Wearing white to a wedding etiquette
Do European people, or more specifically Dutch people know of the rule not to wear white to someone else’s wedding?
This question has been eating me alive since my MIL tried to wear 2 different white dresses to my wedding. She sent the first dress, which was completely white, to my now husband roughly 5 days before our wedding and he immediately told her it was too white and not to wear it. She said it was cream coloured and was irritated but kept looking.
The next day she sends a white dress with a small floral detail on it, to which my now husband told her once again, that it was too white and to pick literally any other colour to wear to his wedding. She got really irritated and ignored him until the wedding.
The day of the wedding she showed up wearing blue, which was fantastic! But, she had been complaining to family about how we said she couldn’t wear white, and ultimately complained to us that she had to order a dress off Amazon a few days before. Mind you, she had known about our wedding for 2 years, so she had time to plan, she just left it to last minute.
There have been other instances of my MIL being undermining or undercutting towards me, but I’m wondering if this is genuinely just a lack of etiquette knowledge issue and maybe she doesn’t hate me as bad as it feels like lol.
We do live in Canada, and she’s been here for over 20 years, but she was born and raised in Holland.
Do Dutch people wear white to weddings?