The wedding guest was asked to hand over a yellow dress that appeared white under black lights
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The wedding guest was asked to hand over a yellow dress that appeared white under black lights

Here comes the ̶ ̶b̶r̶i̶d̶e̶ angry bridesmaid.

A wedding guest was left feeling “believably embarrassed” after a bridesmaid asked her to leave the reception because her yellow dress looked white under black lights.

The unexpected event was recently shared further Reddit’s “Am I an A-hole?” board with a woman asking if she was at fault for not “respecting etiquette”.

Over the summer, the guest claimed she wore a “bumblebee yellow” ruffled dress similar to the one Belle wore in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” At first, she “didn’t question whether it was appropriate.”

A bridesmaid tried to kick a guest out of a wedding because her yellow dress looked white under a black light. Getty Images/iStockphoto

“I come to the wedding, we have the ceremony, the cocktail hour, the dinner and the reception. I get a lot of compliments on the dress and the bride even comments how much she loves it multiple times,” the Reddit user wrote.

Things took a turn at the dance party during the end of the reception when the venue dimmed the normal lights and flashed black lights that made her yellow dress look “more white than yellow.”

A bridesmaid, who was a family member, noticed the transformed outfit under the black lights and called out her ‘white’ dress, describing it as ‘inappropriate’.

“I said the dress was yellow but the black lights made it look white. The member of the wedding party said if I didn’t go she would ‘make me,'” the Reddit user added.

During the “tense” debate, the guest repeatedly insisted her dress was yellow and not white and eventually the bridesmaid approached the groom and pointed “angrily” at her but the new husband ignored the drama and continued dancing.

But the criticism did not end that night.

The bride even complemented the guest’s yellow dress before the reception. Getty Images/iStockphoto

The next morning I was approached by another friend at breakfast (not in the wedding party) who said they heard what happened and that I should have left when I was asked because it made people “uncomfortable” and that I was “partying” ” rather than “respecting wedding etiquette,” the guest complained.

The whole ordeal made her very self-conscious so she asked social media users if she was an a-hole for not leaving the wedding when she was told to.

The majority of online commenters agreed that she did nothing wrong.

The bride and groom did not mention the dress dispute to the guest after the wedding. AP

One person wrote that the dispute was “ridiculous” because no one is actually checking their attire under black lights to make sure they aren’t setting up the bride.

Another suggested they should have just turned off the black lights so this wouldn’t be a problem.

“Pretty nice dress for a wedding guest. I’m sure it looked exactly like a black light wedding dress,” said one user.

The woman had seen the couple since their wedding and neither of them mentioned anything about her outfit so she wondered if the bridesmaid was “just being protective and doing what she thought was right.”