Mother Breaks The Internet When She Lets Her 2-Year-Old Son Wear A Dress To Her Wedding

When our girls saw him in a dress on our wedding day, they just laughed and thought it was cute. They adore him. They didn’t have any questions about it. I constantly talk to them about how everyone is different and being of a certain gender doesn’t define what you can and can’t wear or like. We actually just had a discussion yesterday about how girls can be strong and like to play with dinosaurs just as much as boys do.

The dress also wasn’t any sort of problem with guests. The wedding was so small that everyone knew that it was likely he would end up wearing a dress. In the lead-up to it, I had heard a few comments here and there but I don’t pay any attention to what others say. He is our son and this was out choice.

In the end, the people we had at the wedding knew that he loved to wear a dress and they saw how happy he was, so it wasn’t an issue.

I’ve read comments that said he shouldn’t be deciding what to wear because he is 2.
We could have forced him into the outfit but what would that have achieved? Lots of unnecessary stress and tears. I respected his choice.

The end result was beautiful.

I worried about what he would think when he is older but then I am raising three very conscious, curious, kind, and accepting little people. By the time he is of an age to understand, I am hoping he will be confident enough in himself to know that this is not that big a deal, your clothes don’t define who you are as a person, and other people’s opinions don’t matter. What matters is that we are kind, we are true to who we really are and that we accept people where they are at in a particular point in time.