Megan Scruggs had a specific vision for her May wedding in Bristol, Rhode Island: a “Met Gala” dress code “I wanted my wedding to be really unique, and I hadn’t heard anybody use this phrase before for a dress code,” Scruggs, 29, told The Post. “I wanted people to know that going all out was highly encouraged.” Instead, she admitted, the edict just seemed to confuse guests.
“I was trying to have fun with it and do something that no one else had done, but people got so stressed out,” said the Los Angeles-based content creator. “They were like, ‘We need direction.’” Indeed, party and wedding guests this summer are struggling to decipher creative dress codes that, sometimes, read like word salad.
A month ago, Joseph, a 32-year-old marketing communications professional who lives on the Upper East Side, attended a destination wedding where the dress code was “summer cocktail” — but “black tie welcome.” “They are completely different dress codes,” griped Joseph, who asked to withhold his name lest he not be invited next time. “To me, ‘black tie’ is so straightforward, and the same with ‘summer cocktail.
’ Combining the two seemed oxymoronic.” He tried to do online research, to no avail. “I googled, but you can assume that nothing helpful came up,” he said.
“I couldn’t find a happy medium between the two.” Once he got to the wedding he realized he was not the only one confused. “It was all anyone could talk about,” sai.