Weddingbee Blog

When I pictured myself walking down the aisle towards Mr. Nachos, in my head he was wearing the expected white linen shirt and khaki pants. The more we looked at pictures though, the more we both liked all white better.

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We really thought we’d be able to find white linen in July with no problem. Boy, were we wrong. Mr. Nachos called the Men’s Warehouse and was told that they had white linen pants and long sleeve shirts in stock, so we headed out and thought we were in for some easy one-stop shopping. When we got there, the gentleman that greeted us at the door looked at us like we were speaking a foreign language. They had already gotten their fall clothes and were out of stark white linen. On to Kohl’s. They had a great pair of drawstring pants, but paired with the only long sleeve shirt they had (no collar, kind of pajama-looking), I am not kidding, Mr. Nachos looked like he was ready to crawl into bed. I think I laughed until I peed a little.

We ended up going downtown on Michigan Avenue and went from store to store with no luck. Our last stop before we hit the train was TJ Maxx. And believe it or not, we found tons of white linen pants and shirts! He tried on a few shirts that were a bit see-through, and with his chest hair, it looked like he was trying to smuggle a small animal under there.

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Gotta be careful with linen!

He tried on a few more and we found the perfect ensemble, a Michael Kors long sleeve shirt, along with perfectly matching Polo Ralph Lauren pants (and we saved about $200 based on the marked down price tags). So we left with smiles on our faces, the wallet a little heavier than expected, and Mr. Nachos’ wedding attire. And he’s wearing Michael Kors! That’s a first. Good old TJ Maxx. Who knew?