When my wife opened our friends’ wedding invitation, she froze. At the bottom of the RSVP card, in dramatic handwriting, were the words: “Ladies — please wear white, wedding dresses welcome!” We were baffled. Everyone knows you don’t wear white to a wedding. When I called the groom, my old friend David, he explained the truth: Emily’s mother, Dorothy, had been planning for months to upstage her daughter by wearing her own wedding gown. Emily’s brilliant counterattack? Invite every woman to wear white so her mother would never stand out.
