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I know people that do. It's fine. I think a short afterparty dress looks a bit classier though. I really do hate seeing a bride in full regalia chugging a beer at a casual bar. It just looks a lil sloppy, like she wanted to continue drinking her pain away lol. JK. But for real, I am going w a short cute number. Bridal but not over the top.
@kelly105:I would wear my wedding dress if we had an afterparty! Totally. It cost how much? I'm not getting another one!
It's still your day. Wear it. :)
wear the hell outta that dress!! if the after party was the next day... i'd say it was a little weird, but that night with other wedding guests?? i'd say it's fine and encouraged=)
I wore my dress to our "afterparty", which was basically going out to a casual bar with a bunch of our guests. Ironically, I had planned to change and actually brought a shorter dress with me (my mom felt very strongly about not letting me keep the dress on at the bar). BUT I didn't have time to change at the venue because I was having too much fun dancing and then saying goodbye to all the guests. Then we were leaving the venue and didn't really have space in the car to lay out the dress nicely so my mom actually encouraged me to keep it on. And then we just went straight to the bar. Although the hotel was like next door, I didn't think I'd have the energy to come back out once I went in to change - it had been a long day! Plus DH was planning a surprise for me in the wedding night room so they wouldn't let me in there anyway.
Anyway, this is all a very long way of saying that I think you should just keep your dress on the whole night :)
Not sure about in Baltimore, but I've heard that some bars/clubs in LA won't let brides in in their dresses. They are worried about the dress getting damaged and the bride suing the bar. Might be safest just to get a cute white cocktail dress for the afterparty.
If we were having an afterparty, I'd totally rock my dress right through it. Because honestly, when will I ever get a chance to wear it again? Tacky or not, I'd want that thing on as long as humanly possible!
PS - Go Baltimore! This thread makes me want to come party with you. ;)
I dont know really know if its considered tacky or not, but I agree with "wear the hell out of that dress"! Its youre ONE day to wear a wedding dress! If its as simple as walking out of your venue and out into night life, heck yeah I'd leave the dress on and party on!
I'd wear it till it fell off, you invested so much time and money getting it. But it would depend on what kind of dress. If its heavy satin in July I might want a shorter, cuter dress to dance until the wee morning in it.
I think if you are going to a bar, who cares about tacky! I agree @lox: rock it girl!
If we do afterparty I plan on wearing my dress. It is your day so wear the heck out of that dress
First of all, it's your day who gives a crap what "others" may think! I plan on wearing my dress out after our reception, and I don't care if anyone thinks it's tacky! I was a BM in my friend's wedding and we went out to local bars (Jersey shore in summer) afterwards and it was a blast, many free cocktails from strangers and funny pics at the bars. DO IT!
We are having an afterparty at a nice resturant/bar that is at our hotel. It is right next to the pool, so it is going to be kind of a pool party. I am going to most likly wear a cocktail dress, but I keep on thinking I might wear my wedding dress but FI bought me this gorgeous cocktail dress with beautiful matching shoes.
We pretty much hung out at the bar of the hotel where everyone stayed. Yes, I kept my dress on! I didn't want to take it off!
If you're getting a sheath dress I think it will be fine. But anything else would seem hard to party in.
Our after party is at a bar that is in the hotel we are staying in - which is across the street from our reception but it is part of the same "resort" type place. You bet your ass I'm wearing my whole getup - it is a Thursday so it will likely be mostly just my family and friends from the wedding...and...wait for it...it's karaoke night!!! HAHAHA I'm sure I will be rocking out to a few songs with my amazing (NOT) voice! It is my one and only wedding and I am going to wear the hell out of my amazing outfit and shoes woohoo!
P.S. I also can't get past the fact that if I change dresses...it won't be my wedding gown my then husband is taking me out of at the end of the night! LOL
Rock it, especially since it's a sheath dress! Not going to lie, I wouldn't want to wear mine since it's a rather large ballgown, lol, but I think a sheath dress will be great.
i kinda wish i'd kept my dress on! but, and this may be tmi, i hadn't gone to the bathroom once the whole time i had on the dress, like almost 10 hours, so before heading to the bar for our impromptu afterparty my moh helped me out of the dress, and it was a huge ordeal since there were these teeny buttons all down the back, so i just threw the dress i'd worn to the rehearsal dinner the night before back on. lol....
I want to say ROCK THAT DRESS, however, I want to throw in a slight note of practicality. I originally thought I was going to get a simple dress, tried on something a little more elaborate and fell in love. Now I plan on having an afterparty, and the PLAN is to keep wearing the dress so (ROCK THE DRESS), however I'm finding an afterparty dress in the instance I go "Dude, this dress is heavy, hot, and I want it off now now now" Because that MAY happen. So if it's in your budget, I'd have a back up dress and if possible make it a dress you'd wear again so it's not like you have two dresses you probably aren't going to wear again. That's just my 2 cents.
I agree with all the ladies that say wear it as long as you want. It's your day and you only get to wear it once (unless you TTD later). I'm trying to talk a GM whose house is near the reception site to host an after party--especially since he has a great bar in his basement. I'll totally keep my dress on all night.
Go B-MORE!!
I would wear your dress! You only get one opportunity to wear it so I say keep it on.
I plan on wearing the hell out of my dress too. I will be in the hotel bar playing Rock Band and drinking a beer.
Our afterparty is at a rooftop bar overlooking the river across the street from our reception venue and I am wearing my dress there for three reasons:
1. I don't want to bother changing first
2. I'm wearing that thing as long as possible because I will never get to wear it again
3. I want pictures on the balcony of the bar overlooking the river because the view is amaaaaazing and I'd hate for those pictures to be of me in some old party dress.
I will definitely wear my dress cause I'm just going to some hotel bars to relax w/ my friends. I always wanted to do a destination version my wedding is the Stateside version of my plan. Hanging w/ my friends and family relaxing w/ a glass of wine.
I plan to do it, but I'm wearing a simple chiffon gown. I just pray I don't spill wine on my dress the entire night :)
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Bees,
I am having my wedding in the city where I live (Baltimore). I assume the majority of our guests will be staying in a hotel near my reception venue (which is in the middle of swanky nightlife.) Do you think it would be tacky for me to go to a bar/afterparty in my wedding dress with all of my family & friends? Or should I change into a different "shorter" dress for the afterparty?
I didn't purchase a wedding dress yet but I plan on getting something very plain (like a sheath dress without a train). If I got something really plain like that, would it be OK to wear to an "afterparty" or too tacky?