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My dress is also ivory, and I'm staying away from white as much as possible. But that may just be me- I'm one of those people who has clash-issues: I don't like to mix silver and yellow gold, white and ivory, brown and black, navy and black... Of course, our linens are white,  and I'm not willing to pay extra to rent anything else, so that kind of throws everything out the window!

Go-mizzou, *I* don't think it's crazy but I know my FI would roll his eyes if I talked about it with him!

I'm not worrying about the mens' shirts, though, as I was trying to make it easy on our groomsmen by letting them wear suits/shirts that they hopefully already have. Probably none of them have an ivory shirt, but who doesn't have a white dress shirt? (Not to overgeneralize...)

I am not having a flowergirl so I can't really say, but if I were, I would probably be looking for something ivory and not white. Or, maybe a colored dress? That would solve the white/ivory problem :)

I'm also kind of leaning more toward gold tones than silver tones (even though in 'real life' I hardly ever wear yellow gold) as far as jewelry and small accents. I just feel that it goes better with ivory than silver... 

Ok, maybe it's a little crazy :) 

This is a funny thread to me..  my favorite necklace is a sterling silver circle with a yellow gold chain.  I wear black and brown together all the time (and not to toot my own horn, but it looks darn chic).

Anyway, my dress is ivory and my flowers, linens, fg dresses, grooms and gm shirts are all white.  I will not look dirty.  I think it is a nice, clean, lovely look.

I'm not a matchy person.  To each their own, I guess. 

yay MJ!  :)  My bridesmaids are wearing black.  Sounds like we are twins!

I don't object because the ivory looks dirty next to white - for me they just don't 'go.' But yes, to each their own! All that said, I'm still going with the white table linens, mens' shirts, etc. next to my ivory dress.

I care, but not THAT much :)

You can definitely use white linens, etc., with your ivory dress, especially if the light will be at all low in your reception area. You're not going to be standing next to the tablecloths and plates all night, after all. Frosting (at least the good stuff, not the shortening based junk) will never be pure white anyway, so you'll be fine with the cake too.

And ditto on having the groom wear a white shirt, it's very hard to match ivory tones, since there are so many different ones.

I ended up changing my dress from white to off-white at the last minute. Everything else will obviously stay white and I'm OK with that. I love my new dress more than anything and I love the look of our wedding and wasn't willing to compromise on either so white and off-white will just have to work. IMO you can pull off anything as long as you are confident in your choices.