Southern Charm or Redneck?

*Disclaimer- I do not mean to offend anyone who had or wishes to have cowboy boots be a part of their wedding.

    I attended a wedding yesterday, and yes it was a wedding on a Sunday. I think perhaps the first wedding I've been too on a Sunday. I didn't know either the bride or the groom I went as a date and basically my entire circle of friends was there. And being very fond of weddings I never turn down an invite.
    Now, I knew before hand that the bridal party would be wearing boots, something that I've grown to accept as being part of several southern weddings. But that's besides the point. While getting dressed I had several factors to think about. It was an outdoor wedding, at 4 O'clock, it had a "rustic" theme, there was going to be a keg, and of course the whole boot thing. I chose a blue dress and paired it with some new red heels. Dressing down never really was my thing.
     Upon arriving I realized that cowboy boots weren't just being worn by the bridal party but by almost every girl in attendance. Also, there were people there in jeans... in jeans! I couldn't believe it.
     By this point I'm trying to take in all of my surrounding. Decorations, seating, atmosphere everything, but I'm not here to harp on this girls wedding. I'm here to talk about the fine line between southern charm and straight up redneck.
     I know you cannot exactly control what your guests wear, but if the entire bridal party is already wearing boots then having guests in jeans really pushes your affair into the redneck side. Sitting on hay bells instead of actual seating can be considered rustic, but when you have a keg it takes a turn to the redneck.
     All of these things are not singularly bad it's when they are combined that it becomes bad. Now, just because we are from the south does not mean we can't have class. And I think that because the world already thinks of us as rednecks we have a harder time pulling the "rustic" southern wedding off without coming across as rednecks.
     If your true personality is the burlap, boot, mason jar type then so be it. But personally I think it's being over done. We're southern, maybe a bit country we know. Why must we flaunt it so?