Avoid wrap dresses, never wear frills or floaty fabrics and pastel prints are always a no! Here's what's REALLY flattering for over-50s at weddings By Shane Watson For The Daily Mail Published: 16:51 BST, 30 June 2024 | Updated: 17:30 BST, 30 June 2024 e-mail View comments There’s nothing like a Really Big Wedding for giving you good ideas, so, when the season kicked off with the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster at the start of June, everyone was keen to see what the guests were wearing. You might think that a society do attended by royalty is no place to pick up wedding dressing tips. Surely the aristocracy wear something made-to-measure with a matching hat and it’s all way beyond the reach of us Normals? In fact British weddings are fairly conservative affairs, where the same conventions apply whether you’re heading back to the family castle or the Dog and Duck.
While some details change over the years (you won’t need a hat like the one Kristin Scott Thomas wore in the classic 1994 film Four Weddings and A Funeral), a lot of rules stay the same and apply across the board. The marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster took place at the start of June Most of the female guests at the ceremony in Chester wore dresses - including plenty of those floral prints that were supposed to have been retired For example, it’s still all about a pretty dress. At the Westminster wedding most of the female guests of all ages, were wearing dresses, including plen.
