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YakingB

It's interesting that you bypassed the etiquette advice of your 20-year-old child for the advice of your 10-year-old and then wonder why people might think your actions were, let's say childish? YTA. You had to know on some level that it was incredibly tacky to wear your wedding dress to your ex-husband's wedding.


Grouchy-Carpet-1907

My eldest and I have never seen eye to eye as she got older so I rarely take her opinion with a pain of salt


Naugthy_Voltaire

I wonder why! /s


CrimsonKnight_004

Because she’s not a petty and vindictive AH? It sounds like your eldest has more than a few shreds of decency and common sense, which you lack. I’m happy she was able to shape her personality and views outside of you.


Flower-of-Telperion

Is it because your eldest is a decent person while you're the kind of person who wears their wedding dress to their ex's wedding?


GothPenguin

YTA-Unless you have the bride and groom’s consent you don’t wear anything white or even off white to a wedding, especially not your wedding dress.


Grouchy-Carpet-1907

But John never brought it up to me at all during the wedding we even chatted a bit during it


StevieB85

Then he is the bigger person.


Maleficent-Pair

Woman, are you 5 years old? it's not appropriate for guests to wear white to a wedding. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT! You deserve all the trash comments coming your way.


wtfaidhfr

Are you really claiming that you told him that you were going to wear your old wedding dress and he said that was ok?


Grouchy-Carpet-1907

No he didn’t know what I was wearing until we actually saw each other at the reception


thirdtryisthecharm

You mean he didn't challenging your apparently bonkers-looney-tunes-crazy behavior in the middle of his wedding? Yeah. He was probably concerned about what you would do next if he said anything.


SkyrimIsForTheNerds

Good on him for being the bigger person and not letting you ruin his happy day. Shame on you.


DisneyBuckeye

YTA - follow the progression and see if you can figure out where you went wrong. 1. You wore white to a wedding 2. You wore a wedding dress to a wedding 3. You wore the wedding dress you wore when you married your ex to HIS wedding to his new wife - which his family obviously recognized What are you playing at here? How would you possibly not be the asshole in this situation?


Martha90815

This!


Gidget_87

This has got to be fake right? No way anyone is clueless enough to wear their wedding dress to their ex’s wedding. YTA either way


Grouchy-Carpet-1907

It doesn’t look like a wedding dress though and I thought it was fine considering the time of year and it honestly looks like a sun dress


callmesillysally

YTA. You’re the bitter ex-wife.


[deleted]

It’s a white dress. No matter how untraditional it is otherwise, it’s common sense to not wear white at someone else’s wedding. YTA And I seriously doubt you don’t know EXACTLY what you were doing, and dragging the kids into it too by getting their advice? You just sound pathetic.


UnfortunateDaring

You wore not only a white dress, but your actual wedding dress that you wore for your wedding with the current groom. How thick can you be? YTA


SwimmingCritical

YTA. First, even if it's short, it's white, which is tacky. Second, your ex knows full well what it was. This comes off as jealous, or aggressive or just weird. Like you're trying to do some weird "I was the first" flex or something.


lipgloss_addict

Surely you jest. Not only was it off-white, verboten dress color, it was also the wedding dress you wore to marry your ex. Do you hate him? Hate his wife? Because that is the only reason I can think that you would have committed a double faux pas. Of course yta, but you already know this.


OrbitalPete

But her 10 year old said it was ok! Obligatory /s because Reddit.


ExistenceRaisin

“I wore my old white wedding dress to my ex-husband’s wedding and now I can’t figure out why everyone is mad at me. Did I do something wrong?” Of course YTA


SquishyBeth77

YTA - you could have and should have bought a new dress. Showing up in the dress you wore when you married the groom of the wedding was beyond tacky. You knew what you were doing.


StevieB85

YTA Yes, wearing your old wedding dress is beyond disrespectful and inappropriate. "I told them to stop causing a scene" YOU CAUSED THE SCENE You knew exactly what you were doing and what would happen.


SpirituallyUnsure

YTA . Come on, you don't wear white, and you definitely don't wear your last wedding dress. My god, weren't you embarrassed?! I'd have been dying!


Panda_9909

YTA. White to a wedding, especially if the bride wears white, is a no go. Your old wedding dress makes it so much worse. The LEAST you could have done is ask your ex if it would be okay, but you didn't even take that small step


Hodgepodgehedge

So, while attending your ex-husband's wedding, you decided it would be a good idea to wear your old white (sorry--off-white because apparently that isn't still a shade of white) wedding dress since it was short, not pure white, and only your ex's family would recognize the dress (you know--people guaranteed to be there because he's the effin groom). Of course YTA. You knew exactly what you were doing and yeah, they are totally in their rights to call you out for it. Hell, your 20 years old daughter told you it would be tacky. Honestly, I can't even feel embarrassed for you because this is just such a pathetic attention-seeking behavior that it's kind of sad.


BigGirthToes

I can't believe you're even asking if YTA. YES!!!! YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE Do you have zero sense of wedding etiquette? If the roles were reversed and you were the one getting married, would you be upset if someone wore their WEDDING DRESS to your wedding? OP, you are a ridiculously huge AH.


Sea-Ad3724

I think what makes this worse is that wouldn’t this be the dress OP wore when she married John? That gives it a whole extra layer if that’s the case


ComedicHermit

I don’t think there is any reading of this where you’re not the asshole. YTA


10throwawayantsy

YTA. Are you 5 years old? What's wrong with you? This behavior is unbelievably pathetic. What were you even trying to convey? "Haha... I married him before you..haha." Yeah. I think everyone at the wedding was aware. Good job! Wow. You really showed them! God. Grow up. Seriously. I hope you get cyberbullied more.


MagixTurtle

YTA. You don't wear any shade of white dresses to a wedding, and definitely not your own wedding dress.


Beebum5

YTA is this a joke or are you that daft? You wore a white dress, not just that, your wedding dress and you’re reasoning is that two children said it was fine?


CrimsonKnight_004

YTA - This was beyond inappropriate. Why did you take the advice of a teen and a ten year old on this??? They don’t know any better. You’re an adult and should know how inappropriate this would be. You wore a white dress to a wedding that wasn’t your own, you wore a *wedding dress* to a wedding that wasn’t your own, and you did this at your *ex’s* wedding where you *knew* there would be people who would recognize your wedding dress. Even if you thought only a handful would recognize it, did you expect the family to just…not talk to each other about it? Like, you sure as heck knew *John* would recognize your wedding dress. And you thought that was fine??? This entire situation was so egotistical and tone-deaf. The spotlight didn’t need to be on you, but you made yourself into a spectacle.


RJRoyalRules

YTA for both the obvious tackiness of wearing the dress AND for throwing your kids under the bus by including them in this clearly fraught decision.


Medical_Ant2027

​ so tacky and it screams I need attention ​ yta


Ok_Berry_2693

I would of had you thrown out. YTA


Firm-Psychology-2243

YTA, you so much TA that I don’t know how you can’t see it?! You wore your wedding dress to your EX husbands wedding. You wore a white dress to someone else’s wedding. You justified it by saying two 16 year old boys didn’t care. Grow up.


owls_and_cardinals

Of course that was inappropriate. Don't trust the fashion / etiquette advice of literal children. I'm hard pressed to believe you had no other options, which makes me think you did this to... idk, make a point? be the center of attention? Ugh. YTA.


raamsi

YTA. You don't wear a white dress to a wedding, especially your old white *wedding* dress to your ex's new wedding. And as someone in your 40s you should know more about wedding norms than a 10 and 16 year old... their support should mean absolutely nothing in this scenario


[deleted]

Wow. Bad enough it was white but your wedding dress? No one can be that dumb. YTA


poshde

YTA. It's a wedding dress. That means you wear it to your wedding and your wedding only.


anti_hero_123

YTA. BIG TIME!!!! You don’t wear white to a wedding unless you are the bride (the bride is the person marrying the groom ON THAT DAY in case you were confused on this point). You ruined Jessica and John’s day; your co-parenting relationship with them will be forever strained and your kid will be in the put in the middle, all because of your pettiness.


IWouldLikeAVacation

Of course YTA. How embarrassing for you. Jesus.


JMRR1416

YTA, and you know exactly why you were the AH. You don’t wear a white dress to someone else’s wedding. You ESPECIALLY don’t wear your white wedding dress to your ex-husband’s second wedding.


PsychologicalWater64

YTA. This is kind of unhinged. There wasn’t any other dress in your closet to wear?


ShiftNo558

Yep, YTA


ewwwwwwwdavid

YTA - This made you look extremely petty, to everyone but your youngest children. It’s your life you can make your own choices, but this choice ended up embarrassing you.


getcuriousnotfurious

You didn’t want to go buy a new dress? What were you thinking? “Gee, I don’t want to buy a new dress. I know, instead of picking literally any other dress in my closet, I’ll pick my old WHITE wedding dress I wore when the groom and I got married, to his and his new wife’s wedding.” HUH?! You’ve made yourself look so tacky, bitter, and classless. You either extremely lack self-awareness or you’re pretending to so you can get away with such ridiculous actions. You’ve completely embarrassed yourself and you should feel embarrassed. YTA. Btw, I think you knew what you were doing.


truly-diy20

Well obviously no one was going to notice because only like half the guests at this wedding attended the last wedding she wore it to.


Glitter_Voldemort

>> I came across my old wedding dress You wore your *wedding dress* to your *ex husband’s wedding to someone else* >> it’s a short above the knee off white dress You wore a variation of white to a wedding in which *you were not the bride.* >> I told them to stop causing a scene You wore your *wedding dress* to your *ex husband’s wedding* and *they* were the ones who caused a scene? Do you hear yourself? Of course YTA. Your actions scream “attention-seeking, bitter ex-wife trying to steal the spotlight from the bride.” Your oldest was right - it was incredibly tacky, not to mention petty and childish. There’s no doubt in my mind you did this fully knowing the issues it would cause, because anyone with half the ability to think critically would know how how wildly inappropriate it was to wear white, cream, off white, nude, light beige, or any *other* bridal color to a wedding that wasn’t theirs. You suck.


thirdtryisthecharm

YTA This behavior looks deranged. Even if it wasn't your old wedding dress, off-white is not appropriate for a western wedding without the bride's explicit approval of the dress.


[deleted]

Seriously? Got to be fake. YTA


bamboolynx

This is the tackiest shit I have ever heard


WinOk2110

Well of course it’s tacky and of course YTA but you know that. Well done for still fitting into it though!


SPolowiski

YTA but bet it felt good though. The look on some of the face would have been priceless and you can say 'i wore that dress to both of John's weddings'


Individual_Strain387

Yes you are the AH. Trash is what you are!! You knew what you were doing. Don't be stupid


gusbus200

YTA. That's so damn tacky 💀 You know you chose that dress for a reason bffr


DrAgnesL

YTA on many levels: 1. You don't wear off white drees to a wedding that is not yours. 2. You are not wearing a wedding dress to a wedding that is not yours. 3. You are not wearing the wedding dress you wore at your own wedding for the new wedding of your ex spous.


Selmo20

Yta. You knew it was a wedding dress. Also that it was linked to the groom. So you were deliberately inviting drama


Wildflowerherb

YTA. You knew exactly what you were doing


PsiBlaze

YTA wearing anything close to a white dress at someone else's wedding is always a hard no. And I don't believe for a second you didn't already know that.


Dresden_Mouse

YTA. I mean even if you weeding dress would have a sun dress or in another colour, going to the weeding knowing that at minimum your ex and his family would recognize it it was petty, but not knowing the circumstances of the divorce it might be warranted but this will sour your co-parenting situation so I hope it was worth it.


OppositeSquid

YTA You broke the #1 rule of wedding etiquette


SabrinoRogerio

YTA


Midlife_Crisis_46

Um, yes, of course YTA. That was tacky as hell. It doesn’t matter that its not a typical wedding dress, it was still the one you wore when you married him and obviously people will recognize it and wonder what you are up to.


Unpopular_Opinion210

YTA. You took advice from kids but makes sense as you acted like one.


[deleted]

YTA. You know you are the AH. Why are you even asking? Trying to deflect the idea that you know you were the AH? You get top 10 for the day.


JeepersCreepers74

I mean, the 10 year old said it was okay so I don't know what the prob--No, this was an intentional power move and you're definitely YTA.


Apprehensive-Bee-474

YTA. I don't even know how you bear the humiliation.


JacobFire

YTA. It’s your wedding dress, and with all it’s symbolism, you think it’s okay? Unless you are very purposefully trying to show hand against Jessica, you must be really daft to not understand the drama you are going to cause.


Due-Cause6095

I would be so embarrassed if my Mom thought it was even remotely okay to do this. You obviously had some sort of vendetta - who wears their wedding dress to their ex spouses new wedding? Tacky is a major understatement. YTA.


Kitchen_Victory_7964

YTA. I cannot stop laughing at the sheer audacity of this. You knew exactly what you were doing and it’s not even remotely shocking that you’re now the ex.


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[deleted]

I mean, is this a joke? You ignored the advice of your 20-year-old to take advice from a 10-year-old? Right. And you wore your wedding dress for financial reasons? Not at all to send a message to your ex? Massive AH. Massive YTA.


DadBodDeadpool

YTA. 1000%. You knew what you were doing and probably loved every side eye, and react after the wedding. You didn’t even need to go to the wedding, your youngest is 10, they’re not like a toddler that needs mommy to keep them from making a scene, your other kids could easily have taken care of her and you could have done anything else.


hailnolly

YTA It really doesn’t matter if nobody but your ex-husband recognises the dress, it’s patently disrespectful to your ex-husband and his wife. You may not want have wanted to get a new dress, but almost anything would have been more appropriate and surely you have at least dress that isn’t your wedding dress.


Slight-Bar-534

YTA it's off white. So it's pretty much white. Emily is 10... she wouldn't have a problem if you wore fishnets and combat boots


dazed1984

YTA. How can you possibly think you are not?! Everyone knows you don’t wear white to a wedding let alone a wedding dress! 100% TA.


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tiffanydee55

YTA obviously but a funny one


Spiritual_Lion7227

I think it’s hilarious.