Official Wedding Attire Question/Answer/Picture Thread

[penguin86]

Light gray 1-button MTM suit with Gucci navy/ivory bowtie. Married this summer.

 

[Veremund]

I see you joined SF after your wedding.

 

[penguin86]

I see you joined SF after your wedding.

Yea, the search for a good looking fitting suit at the time is what prompted me to realize how awful off-the-rack suits look on me due to my smaller size.

 

[Mark La Rosa]

I just proposed to my girlfriend and she said yes so I started thinking about what to wear on the day of the wedding.
The wedding is going to be in the Winter so I was thinking about this combination:

-Navy midnight velvet blazer with black peak lapels, one button;
-Light grey flannel trousers with side adjusters and cuffs (I'm quite undecided on the cuffs. Classically
they would be without but what do you think?);
-White marcella shirt with stud buttons;
-Black bowtie (velvet or not?);
-Black patent leather oxford (I love oxfords, I loathe derbys).

Now I do realise that the flannel trousers are somewhat untypical and I was wondering
whether you would suggest something more traditional like classic black smoking trousers
with silk piping and suspenders buttons.

Thanks for your input.

Mark

 

[RogerC]

Congratulations. Marriage is a wonderful thing.

It seems to me you are mixing two dress lineages. 1: The black tie/smoking jacket one which comes from an era where men dressed for dinner, on the highly informal end of that spectrum (a velvet jacket would have only been worn in one's own home, if no guests were present). 2: the blazer and flannels rig, which stems from a navel background and was subsequently adopted of daytime sports. Either can work at a wedding in my view, but like custard and cheese, best enjoyed in separation.

 

[archibaldleach]

Congratulations on the upcoming wedding. If you go with the velvet smoking jacket, I'd do it as a casual black tie ensemble with traditional black evening formal trousers and the marcella shirt. Otherwise, I'd wear a navy or charcoal suit, white shirt and tie with black oxfords. If you want to do a blazer and grey flannels look (a bit casual for a wedding), I'd get a nice traditional navy blazer and wear a plain white dress shirt. Keep the marcella shirt for black tie.

 

[Mark La Rosa]

Thanks for your replies guys.
So, the outfit would look something along this lines (I played a bit with photoshop)

 

[penguin86]

Just curious, why velvet blazer?

 

[ggg458]

So I have procrastinated in ordering a tux for my upcoming wedding such that I can no longer use Kent Wang due to time restrictions. Now I have been looking at Suit Supply and didn't realize that there are essentially only two tux options:

- A midnight blue shawl option but I'm concerned that the blue is not dark enough and looks trendy (and thus dated in 10 years); or

http://us.suitsupply.com/en_US/suit...uits&prefn1=styleFit&prefv1=Evening-Manhattan

- A black peak option, albeit with rounded lapels, which look strange to me


http://us.suitsupply.com/en_US/suit...eFit&prefv1=Evening-Manhattan|Evening-Smoking

Does anyone have any input or reasonable suggestions of other retailers I could look at under $1,000.

For what it's worth, I was planning on getting a Kent Wang shawl collar in a very dark midnight blue.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Van Veen]

Brooks Brothers Fitzgerald shawl or Regent peak. If you buy on Dec. 25th or 26th, it should be 30% + an extra 15%, so ~$714.

It's going to depend a lot on the fit. SuSu did not work for me. BB Fitz did.

I haven't seen the SuSu blue tux in person, but if it's not a true midnight, I would not buy it if it will be your only tux. It will make you stand out in situations you may not want to (e.g. other people's weddings).

 

[facet]

Depending on your size, you can check out ehaberdasher as well for a classic tux at $550:

http://ehaberdasher.com/index.php/clothing/suits/benjamin-sartorial-tuxedo-38l.html

But he's got really limited stock.

 

[white collar]

Brooks Brothers Fitzgerald shawl or Regent peak. If you buy on Dec. 25th or 26th, it should be 30% + an extra 15%, so ~$714.

It's going to depend a lot on the fit. SuSu did not work for me. BB Fitz did.

I haven't seen the SuSu blue tux in person, but if it's not a true midnight, I would not buy it if it will be your only tux. It will make you stand out in situations you may not want to (e.g. other people's weddings).

If it matters to you, I vote BB Fitzgerald, I was in the store not long ago and they are very nice.

 

[misterGF]

Hey All,

Found the perfect suit for my wedding from Bonobos (https://bonobos.com/products/tuxedo-blazer?color=ivory flannel&blazer-fit=slim)
One problem though. My wedding is in August and that blazer is wool...Can anyone recommend something similar in a lighter fabric?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Van Veen]

This.

 

[misterGF]

Thanks. This is a good option.