Ivory bridal dress and white shirt tux?

ammino201

Hi ladies,

I am needing advise.  I am wearing ivory dress that is more towards a hint of gold.  My fiance picked out a white shirt for his tux.  I am hearing from other girls that when the bride wears ivory, fiance should do the same as if a guy wears white shrit, ivory dress looks dingy in pictures.  Is this true?  Anybody experince this? 

professorscience

I'm FAIRLY certain my H wore white and my dress was allover ivory lace.  It was definitely not an issue.

You could, also, explain this to your FI and have him switch.  It's never a problem with tux shops to make little changes like that.

fallbride1109

It doesn't matter.  I used a mix of ivory and white in my wedding and it never even occurred to me to think about it.  I'm not a fan of ivory shirts though anyway.

abwatts

I would think that the ivory shirt would look dingy.. but I would never thing your dress would!

ejheart

The lady at the tux place told me this too, but to me the "ivory" tux shirts that they had just looked so yellow. So, I went home and held a stark white dress shirt up to my dress just to see. I didn't think it made my dress look dingy at all, it just made it stand out more.

However, I think the "ivory" dress shirt might not look bad with your dress since you said it's more of a goldish tint. You could always buy one of their ivory dress shirts to bring it home and compare, then return it (if you really can't decide).

Jen6862

You could do a white shirt with an ivory vest. But, I would go with a white shirt whatever you do. I've seen the ivory shirts on wedding parties and I don't think they look as good.

angelsong21

I think the white shirt with the ivory dress is great.  Honestly, it adds some dimension to me and it looks more interesting together -- not in a bad way. The ivory at the tux stores for the vests and shirtys definitely looks "yellowy" where typically, an ivory wedding dress, doesn't look yellowy at all.

kel50785

When we set up our tux rental they said that if I am wearing an Ivory dress that it looks better to have Ivory shirts for the guys.  I didnt think it mattered either way but my FI went with ivory just to be sure.

AprilRoberson

I prefer to have my colors match, but that's just me.  I'm wearing a light gold dress, with an ivory overlay and my fiance will be wearing a candlelight-colored shirt.  This being said, I don't really think anyone is going to look at your dress and his shirt and be like "THEY DON'T MATCH!".  If it's important to you, then I would mention it to your fiance.  If not, I honestly don't think anyone is going to notice.

ammino201

Ok good deal. Thanks ladies. I will stick with the original plan. Men's warehouse ivory shirts were too yellow so that is a definite no go.