Woman’s Wedding Outfit Goes Viral When Boyfriend Misinterprets Dress Code: EXCLUSIVE
One New York woman put her trust in her boyfriend’s understanding of “black tie” wedding only to find herself mortified and hiding in a stairwell at a the event.
“We get there. The elevator doors open, and I immediately panic,” Ashley Bez, 41, tells TODAY.com
Her partner of ten years, Shane, “bless his heart, thought ‘black tie’ meant the guys dress up and the women can wear whatever they want,” she says. “And I never went to the wedding website, so…”
Inside, guests shimmered in glittering ball gowns and black tuxedos, while Bez stood out in a casual fit-and-flare dress and white Doc Marten boots. The shoes, she explains, were her only option; a calf injury had sidelined her heels.
Spotting an exit sign, she bolted, needing to escape the glittering crowd long enough to catch her breath. That’s where Bez, a comedian, recorded the now-viral Instagram video about her predicament.
“I look like a kindergartner on the first day of school,” she joked in the video, trying to make light of the situation. “I look like a slutty church lady.”
“I keep hiding because I don’t want to ruin all the wedding pictures,” she added.
Having never looked at the invitation herself, Bez assumed the nuptials would be like most of the ones she and Shane attend. The couple mostly run in creative circles, where weddings are typically relaxed affairs, the kind where her outfit would have been right on theme.
After Bez shared her reel, the comments poured in, a mix of fashion scolding, sympathy and support for relatable mistake.
The harsh ones sting, she admits, especially because the dress had sentimental value: her mother, a “talented seamstress,” had crafted it from a three-tiered skirt.
Bez says she’s at peace with how the dress code mix-up played out.
“HE TRULY THOUGHT BLACK TIE MEANT ‘WOMEN CAN WEAR WHATEVER THEY WANT,’ WHICH IS KIND OF BEAUTIFUL,” Bez wrote in the caption of her post. “HE THOUGHT IT WAS THE ONE TIME MEN HAD RULES AND WOMEN DIDN’T. ALSO, I WENT TO THIS WEDDING WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE INVITATION.”
Despite her initial panic, Bez stayed at the wedding until the end, and eventually managed to enjoy herself.
She wasn’t the only one who’d missed the memo, either.
“When they saw me, I could see the relief on their faces,” she says, laughing. “It was like, ‘Oh, thank God, someone else blew it worse than I did.”
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