A young Australian woman has found herself in hot water after announcing her strict wedding rules. Social media star Brittany Hockley is engaged to Swiss soccer player Ben Siegrist, and their dress code sent non-Australians into a tailspin. Hockley explained on her podcast Life Uncut that the long-distance couple experienced a slight miscommunication when they sent out their save the dates.
“Our dress code is pretty standard,” said Hockley to co-host Laura Byrne. “Ben and I send out wedding invites like save the date, and he’s like, ‘Babe, I’m getting these random messages, people keep asking me about the dress code’.“ “This happened four or five times.
” “One of his female friends messaged, ‘Hey, I just wanted to follow up about the dress code’.” “And she was like ‘well how strict is it if it doesn’t go with my dress?’” “And then she goes ‘Well I don’t understand how she is going to know if I wear it who in their right mind would make us wear and enforce no thongs.” Hockley and Byrne burst into laughter as they realised half of the wedding guests thought she was referring to underwear.
“Ben calls me ‘babe half of the wedding thinks you’ve said no g-strings strict enforcement’,” Hockley exclaimed. In Australia, thongs refer to casual open-toe rubber-solid footwear often worn to the beach. In other areas of the world, thong means g-string.
The hilarious podcast snippet was captioned, “If you’re party/wedding planning, .