Influencer upstages friends wedding in showy $700 gown: Literally outdid the bride!

In the world of wedding etiquette, the golden rule is simple: don’t upstage the bride.While the lore says the bride is always the most beautiful person in the room, Australian influencer Tahlia Skaines has a knack for challenging that assumption.Skaines may have committed a bridal faux pas after turning up to a friend’s wedding in Greece in a plunging lemon-yellow gown — prompting critics to accuse her of one of matrimony’s most controversial offenses.“Literally outdid the bride!” one commenter declared on her Instagram after the 31-year-old posted photos from the nuptials, while others gushed that she looked “magical.”And Skaines has been here before.In 2024, after wearing a revealing cream-colored cutout gown to another wedding in Bali, critics online were quick to call the look “tacky” and inappropriate for someone else’s big day.Skaines pushed back at the time, saying guests had actually been instructed to wear white — and that the bride herself loved her dress.Now, despite ditching white for yellow, she’s once again found herself at the center of the same debate: When does looking fabulous at a wedding cross the line into stealing the bride’s spotlight?Etiquette and fashion experts say there’s a big difference between dressing to impress and dressing to steal the show — and simply being beautiful, glamorous or even the best-dressed person in the room isn’t necessarily poor form.“You cannot upstage a bride simply by looking beautiful,” fashion designer Amanda Perna told The Post.“You upstage a bride when your choices intentionally redirect attention toward you.”Perna, founder and creative director of The House of Perna and a two-time “Project Runway” designer, has a simple mantra for wedding guests: “Be memorable, but don’t become the event.”That means skipping the obvious bridal offenders—like wearing any variation of white—unless specifically requested, and avoiding the dramatic trains, bridal-style lace...