Image copyright Debbie Speranza Image caption Debbie Speranza (centre) with her identically dressed friends, and the bride, Julia Mammone 
 
 For many women, turning up to a 'do' in the same dress as someone else would be crushing, but when you find five other wedding guests have picked the same outfit all you can probably do is laugh. 
 
 So instead of spending the day at a wedding in Sydney, Australia, trying to avoid each other, six friends in almost identical dresses decided to poke fun at themselves and lined up for a photograph with the bride, Julia Mammone. 
 
 Julia also saw the funny side along with Facebook users who have viewed and shared the photo more than 42,000 times. 
 
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 It was posted by Debbie Speranza, who dubbed herself and her friends "#backupbridesmaids." Laughing at the coincidence, Debbie posted a second photo, and asked: "What are the odds?" 
 
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 Slightly overwhelmed at the "outta control" social media reaction, Debbie said she was still amused by what happened. 
 
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 Debbie also shared the photo with the shop where the women had bought their dresses, saying: "You really should start a bridal registry so that your customers can enquire whether anyone else has purchased one of your dresses for the same event - no we are NOT the bridesmaids just the guests." 
 
 That post alone drew more than 10,000 comments with friends tagging each other with memories of similar, if not such large-scale, fashion faux pas. 
 
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 Jamie-Leigh Austin's friend Laura Frazer said wearing the same dress to a wedding as a stranger was a great conversation starter. 
 
 But Yeng Vang wrote: "My worst nightmare being dressed the same as someone else. I would literally go home and change." 
 
 And Sandra James wrote about turning up to her daughter's wedding only to find she was wearing the same outfit as the mother-of-the-groom. 
 
 Rather than dodging the photographer, she said she was on "such a high" that both women just decided to get on and embrace the day. 
 
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 But spare a thought for Chantel Lopex-Rubio. 
 
 It can be hard enough to cope when you're at a fancy function wearing the same dress as another guest - or as five others - but how do you recover when you realise your expensive frock is a dead ringer for the curtains? 
 
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 By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News Team ||||| Life went one better than art on Saturday when six Sydney women – who were not bridesmaids - arrived at a wedding reception all accidentally wearing the same A$160 (£95) dress. 
 
 Mirroring the 1993 Alan Ball play, Five Women Wearing The Same Dress, after some initial confusion the six women – whose group photos have prompted amused horror from women around the world - eventually bonded, before dancing the night away. 
 
 "Imagine the odds," Debbie Speranza, one of the six women, wrote on a Facebook post on fashion brand Forever New's Facebook page. That photo has since received 39,000 likes over 9,500 comments. 
 
 Ms Speranza set the scene for the Telegraph two days later: "My cousin and I walked into the reception and saw each other [in the same dress] and started laughing, but then another walked in … then another one … and another one. There was about 200 people.”
– Debbie Speranza was surprised when she met up with her cousin at a Sydney wedding reception recently and they were wearing the same dress. But both women were even more surprised when they kept bumping into other women also in the same dress—a total of six women at the Australian wedding, which was attended by about 200 people total, showed up in the A$160 (about $128 USD) dress from Forever New. "No we are NOT the bridesmaids just the guests," Speranza wrote on the brand's Facebook page alongside a picture of the six women with the bride, Julia Mammone. She did dub the group #backupbridesmaids when the post went viral on social media, the BBC reports. "Then another walked in … then another one … and another one," Speranza tells the Telegraph. "A couple of the women were a little bit 'ahhhhh' but then we all saw the fun in it." She adds, "It wasn't a setup, I swear. I only knew one of the six women. Three were from the bride's side and three from the groom." The six women and Mammone are scheduled to appear on an Australian morning show Wednesday to discuss the viral incident.