Mum gets accused of 'huge' wedding outfit faux pas - which we're ALL guilty of making

Hands up who else is guilty of this?

There comes a time in everyone's life when their summers are no longer all about holidays or lazy, sunny evenings in pub gardens.

After a certain age, a good quarter of the year becomes dedicated to attending weddings and Hen Dos.

You barely even notice at first. In fact, in the beginning, your goodwill and enthusiasm is endless.

Then the costs start to mount up.

It's not that you're tight-fisted, but attending weddings can be notoriously expensive.

Few of us, therefore, could be blamed for trying to save wherever possible - and one easy, surefire way is by recycling the outfits we wear to them.

This may seem like no-brainer, the sort of thing SO MANY of us do. Yet one mum has come under fire for daring to suggest it.

Sharing her story on Mumsnet, GameOldBirdz revealed that, "since Christmas, I've been to four weddings."

She continued: "I wore the same outfit to three of these weddings. Two of these same-outfit weddings were the same crowd of people- family."

It should have been fine, except the mum's cousin who was at all the weddings directed a rather barbed comment her way.

"[She] sent me a load of photographs yesterday and said in the email 'It's a shame you couldn't be bothered to wear something different.'"

To her credit, the mum took it on the chin.

"I replied to thank her for sending and said 'I'm sorry if I offended you recycling my outfit, I'm cheap.'

"We have a good relationship, we're friends, I thought she'd take this in good humour."

So this should have been the end if it.

"But no, she sent a massive paragraph saying I was disrespectful, that it was very bad show, it was rude and that if I didn't want to go I should have declined the invitation rather than turn up inappropriately dressed (her words)."

Understandably, the mum was taken aback by her cousin's reaction.

"I did want to go to both weddings," she explains, "it wasn't remotely meant as a 'f*** you' to the couple getting married."

However, she was dealt another blow when she told her mum.

"She agreed with my cousin that it was inappropriate.

"So now I'm doubting myself and worried that I've made a massive faux pas and that everyone hates me?

"Was I being unreasonable to recycle the outfit?"

Fortunately for those of us who can't afford a new outfit per wedding, many thought her cousin was out of order.

One mum raised a valid point about outfit double-standards asking, "Did the men buy different suits too?"