Comments on: What Is a Groom To Wear, Anyway?

By: weeza

weeza — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:17:34 +0000

Is it just me, or does that guy look like he should have his hair in a pony tail and be throwing knives around on a submarine whilst teaching a blonde with unfeasibly large knockers to shoot baddies through her tears? Cool suit.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:45:26 +0000

When my mother and step-father got married this July, my mother wore a pink satin dress with a silver lace overlay. I don’t know if that’s why my step-dad went with white tuxes for himself and his groomsmen, but it certainly looked sharp.

If nothing else, it was sensible for the weather - the last weekend in July was rather warm, so the light colors we were all wearing helped keep us cool long enough to scramble into the air conditioned hall, lol.

By: Pencils

Pencils — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:26:17 +0000

I wore a traditional gown, but Mr Pencils wore a tan suit with a very light stripe to our morning wedding. I was a little doubtful about a tan suit at first, although I’d liked the examples I’d seen from other (mostly beach) weddings. But it was what Mr Pencils wanted. (He chose it himself, I wasn’t there. I only helped with choosing his shirt and tie.) And I think it worked. He looked very handsome, and happy, and comfortable. I think he would have been uncomfortable in a morning suit, and I don’t think men should wear tuxes in the morning. We asked the other men in the wedding party to wear a suit, we didn’t care what color. The men didn’t match, but we didn’t take any of the traditional photos with everyone lined up, and during the ceremony they weren’t standing in a line behind the groom, they were holding up the chuppah, so it looked OK. Matching is overrated–the bridesmaids didn’t exactly match either.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:04:46 +0000

I do think it’s pretty unfair to have the groom’s attire (and the groomsmen’s, for that matter) be completely subject to the bride’s wishes, especially given that he’s not even allowed to *see* her outfit until the day. However, I can’t seem to break my admittedly liberal mind of some of the traditional constraints.

At a wedding where my boyfriend was the best man, the bride had vetoed the groom’s idea of having pinstriped tuxes. I think pinstripes are fine, but when my boyfriend suggested that all the guys should just wear their best suit, whatever that may happen to be, I couldn’t seem to wrap my mind around it. Perhaps because, knowing my bf’s friends, I know some of them would take the opportunity to wear something completely goofy just because.

And, maybe that’s not so bad. But I just can’t seem to let go of the idea that they should all at least match, somehow.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:28:27 +0000

I wore a fairly traditional type of gown, but The Beard wore a brown pinstriped number that was just a few clicks shy of a zoot suit. I’m sad to say that I did have a hand in picking it out, but only because he’d waited quite a while and I was starting to get a little worried that we wouldn’t have enough time to get it hemmed and so on. The thing is, besides wanting to wear brown, he seemed to have zero interest in choosing the menswear.