worn their beautiful wedding dresses at recent shaadi's in my family and nobody complained or felt weird because the bride is always going to look different and will stand out.
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...especially if the bride might be wearing red? I normally stay away from this colour, but someone from Pakistan bought me a BEAUTIFUL red outfit with work all over, and I just don't know whether I can get away with it. It's too heavy to wear anywhere except a wedding, but it's also a little bit bridal-ish because it's red and gold.
What do you girls say? I have a close friend's wedding this weekend and I've love to wear it....but it's red :(
(I'll post a pic of the outfit in a minute!)
Did you talk to any dyer if they can bleach and dye the dress in some other color without effecting the work?
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and my eyes went straight to the bride in each pic. 
I won’t wear red to a wedding but I will wear a really really really heavy lengha and my jewelry. :halo: I wish wish wish I was kidding (sadly), but I did that at my devar’s wedding. I REALLY didn’t intend to outshine the bride because her outfit was light but delicate and she looked gorgeous (and I’m positive I didn’t because I looked utterly retarded) but I decided to wear my wedding stuff because:
- everyone around me said that this was the best time for me to re-wear my outfit.
- she said it was ok (because the very same debate was going on here then too
) - all my jahez stuff sucked cz it was all light/semi formal wear (I didn’t get to choose anything myself)
- back then I was really into being blinged out.
Since then, I think that’s contributed to my phobia of being overdressed but then I end up feeling horribly underdressed at most events 
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can I ask in a kind of related way, do girls still do that things where if you are unmarried you generally tend to dress down and once you are married you are all blinged out and stuff?
I think I did the reverse--before I got married I was really into dressing up and wearing heavy outfits, but since the last few years (shortly after I got married), I've become very low key and kinda simple.
that's all it takes to look married? well then.
and a few babies in the hand. and pregnant belly too. :)
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first of all, it's impossible for anyone to outshine the bride, honestly. the bride is always the centre of attention no matter what her outfit or makeup looks like.
i think wearing red is okay as long as its not a bridal or heavy outfit. otherwise it just looks like you're trying to compete or worse, people start mistaking you as being part of the bridal party.. can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to wear a more heavy outfit (that too, in red) compared to the bride's sisters/friends? lol. also i think it depends on your age group. aunties shouldn't wear red to weddings.. i have seen aunties come to weddings in heavy red outfits while their daughters were wearing lightly-worked outfits.. it just looks plain weird and wannabe-ish.
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I have seen a lot of women wear their own wedding outfits to close family weddings and I've never found anything wrong with it.
Its also tradition in some families to wear your bridal outfits like that.
The only time it gets out of control is when you wear the dupatta on your head...yes its happened.
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I dont think there is anything wrong in it , as long as their red doesnt have more kaam than the bride :P
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My 2 sister in law's both wore their red wedding outfits on my wedding...umm yea i wasn't too happy :S
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This thread makes me want to ask all the lovely ladies close to me to wear red on my wedding day, while I’ll also be wearing red 
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Lets see who creates the drama, THAN!
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I personally wouldn't wear red, or any other colour the bride is wearing, on her wedding day. If the bride isn't wearing red and she says ok then yeah I would (like for my cousin's wedding) but if she wearing red I wouldn't even ask but that's just my opinion.
I didn't wear it in the end, my friend told me not to. Phew, decision made for me!
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ah thats good?
Well maybe you could wear it in a non-wedding event
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Here's a suggestion Mad Hatter. Since your dress is a front open shirt, I suggest you get a pale contrast colored shirt to go underneath it. You could use a pale gold-ish/off-white/beige color...If you want you can also change the dupatta to a plain one in either matching or the contrast color. That will redduce the heaviness to some extent and throw off the red color. Hope that helps :)