Shorts and no tie at a wedding?

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Wedding coming up this weekend. My partner's ex boss is getting married. I'm not part of the ceremony but will be there for both the ceremony and the reception.

The last wedding I went to was in summer 2019, during a heatwave. To avoid heatstroke I made a last minute decision to ditch the suit trousers, shirt and tie, and instead wore smart shorts, plain white t shirt, suit jacket and suede boating type shoes. It was lovely and comfortable, a number of people said I looked very dapper (unusual for me because I'm NOT fashionable at all) and I had sweaty people coming up to me in morning suits saying they'd do anything to be wearing what I was wearing.

I'm contemplating wearing similar attire on Saturday, but.. we'll be there all day, not just the reception but the ceremony too. It's quite a fancy venue and the married couple to be are devout Catholics, but, on the other hand, it's just my partner's ex boss getting married and I'm just going because my partner wants to go.

What shall I do?

Suited and booted or shorts and t shirt?
 
It's not supposed to be all that warm this weekend so I don't think you'll have the same excuse.

Depends on the couple but if you are there for the ceremony then I'd wear a suit.
 
Don't be a tool, it isn't your day. Leave your silly boat boy nonsense outfit on the hangar where it belongs.
 
Interesting to see people getting so hung up about this. As if what you're wearing is more important than your being there in the first place.

Within reason, I should say. It's all just silly tradition. I mean, who decided that a full dress suit is the only acceptable dress at a wedding? And why do we all follow it blindly? To keep suit makers in business?
 
Suited and booted, its a wedding which you have been invited to. Anything other then that at a wedding is under dressed to me :)

Later on you can loose the jacket, tie and roll up the sleeves :)
 
FoxEye said:
Interesting to see people getting so hung up about this. As if what you're wearing is more important than your being there in the first place.

Within reason, I should say. It's all just silly tradition. I mean, who decided that a full dress suit is the only acceptable dress at a wedding? And why do we all follow it blindly? To keep suit makers in business?
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Ah yes "big suit" trying to control the little man
 
dLockers said:
Ah yes "big suit" trying to control the little man
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Hah. You know what I mean.

There are lots of things that people do for literally no other reason than tradition. For me, I hate tradition. I'd rather do the exact opposite, because just following tradition for its own sake is incredibly daft.

And lots of institutions place so much emphasis on tradition (and uniformity), you'd think we were all robots.
 
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