can you wear green to a wedding?

[lsharp]

is it ok to wear green to a wedding? i am a guest and have bought a dress top that has green in it?

[joko]

er...why wouldn't it be?

you can wear any colour you like!

(although to wear all white may be considered a bit off as its too near what the bride wear)

[suzy64]

I think the Green dress superstition only applies to the bride
Until the Nineteen Hundreds Brides hardly ever bought a special Wedding Dress, opting for their best outfit instead. Green was always avoided, as it was though to be unlucky. To say a girl 'had a green gown' also implied that she was of loose morals, because her dress would be grass-stained due to rolling around in the fields! Hence 'Marry in Green, ashamed to be seen'. White Dresses were made popular by Queen Victoria, who broke the tradition of royals marrying in Silver. Symbolising purity and virginity, white was also thought to ward off evil spirits. Other traditions are that the bride should never make her own dress, that the final stitch should not be completed until she is departing for the Church and that she should never try on the entire outfit before the day. This was because it was felt dangerous for the Bride to count her chickens. For the same reason, a Bride should never practise signing her new name until it is legally hers, and wedding linen was marked with the Brides maiden rather than married initials. The tradition of Bridesmaids is evolved from the custom of surrounding the Bride with other richly dressed women, in order to confuse evil spirits.

Married in White, you have chosen right
Married in Grey, you will go far away,
Married in Black, you will wish yourself back,
Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead,
Married in Green, ashamed to be seen,
Married in Blue, you will always be true,
Married in Pearl, you will live in a whirl,
Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow,
Married in Brown, you will live in the town,
Married in Pink, you spirit will sink.

[Snowy Owl]

My bridesmaids wore eau-de-nil dresses (a lovely pale pastel green) and when my mother and I went to the florist, who was a friend of my mother-in-law-to-be, she was horrified! She really upset my mother with her comments about how it was bad luck to wear green at a wedding and she thought that the marriage would not last because of it. I only wish that she was still with us to see my husband and I celebrate our ruby wedding later this year.

So, no problem I guess!