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Originally Posted by Gem21 
Ok wait... so the groom should just wear a white shirt and tie, no vest? I never knew about the belt thing ??? We looked at in ivory tie next to this suit and it looked HORRIBLE.
We did bring the suit into about 3 stores yesterday, that's why I'm posting on here.
Should they all wear white shirts or off white? I've seen green ties look great next to a bone or off white colored shirt. Not sure what you think.
My dress is diamond white or an eggshell color, not ivory/not white.
The venue is on the water but the floors are marble and there is nothing rustic about the place. This is why I am struggling with the formal/informal thing. The place is really not "informal" inside. Lots of natural light though.
As I said, I don't want it to become too much more informal so the women are wearing long gowns and I've asked any immediate family members in pictures to also wear long dresses. I did not want black suits/tuxes and I hate light heather gray (which is great with purple but the venue is a lot of brass and gold and I wanted to stick with warmer tones as much as possible) I should have just stuck with charcoal but we got these for half the price.
Ok wait... so the groom should just wear a white shirt and tie, no vest? I never knew about the belt thing ??? We looked at in ivory tie next to this suit and it looked HORRIBLE.
We did bring the suit into about 3 stores yesterday, that's why I'm posting on here.
Should they all wear white shirts or off white? I've seen green ties look great next to a bone or off white colored shirt. Not sure what you think.
My dress is diamond white or an eggshell color, not ivory/not white.
The venue is on the water but the floors are marble and there is nothing rustic about the place. This is why I am struggling with the formal/informal thing. The place is really not "informal" inside. Lots of natural light though.
As I said, I don't want it to become too much more informal so the women are wearing long gowns and I've asked any immediate family members in pictures to also wear long dresses. I did not want black suits/tuxes and I hate light heather gray (which is great with purple but the venue is a lot of brass and gold and I wanted to stick with warmer tones as much as possible) I should have just stuck with charcoal but we got these for half the price.
Re: the belt, yes, it's because originally men wore suspenders (braces, if you're in the UK) almost exclusively and one of the main functions of the vest was to cover up the braces. So presuming braces are being worn under the vest, the belt becomes superfluous. Also, the belt can kind of make the bottom of the best jut out in an unattractive way. If you do end up wearing vests, the bottom button should be left undone. But yea, you're fine just leaving the vest out.
I think off white is fine for the shirts. Given that it's during the day, you might even try light blue. Again, typically this would be considered too informal, but light blue is better than white on most people in teh daytime, and you're already outside of the bounds of very much formality with the color and design of the suits. But again if it were me, I'd probably just tell the guys to wear whatever they wanted in the white/off-white/light blue family.
Black suits and tuxes are exclusively for evening wear and no one should wear them for this reason alone.
