'Anyone wearing white will run the risk of retribution by the groomsmen with squirt guns': 20+ Hilarious Stories of What Happened to Wedding Guests Who Wore White

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Isabella Penn
Jun 20, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

We all know you're not supposed to wear white to a wedding. It's traditional for the bride to be head-to-toe in white, so any guest who shows up wearing a shade of white could be perceived as trying to steal the attention away from the bride. Even if you do it without intent, it still doesn't look good. In this day and age, you should definitely know not to wear white to a wedding. There are very few rules for a wedding guest, but that is definitely number one. But also, some guests wear white with the intention of upstaging the bride. Whether it's the mother, an in-law, a jealous best friend, you name it. The people below have had to deal with maliciously intended guests. But don't worry, they took care of them. How might you ask? Keep scrolling for some of the most hilarious ways these people have seen guests wearing white be handled at a wedding. 

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    C r/weddingshaming • 2 days Watchfulstorm45 Has anyone ever spilled red wine on someone who purposely wore white to someone else's wedding.. If so, what happened, and were there any repercussions.. Would love to hear some stories!
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    RIPCarlGrimes • 1d ago Not the same but I was at a wedding where kids were given a ton of chocolates and told to go hug grandma who wore a wedding gown to her own daughter's wedding. She had lovely smears everywhere and no hope of changing outfits.
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    kteeeee • 1d ago Someone spilled an entire glass of red wine on me, shoulder to toes, when I wore white to a wedding. Unfortunately, I was the bride.
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    Sixin2082 • 1d ago My MIL informed us that she would be wearing a 'mother of the bride' dress which was a wedding dress. We didn't feel like dealing with her, so we just let her know that she wouldn't be allowed in the venue. Apparently she believed us, because she came in a dress that met the dress code. That was probably a better outcome than having had wine spilled on her.
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    YourMoonWife 23h ago Yep! My friends little sister changed last second into a white gown and said she "ripped" her maid of honour gown, so oh silly me I was so so hungry and terrible in heels and the plate of sweet and sour pork I was eating before the ceremony just happened to spill on her when I tripped. Double surprise, the maid of honour dress only had a small rip up the side. So she wore it with staples holding it together from the inside.
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    somethingclever1712 • 1d ago I've known one person who did it on behalf of the bride when she was a bridesmaid. Bride was very upset because the offender wouldn't leave and change. So bridesmaid waited until the offender was near the bar, got the red wine, turned around and oops! It was definitely the nuclear option.
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    Cheaperthantherapy13 22h ago The closest I've ever seen was a +1 showing up to a Hispanic wedding in a floor-length, white satin gown. Extremely bridal. Before the ceremony, every single cousin and sibling of the bride made sure to walk by and say something to the girl; once we got to the receptions her and her date were dramatically moved from a central table to the back corner, against the wall and as far away from the dance floor as possible. No wine was spilled, but the message was received
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    embarrassed wreck, hunched in the shadows wrapped in her date's jacket. They left as soon as dinner was over because there was no way the bride's family was going to let her near the dance floor and the wedding photographer. However, the +1 in white wasn't the most embarrassing wedding guest at that wedding. That award goes to the +1 who decided to smuggle a 6pack of Budlight in glass bottles. into the ceremony, then accidentally kicked
    via u/Cheaperthantherapy13
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    over one of her empties during a prayer. Listening to that glass bottle hit the floor and slowly roll all the way down the stone floor to the front of the chapel was one of the most agonizing things I've ever heard. That group of the groom's friends ended up getting kicked out of the reception before they even started serving dinner.
    via u/Cheaperthantherapy13
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    WorldWeary1771 • 1d ago Well, we know that wearing white inappropriately happens as there's plenty of evidence here. But I've never heard a story that I actually believed about someone on the wedding party deliberately spilling anything on them. That's technically assault. I would expect a more natural reaction would be people talking smack behind the offender's back all night, or maybe a drunken confrontation where someone tells the offender exactly what they think about this stunt. Most people
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    PrincessPindy . 1d ago My friend that I met when she was 3 and I was 5 wore pure white to my wedding. I was thrilled she drove the 3 hours to be there. She looked beautiful. That was 40 years ago and she has been my friend for 60 years. But I guess it would depend on who it was and their intention.
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    cheeky_sailor 1d ago. As a bride I would be way more offended if someone decided to start a petty drama by spilling wine on my guests than by a guest wearing a white dress to my wedding.
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    • bubblechog ⚫ 18h ago Not a white dress - a red one. Chinese wedding so bride (me) was in Red and Gold. Girlfriend of one of our guests showed up in a red dress. I have no idea if it was on purpose but a drink did get knocked over on her and she ended up wearing her boyfriends jacket and leaving before the after party to get changed
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    • SMH2180 20h ago to me. I was a waitress when I was in my early 20's. I was working a wedding at my restaurant when a woman whom I knew from high school showed up at the wedding wearing white. I overheard the bridesmaids talking about what to do but laughed and didn't think much of it and kept on working. But the guest recognized me and started being incredibly Ordering me around and just being a horrible human. I spilled her prime rib au jous on her "accidentally" while serving her....twice. S
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    Birdy304 • 1d ago Seems to me that making a big deal out of someone's dress, spilling wine and causing a scene, would draw attention to it more than if you just acted like a normal human being and enjoyed your wedding day. Weddings are so out of control, a white dress makes everyone think a guest is the bride? I've also seen all the posts about if someone has tattoos, wild hair, a wheelchair they may take attention away. from the bride! Oh no! These people are ridiculous!!
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    • cryssylee90 18h ago Not white fully but my mother before I went fully NC wore jeans and a white floral shirt to my wedding and her BF was in ratty stained jeans and a shirt and a torn up hat. Now it wasn't a fancy, expensive wedding but we also weren't getting hitched at the courthouse. I didn't expect a dress because I know she despises all manner of dresses and skirts but she owns slacks because she'd worn them to plenty of other events. She made sure to position herself into every single im
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    my wedding photos. Recently I paid someone to clean up the photos (my original photographer had to back out the day before. because she unfortunately lost her dad and the only person I found to replace her SEEMED to have a good portfolio but the photos were awful quality, even for only $700. The cell phone and digital camera pics others took were better quality than those) and photoshop my mother and her BF out of all of them except the two I asked her specifically to be in (he wasn't invited so
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    Apparently she got wind of it recently and had a whole fit about it to the family according to a cousin I still speak too. If that's her reaction to this, I can only imagine what will happen when she learns about our vow renewal in 2 years (preferably after the fact because she's not welcome). Not my problem though, I don't speak to her anymore - in large part because of my wedding weekend ironically. And the above had nothing to do with that lol.
    via u/cryssylee90
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    unreedemed1 • 20h ago Someone actually came to my wedding in white, and I didn't notice until I got the pictures back. It wasn't a member of my family, it was a family friend's new fiancée. I don't think I saw her all day, so imagine my surprise when I was looking at the pics! Anyway I did not care or notice on the day of but I did schedule a business trip over their wedding. Clearly they did not respect mine so why should I travel to go to theirs?
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    mmebookworm • 1d ago I wore white to a wedding 15 years ago - I was pregnant and wore a white embroidered crisp cotton blouse with a beige embroidered handkerchief skirt (that I made). No one cared, least of all the bride. There was no intention to 'upstage the bride', and I definitely didn't look bridal. It just happened to be what I had at the time.
    via u/mmebookworm
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    Quokka_Queen • 12h ago My friend, Jill, had an Aunt Lori that was an attention-seeking harpy. She had worn "ivory" to previous family weddings and Jill was determined that it not happen at hers. Knowing that Lori's behavior was a family joke, Jill actually printed on the invitations: anyone wearing white, ivory, cream, or any other shade of white will run the risk of retribution by the Groomsmen With Squirt Guns Guards." On the day of the wedding, the groomsmen stayed out in front and made a sal
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    super-soakers, like military weddings have the guard of honor with their swords raised. Aunt Lori showed up in an ivory dress. The groomsmen then fired a warning shot over her bows (they shot a stream about six feet in front of Lori). She stopped and tried to walk around them and then they fired a stream about three fine in front of her. Aunt Lori turned right around and left. She never came back to the wedding or the reception but apparently she's never worn white to a family wedding since then
    via u/Quokka_Queen
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    TheLadyRica . 16h ago The bride chose bridesmaids dresses that we really could wear again - soft, cream sundresses. Getting hugs from her children before the ceremony, her four year old splashed grape Kool-Aid all over my dress. It looked Fantastic! The other maids all tried to find something to color up their dresses but my purple splash was the prettiest by far!
    via u/TheLadyRica

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