MOB style- does common sense go out of the window?

Thank you for that info Hilda's. I will look into EWM asap in search of CC. Great news.

Indeedee, MawBroon, bridal shop assistants gush and fawn (obviously to get an easy sale) over the most trite MOB outfits.

ie: acrylic or crimplene in peach, lavender or pistachio with Queen Mother hat to match. Easily puts 100 years on anyone!

Would they dare to offer this shapeless, frumpy kind of stuff to some like say......Janet Street-Porter?

Why buy MOB dresses in a bridal shop? I didn't go near one for my own wedding, or buy any bridal magazines and did neither for DS wedding either.

Just go out and buy something that you like and feels comfortable and forget about the occasion. Nobody is going to take much notice of you anyway.

I think madness overtakes some mothers. It certainly did this one, when both my children married in the same year. I bought two designer outfits, absolutely eye wateringly expensive, from a boutique full of snotty assistants; the first looked ok but was horribly uncomfortable and the second was comfortable but I looked like one of those toilet roll covers that were around in the seventies in old lady's houses.
They hang in my wardrobe still, a decade later, and are a reminder to keep it simple, comfortable - and a lot cheaper!

I have no daughters but have been MOG twice
My older son got married abroad without my knowledge so I mossed out MOG outfit
My younger son has been married twice and both weddings I wore a dress I already had worn and no hat.I hate the lampshade hats that seem to be MOB or MOG standard wear in shops and don't like fascinators either.
I am with the belief that it is the bridal couple's day and they should not be outshone as long as you look clean and tidy
My younger son seems to collect wives/partners so I have told him I cannot keep up with the expense of his weddings.

As I don’t have a daughter I won’t ever be MOB and as none of my three sons want to get married even though two of them have been in very, very long relationships I will never be MOG Though I did buy a beautiful Bonmarche dress for 99p and a jacket from a jumble sale for youngest Grandaughters christening and received many compliments on my outfit

I should have said the 99p dress was from the 99p sell off rail in Age U.K. and I’ve since worn it to other occasions
Like Jayelld I’m very thrifty, and anything over £10 for a wear once dress is a no no for me too

Glitter - you obviously have a good eye for what suits you and confidence to put an outfit together.
The charity shop dress I've been wearing in good weather for several years has had several spontaneous compliments in the past weeks. It's comfortable, both fits and suits me and has a Wallis label.

Sorry to go off subject but looking at the dresses I’ve been wearing in the heatwave, two are Debenhams, a Monsoon and two M&S all charity shop buys

I was at Kew Gardens at the weekend and was amused to see w lady wearing the jungle print M&S dress that I wore for DD's wedding 21 years ago. It still looked very nice and made me wish I'd hung on to it.