tuxes

PattySmith101 · August 2012

Yeah the boys are finally going for tuxes tonight! the question is did you go with your guys or did you let your fi pick out the tuxes with his guys?

problem is fi has absolutly NO fashion sence! i mean none. and i am a little afraid of what he will pick! lol i wanna say yeah go ahead but that could be disaterous! i dont want to be seem controlling < which i really am not /> he dosent care if i go or not .what would you do?

also what did you do for vest that match the girls?other? we have wine dresses and champagne shoes, i am afraid the red wouldnt match. would it look strange if the guys were in champagne? i have no ides what to do here either. so fi will have absolutly no clue ! lol

cbear215 · August 2012

i had this same dilemma as FI and his guys are going this afternoon too!! i was so nervous about letting them go on their own and ultimately decided to go with them (FI also said he didn't care). I figured it might be ok if they went on their own but it might be stressful for FI to have to try and make decisions and he might really want you there once they get there. I don't think it'll hurt if you go, if FI doesn't care. I know a lot of people went with their FI first to pick out tuxes.
Do you have a fabric swatch of the girls' dresses? I would bring that with you to see if they have a color that matches. Good luck and have fun!!

DanaOcNy · August 2012

I went with FI back in April, I did not trust what he would have picked out on his own LOL! Luckily we liked the exact tux so there was no issues :-)

As for colors I have my girls in three different color dresses from Davids Bridal so we the vest colors from Mens Warehouse match exactly. I think if you bring a awatch with you you could hopefully find the right wine color.

Good Luck!

amyelise25 · August 2012

I let my FI go alone, but I know that he has good taste. He hasn't ordered it yet, but he has shown me what he is going to order from Men's Warehouse and it looks nice. To make life easier and to look more formal we are just sticking with black vests all around except for FI, he gets and ivory vest.

pockysquirrel · August 2012

I don't think having the girls in wine and the guys in champagne would look odd at all. When FI's brother got married, their colors were lavender and green; the BM dresses were lavender and the guys' vests were green. It looked really nice because it wasn't so matchy, plus the guys weren't complaining about having to wear a girly color, LOL. I'd say go for it, and then put your FI in a white or ivory vest, whatever matches your dress, so he stands out.

[Deleted User] · August 2012

I went with just FI awhile back (our GM are all spread out over different states so it was difficult to schedule a time for everyone to get together. They just needed to send us their measurements - due Monday actually (2 month mark! Yay!). Luckily we're only waiting on 3 guys and 2 of them have their measurements, just don't have them to us yet.)

What we thought we wanted wasn't what we ended up liking at all. And FI is a jeans and t-shirt guy so there's no way he felt comfortable picking out his own tux. I thought I wanted charcoal gray tuxes with the groomsmen in navy (bridesmaids already ordered navy dresses at thsi point.) I also thought I wanted FI in ivory. The navy didn't look at good with the charcoal gray tux so we decided to go with black tuxes. Then we had FI try on an ivory vest. HATED IT. We ended up with FI in a maroon vest and tie (our 2nd color), and the groomsmen in navy vests and ties (all in black tuxes). It was actually FI's idea to try on the maroon vest since we started running out of options. I wasn't sure I'd like it, but I ended up thinking it looks great! My biggest concern picking out tuxes was that I didn't want FI to blend in too much with the groomsmen. He is the groom after all.

It was also nice because we could look at the options and decide what would look good on our dads and the ushers once we had the groom and groomsmens tuxes picked out.

mrshall1027 · August 2012

FI and I went together and I pretty much picked everything but made sure that he liked it too. Most of the groomsmen are oot so we just told them to go get measured by a certain date. I think you should go if your FI doesn't mind, especially if he doesn't have the eye for fashion (most guys don't!). He may end up getting confused and overwhelmed by all the choices.

achiduck · August 2012

I went with FI since all the GMs are OOT. He wanted to wear the ivory dinner jacket so I helped him pick out all the bits and pieces that normally go with it and we had already decided on the same look for the GMs just with a black jacket.

My BMs are wearing black so there's not much to worry about matching.

ivedonethisb4 · August 2012

FI is not stranger to a tux. He has a large family and has been in several weddings over the past 5 years. Me being me and him being him I didn't trust him to go alone. We went together, just us the first time to pick them out. Fi went later with most of the guys at one time to get measured. Were just waiting on one and deadline is Aug 14. So he better get his butt in gear or we'll only have one Usher. Anyway...once we got there I just basically let FI pick what he wanted. I was just there to make sure he didn't try to pick a purple pimp suit or red and black which is GA colors but not OUR colors or something of that nature haha. He went with a regular 2 button tux and horizon vests all around. Even him. He didn't want to "stand" out. Me or the salesperson didn't quite get that one. He said he wants to wear blue. We tried silver, white, black...no he wants to wear blue. Oooookkkkkk! Blue it is!!! I guess he got that from his cousins recent wedding they wore black on black all around.

BrittneyRN · August 2012

FI is always very concerned about looking his best, so I definitely could have trusted him to go alone. That being said, he made me go with him because he likes me to pick out his clothes, especially for our wedding. He's in all black though tux, vest, shirt and tie, so it wouldn't have been too hard!

LDubHawksFan · August 2012

I went with FI to choose our rental place. When there we figured out what tux and vests they would go with.

huskerfan246 · August 2012

FI already had his mind made up what he wanted a while back so I went with him to the Tux shop last weekend and let him do everything he needed to. Its a lot easier when there is only 3 tuxes to worry about, the groom, bm, and brides dad.

irishangieb · August 2012

We went with Gray tuxes, so I let him go alone, knowing that there were only two options and I knew he would prefer one to the other (the one being the one that I liked). Seeing that, I sound awful, but either way.
We actually decided to go NO vests because they didnt have a vest that matched the tux and I didnt want to do a navy vest, I felt it would've looked kinda prom-ish with the gray tux, so they're just doing a plain navy tie.
Should be pretty good looking, i'm excited. Good luck with your tux shopping today!

aimee58 · August 2012

I went with FI beacuse all the guys have different work schedules and couldn't care less what the tuxes look like.

Our girls are wearing brown. The guys' tuxes are brown and the vests are burnt orange to match the girls' shoes.

I think champagne vests and wine dresses would be very nice together

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