Weddingbee Blog

I voted for traditional tie, but my FI and his BM are wearing suits, not tuxes.

my guy will be wearing a traditional tie, but he wrote a bow tie at his brother’s wedding and it was fabulous! it was navy blue with white dots and if we weren’t getting married at 10am, he’d be sporting a bow tie at ours too!

email me if you want to see a photo - it really worked well and he got tons of compliments. even now when he wears it to church, on occasion, he gets a lot of compliments

My guy will be wearing a bowtie tux as well (it is how I met him, he was in full tail tux because we met through a singing group and that was the men’s uniform). I was leaning towards the tie tux too, but he’s adamant about the bowtie tux, and so he’ll get it!

At least it’s better than his original first idea - he really wanted to wear a kilt. I’d have been fine with that if we were getting married in New England (where we live), but a kilt in Costa Rica?! He’ll die of the heat. Plus, he only wants to wear his clan’s tartan, which isn’t for rent anywhere and way doesn’t match the purple and green theme going on. Well, it’s got green, but super hunter/forest green, not the spring green we’re going with. And buying a kilt of his own clan’s was going to cost more than my wedding dress cost, and even he could see the lunacy in that.

Wow, long comment, sorry!

My fiance is planning on the bow tie as well. If he could have it his way, he’d be Frank Sinatra reincarnate…so you can see where that decision came from! I think he’s planning on having the groomsmen wear them as well - he’s talked about getting them the ones that you have to tie yourself for their gifts.

Personally, I think it’s very cool - but I’m realizing more and more as I go along that I love the old weddings where everyone made it a huge affair…you know, like gramma and grampa’s…but that’s just my opinion! I’m sure Mr. Blueberry look great whatever he does! You might not even remember what kind of tie he wore in the end, anyway! Come on…you’ll be married!!

I’m dreading sooo dreading this part of the planning. I firmly believe that he should pick out what he wears. After all, there’s *no way* I’d let him pick out what I’m going to wear. But I am a picky little bee and I’m positive he’s going to choose something I’m not very fond of.

He is wearing it, he should get to choose. My guy picked a bowtie and cummberbund (who knew he was such a traditionalist!), and I was fine with it, since we have more of that retro feel to our wedding anyways.

it’s just a matter of taste, and bow ties really are the traditional, formal look for a wedding. plus, the guys get so little say in anything (not saying that’s not their fault!) you might just let him wear what he wants to. i mean, it could be a lot worse, right! actually ms. blueberry, it’s kind of funny. if my FH said he wanted to wear a tie instead of a bowtie, i’d be upset!

My fiance and his groomsmen are wearing traditional tuxes with bowties/cumberbunds and I wouldn’t have it any other way! White for FI, black for the groomsmen.

although i’m a huge backer of the bowtie (as my blacktie wedding party might suggest), i can understand a different taste might skew away from it.

here’s a (subjective) silver lining, though, Miss Blueberry: at the end of the reception (or if you’re doing an afterparty), Mr. Blueberry can pull off the George-Clooney-esque-untied-bow-tie look. to me, anyway, there’s something so charming about an untied bowtie. i think it’s very rakish in an unefforted way. (but maybe that’s just me…)

I’m of two minds on this. On one hand, there is this part of me that is like, well, he should be able to wear what he likes as long as he recognizes I’ll be a big sparkly pile of white silk next to him.

The other hand gently mourns the fact that I don’t get to see him in full formal dress. Oh well. I’ve had a crush on James Bond and his fellow full spectrum of various British Isles formal dress wearers, including Kilts, since I was able to see up them without bending over.

But, I’ll just have to sigh wistfully at pictures of Sean Connery and George Clooney because its looking like he’ll be sporting a brown suit. Barring his suit, I would totally have a cocktail or more formal attire wedding just for fun.