Dressing the Gents

Dressing the Gents

September 2nd, 2010 @ 10:39 am by Mrs. Knitting
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Dressing Mr. Knitting and the men of the wedding party was ridiculously easy. Mr. Knitting isn’t in love with the look of a tux, so he’ll be wearing his suit with my grandfather’s tie.

Here’s a look at the suit (I still have no clue what the tie looks like):

As for Mr. K’s two groomsmen, Mr K refused to contact them to let them know what he’d (I’d) like them to wear because he thought that sounded crazy and bossy. Yeah, he doesn’t know a lot about weddings.

Anyway, I was concerned that if we didn’t tell them what to wear, there was the possibility that they might show up looking like this:

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In order to avoid this possibility here’s the (ever-so-anal and bossy) email I ended up sending to his friends:

Hi guys,

Mr. Knitting refuses to communicate with you about what to wear at our wedding so I’m doing it for him. We (really, just I) would like you to wear a black suit with a white shirt, and a burgundy or grey tie. Let me know if you have any issues with this.

Thanks!

Miss Knitting

They both responded saying this was fine, although one of them asked to be reminded of when the wedding is and if there is going to be an invitation. Yeah, Mr. Knitting doesn’t really keep them in the loop all that much…

Anyway, that’s the extent of our effort in terms of dressing the gents. So far it’s been stress- and hassle-free (although now that I’ve written that, Mr. K’s suit is probably going to split in half 5 minutes before the ceremony!).

What was your experience like dressing your gents?

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9 Responses to “Dressing the Gents”

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TheFutureMcBride (message) 4,461 posts, Honey bee

Sounds great. Our guys could pick out whatever tux they wanted, but they had to have a black vest, certain tux shirt, and Pool tie. We gave them Converse and argyle socks to wear, so they were happy. What’s really awesome is McHusband and his brother bother wore tails throughout the reception. Now we have some awesome pictures where our bridesmaids all have different outfits as do our groomsmen.

9/2/10 @ 10:50 am (reply)

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Impressive article and great discussion out here regarding the mens dressing.I personally believe mens dress should be simple one and much favourite combination is of the Black and white.

9/2/10 @ 10:57 am (reply)

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Miss Glasses (message) 2,741 posts, Sugar bee

Sounds easy enough! Black suit and a white shirt, I don’t think anyone would have objections to that.

I’m really peeved at Mr. G’s guests in England. None of them have sent their RSVPs back and I told him that if he didn’t communicate better about reminding them to send them back, I’d personally track them all down on Facebook and badger them!

9/2/10 @ 11:11 am (reply)

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Miss Sand Dollar (message) 1,305 posts, Bumble bee

My wedding is pretty closely following one of Mr. SD’s best friend’s wedding. Pretty much all the same guys are in both parties, and since the other bride was pretty demanding (they all had to go buy the same EXACT white button up shirt for $60 even though they’re all broke college kids) I’m looking pretty cool. I asked them to wear things they all already own

9/2/10 @ 11:16 am (reply)

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EmmyJayneMay (message) 41 posts, Newbee

Those pics are funny.

Firstly, I’m having a pirate wedding. Dressy 1770’s ispired bridal party outfits. (Not dress-ups.)
I’m sewing everything myself. Everything. My dress, BMs dresses, hubby’s coat and GM coats. 5BMs 5GM. I won’t be making the guys shirts or pants as I have found them online for some very good prices. I don’t know what the guys think about the outfits I’ll be making, because I don’t know how much He’s told them. I’m pretty sure he hasn’t actually asked one of them yet.

He, however, stopped me describing the coat I WAS going to be making for him and drew me a picture and described EXACTLY what he wants. It has to be cream and tan, not chocolate and cream, with a collar and lapels, 20cm foldback cuff, with the tan contrast for collar, lapels, cuffs and the top of the invisibe pockets on the front at hip height, cuffs must split on this side, 2 buttons at the base of lapels, 3 on cuffs, cuff buttons to be smaller than front buttons, stone buttons, not plastic or coconut, black or charcoal, internal breast pockets inside lining big enough to fit whisky flask and cigarette packet, to this length, split this high at he back, with a buckle on the waist at the back, in contrast, made of mock suede, line with satin. Red patterned embossed Satin.

He’s not too fussed about everything else, his only other provisos so far have been ‘there must be rum and I want a cannon’.

Honestly, I hate non-matching bridal party outfits, I can see the appeal but I’m a bit ocd about things matching, and a friend had dress dilemmas with the bridesmaids for her wedding. They wound up with everything from (too) short party dresses to floor length ball gowns in different shades. So I would not be as easygoing as you abut this two colours of ties thing, or ot seeing the outfits to make sure they look ok together.
Having said that, ours are going to have different (but similar) designs in the same fabrics. It didn’t quite seem piratey to have identical dresses.

9/2/10 @ 11:44 am (reply)

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SandraMarie_1986 (message) 1,363 posts, Bumble bee

Sounds easy enough to me. I haven’t tackled this part of the wedding yet.

9/2/10 @ 12:49 pm (reply)

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jordynrose (message) 6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

Ugh! I have this same problem with FI. I ask him on a weekly basis to email his guys and tell them what we’d like them to wear. My rationale — not all of them might have a black suit, so they need to either find a place to rent or buy one, and the longer the time you have to do that the more it expands your options. He does not seem to get it.

9/2/10 @ 1:13 pm (reply)

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Sarah

I let the groom pick, and he not only decided on a tux, he coincidentally decided on the tux on the cover of the tux catalog. That made reporting back to the curious MOG very easy: it’s this, right here, with the same vest and tie, in the same color. The only flaw was the in-laws staunchly refused to believe he’d done it all himself!

9/2/10 @ 1:17 pm (reply)

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Miss Hippo (message) 1,008 posts, Bumble bee

I too am having that same FI issue. He just doesn’t get that it takes TIME to get an outfit together - be it a suit or renting a tux or whatever. Argh!!!

9/6/10 @ 10:15 am (reply)