u/lemonadesdays

Hi!

I am attending a wedding and the bride would like guests to wear pastel colors. I’m a bright winter and don’t own any pastel colors besides baby blue, and since this is a two days wedding I’d need a second dress (different style) the next day. What color do you think would work the best, if any? 🥹
If you guys think it will make me look like I’m dead then I won’t buy anything too nice not to waste my money on something I won’t be looking good in

For reference I’m very pale with very dark brown hair almost black, and light blue eyes

Thanks!

Four Seasons Paris had my review removed and got me restricted from reviewing luxury hotels in Paris on Google Maps.

I’ve been to the Four Seasons a few years ago as a visitor only (staying friends, guest of restaurant and of their tea time), stayed at the Ritz this year, last year Crillon and the year before Mandarin Oriental. I genuinely can’t stand the Four Seasons. Not because of one bad visit, but because of how they handle negatives reviews.

For context: I’m a Level 8 Local Guide on Google Maps with hundreds (closer to thousands) of detailed reviews, the vast majority of them positive and with pictures. I’m not a serial complainer.

A while back, when I used to still live in Paris, I was a frequent guest of the FS for cakes, evening drinks and tea time, and went for one with my mom, who was visiting Paris. They told us the tea service was full, except 70% the seats were visibly empty. Not only they didn’t want us to sit, but the staff were openly condescending to us. Seeing that, a kind visitor who was having a tea too actually felt so bad watching how we were being treated that he gave us his own seat. After that, the staff started staring and whispering about us, and the service somehow got even worse. Nobody else came to the so said booked tables. Neither my mom or I were wearing any luxury items but our clothes were clean and still decent.

At the time, I left a 2/5 review on both Google Maps and TripAdvisor, with photos (including some genuinely beautiful ones of the flowers at the entrance, I wasn’t trying to trash the place, just be honest).

Shortly after my Google Maps account got mysteriously banned. I eventually recovered it after a lot of emails with the customer support, but to this day I’m still blocked from reviewing luxury hotels in Paris specifically. I just noticed it this week as I was trying to review the ritz Paris 5/5. And it’s a shame because I no longer live in Paris, I do stay in these hotels as a guest quite often, not just as a tea-time visitor. Visitor or hotel guest, it doesn’t matter though, the service of a palace shouldn’t be this way.

TripAdvisor also had emailed me to ask if my review was “authentic,” because the hotel had claimed it wasn’t. I held my ground. They didn’t take my account down but the review got removed anyway.

Years later, I still go to Paris often. I adore the Crillon and the Ritz. But I will never set foot in the Four Seasons again.

A palace that silences its guests has already lost the right to call itself one.

I just wanted to share this, as someone who looks at negative reviews online a lot before booking a hotel