WAY OT: Suits for wedding
For sure. Congrats.
M want or care about being compared to Wisky.
A friend of mine (and fellow Michigan grad) also used the Black Tux. It was a decent suit, fit well, and very simple ordering/return process. I had a good experience with them.
Another friend of mine ended up just buying suits from one of those online suit sites (I think maybe Combatant Gentleman or Spier & Mackay). Not too much more expensive than renting and you get a decent suit out of it.
Rent a Tux. Make the day special. Hopefully you get married just once.
How often do where a tux. Maybe when M plays Wisky. Good luck.
A buddy of mine got married six or seven years ago, and he told us groomsmen that we had to buy a specific suit (can't remember brand) and shirt. It was implied that he was being directed by a higher authority, if you know what I mean. I was the only guy outside of the DC area, and so the Nordstrom person at Tysons got me hooked up with Nordstrom near Kansas City. After a four hour drive, dropping about $900 on suit and shirt, I got the suit tailored here locally in Iowa. It is a beautiful suit, and it's paid for itself a few times over I think, as I've worn it to a lot of other weddings and funerals and formal events. Point is, consider buying the suits, but keep it in the budget you think your friends have.
Edit: Hickey Freeman was the brand.
$900 for a groomsmen suit is a lot of dough.
Yeah it was (included cost of shirt, which was about $100...). I was pissed, but I rationalized it when I saw how nice the suit was and I could wear it for practically any dressy occasion. I never wear suits anymore for work (thank God), and so it's worn three or four times a year.
As long as you get use out of it. Imagine if you didn't. I was in my brother's wedding and his wife chose the most unflattering yet inexplicably expensive polyester dress for the bridesmaids. I donated it to Goodwill the next day.
Yup - you women get the short end of the stick when it comes to wedding dress. I also forgot to mention we got nice ties from the groom, and his mom made us scarves in our college school colors. I was pretty stoked with mine :)
I hope the wedding is not on a football saturday. That is no fun for anyone
Cost about $180 and then another $30 for tailoring. Awesome suit and great quality for the price.
You can get decently constructed suits these days from direct-to-consumer brands or the private labels of department stores that aren't incredibly shitty and boxy and most of them would look passable off the rack if you buy the right size. And for $30-$100 in tailoring they can look as good as a suit 3-5x the price.
Because of Memorial Day, I was looking around at different suits for myself and my 4 groomsmen. I was really disappointed by the lack of variety from Men's Warehouse. I was able to find a nice grey suit from Macy's that was on sale marked down to $220 from $550 so I just ordered those for everyone and told them that would be my groomsmen gift to them, the only thing they would have to pay for are if they need any alterations to the suit. Some places have good sales sometimes, so I'd just look out for those.
The choice is obvious. Go retro.
Either pick an outfit that most adult men can put together with clothes they already own or pick something versatile in the $200-300 range that your friends can afford (navy or grey). If budget is an issue, go with #1. Renting suits that you can't tailor is a recipe for everybody looking like their first chorus concert in 6th grade.
This seems like good guidance. I have some views on this (probably will put them lower in the thread) but it sounds like you found a good price for something that worked for everyone.
Jos A Bank has very high list prices, but they set them there so that they can offer outrageous discounts that sound way better than they really are. Summer suits like that are often affordable, and it sounds like they have some room to negotiate in return for high volume sales. Wouldn't surprise me if that were ok there, given the kind of sales that they offer.
And a navy poplin suit is something that a guy can use.
Unless there's a chance that the suit can -- and will -- be worn more than a few times, go cheap.
Wedding Industry: Batshit insanity.
More importantly, congrats and good luck!
Excuse me for dropping it into this thread but has anyone tried one of these? Pretty pricy ($80-100), unless they are really special.
Saw an ad (on a plane?), got excited as I go untucked nearly all the time, checked their site, saw prices, frowned.
Haven't tried.
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That's what I did. Seems to have worked out all right romance-wise. Still married 38 years later.
I've known plenty of people over the years who had big-ass weddings with all the trimmings whose marriages didn't make it even half as long as ours has.
I'm not a fan of actual elopement (small ceremonies with close family & friends are fine) but it is true that it's not how the marriage starts, but how it continues. The fanciest wedding I've ever been to resulted in an unhappy marriage and a divorce. Relatives of my wife got married on a lawn with little planning due to pregnancy and they remain happily married nearly 40 years later.
and should consist of the congregation watching the game on a big screen.
As the fourth quarter ends and Michigan wins, all in the congregation shout their do/do not question (e.g. "Who thinks it's great to be a Michigan Wolverine?") while the minister/marraige officiant is sure to ask "Do you take one another to be your lawfully wedded spouse?"
The couple says "I do" in unison, kisses, and everyone is happy.
(Oh, and drinks are served throughout the "ceremony".)
because she does not need one. This is her day, acquiesce. And get used to it....
You must have met my mother?
My husband's groomsmen wore their own suits. As long as they were dark and not too crazy (like plaid or sharkskin), he was fine with it. My bridemaids wore their own dresses. Black. Got a lot of criticism for that, but we got married at night, and every woman has a black dress.
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