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A wedding planner got an emergency call from her assistant the day of a wedding thanks to an unexpected wardrobe malfunction.
Chloé Salatino Payne, 30, a wedding planner and owner of ADRN Events, went viral after making a small oversight on the big day for a recent client: not letting her assistant know what color the bridesmaids would be wearing.
Her assistant, Melody White, arrived to the venue on the morning of the wedding to help with set up. And as she would be leaving before guests arrived, Salatino Payne "didn't mention the color palette to her for that day."
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As she described it to Newsweek: "Before I arrived at the venue I received a call from Melody, and answered to a very fast whisper of 'I am here, and I look like a bridesmaid'."
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Salatino Payne admitted she thought White "must be somewhat exaggerating", though she wouldn't usually be the type to do this—and when she arrived at the venue and saw her assistant standing near the bridesmaids, she realized they had "very clearly matching dresses."
Rather than panic, Salatino Payne addressed the mix-up with a laugh, assuring the wedding party and the marrying couple that White would be finished up before the wedding itself, and says "they all thought it was pretty cute."
"I asked them for a video right before [White] left, saying 'please let me capture this, maybe this will be the thing that goes viral.'
"I was thrilled to be right for once!"
A video shared to her TikTok account @adrnevents on April 28 exploded in popularity, viewed a whopping 10 million times and boasting more than 1.1 million likes.
It showed White, standing in a hallway in a long, pale yellow dress, looking sheepish. The camera then pans to six bridesmaids, standing behind White, all dressed in—you guessed it-—long, pale yellow dresses.
"POV: You're a wedding planner who forgot to tell her coordinator the color of the bridesmaid dresses," Salatino Payne wrote over the clip, adding in a caption: "I am only human!
"The one day she didn't wear black and this happens is so funny to me. Adding to the list of lessons learned!"
TikTok users had a big reaction, with one sharing her own story: "Once showed up to my cousin's wedding in a long black velvet dress. All her bridesmaids were in long black velvet dresses."
"I would've included her in pictures that's so cute," another wrote, and another recalled: "I literally showed up in the SAME dress as one of the bridesmaids and then ended up switching with her when her zipper busted right before the wedding. I now bring two dresses."
One commenter insisted: "Wedding staff shouldn't be wearing anything but black," but another disagreed: "I actually like when photographers, planners, co-ords, etc match the bridal party. They blend in to the crowd and pictures, I think it looks clean."
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Salatino Payne told Newsweek: "I personally love my team to dress like wedding-guests since we are so omnipresent, however we do avoid matching the bridal party!"
While many brides opt for their bridesmaids to wear matching dresses, there is a growing trend in mismatched outfits, allowing bridesmaids to choose their own dresses to fit their style and budget. Keeping a theme of a similar shape, color or pattern can make the group look cohesive without being completely uniform, according to wedding experts The Knot.
Salatino Payne called the response to her video "mostly fun," describing it as the "perfect storm of being a harmless and also cute coincidence.
"Even without the context of her leaving before the wedding, most viewers seem to love the idea of their wedding vendor teams blending in by being dressed up, rather than wearing the all black outfits vendors are often associated with.
"A reminder that it's okay to have fun when dressing, and definitely a reminder to me to share the wedding colors with everyone–ncluding our set-up team!"
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