Did I upstage the bride at my childhood friend's wedding?
My friends wedding was a little over a week ago. The event took place in the evening and was extremely formal, just about all the women attending wore floor length gowns and men wore tuxes.
I've known the groom for seventeen years, he's 5 years older than I am. I've never in my life been attracted to him. That being said although I'm only 21, I'm engaged to my fiance - I've been with him for the past 6.5 years -- we're getting married after I finish graduate school.
The only reason I feel the need to mention this is because some of my friends thought maybe the bride accused me of trying to upstage her because she thought I wanted to impress the groom, although my friends, my boyfriend, the groom himself, and I know that would never be the case.
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^ Is the dress I wore, the only differences are it was in a deep cranberry red color and the sleeves were full. I left my long black hair down and curled it -- the curls reached my lower back. I kept my makeup simple.
The bride wore a beautiful cream colored mermaid wedding dress and her blonde/light brown hair was in some type of elegant bun. Both her hair and makeup were professionally done.
Was my dress too much? I thought maybe she thought it was a bit too risque, but once I arrived I realized many women were wearing similar dresses in terms of how revealing they were.
Sorry there's a bit more. Anyway, I tried confronting her and asking her why she's accusing me of upstaging her. She didn't give me a real answer. No one mistook me for the bride. I didn't act out or misbehave. I did receive a lot of compliments, but so did a lot of other girls and the bride received many compliments as well. I'm not too bent out of shape about this, but now I'm curious, to outsiders, does it seem like I tried to upstage her?
a mutual friend of the bride just told me it was because the groom gave my fiancee a lecture about how he's lucky to be engaged to me etc. I shouldn't have confronted her about it, but I'm not one to let people make accusations/talk smack about me. I sound like a brat, but after figuring out the reason, I don't feel bad at all anymore and I think she's acting like an overgrown child. Being a bride doesn't give her the right to act like a jealous twit over something so trivial.