We're doing a backyard wedding in August 2012. My FI has two boys who will be our "ring holders". I have a fairly simple wedding dress (ivory satin, sleek, spaghetti straps, kind of slinky - think 40s Hollywood) and FI will be wearing khakis, a white shirt and orange tie.
For the boys, I'm debating between khakis and shorts. If I did "dressier" khaki-like shorts, and some nice brown leather sandals I think this would be appropriate but I wanted another opinion. Since the wedding is in our yard, I really want the boys to be comfortable and be able to run around and play since we will have a lot of kids their age there (neighbors they play with regularly and a few of their other friends). I'm really afraid of this being some stuffy, formal event for them.
Does anyone think shorts are too casual, even for a backyard wedding?
TIA!