Shorts and no tie at a wedding?

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I would wear a suit seeing as it isn't particularly hot, nothing wrong with what you did previously just not really appropriate this time.

dLockers said:
Don't be a tool, it isn't your day. Leave your silly boat boy nonsense outfit on the hangar where it belongs.
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This is the kind of guy who never says anything the majority might disagree with
 
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FoxEye said:
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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Wearing <wedding suits> in <current year>.

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
 
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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Unless you want the bride to kill you, wear a suit :p

I don't necessarily agree with the traditions but appreciate that people spend a fortune on their wedding day including your meal so wearing a suit isn't much to ask and it looks nice in the pictures. Personally I don't see why weddings have to cost so much but some people want it and its their money so meh.
 
Lysander said:
Wearing <wedding suits> in <current year>.

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
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Explain, without using the word "tradition", why a suit and tie is the only acceptable dress for X. Or words that are akin to "custom", "tradition", "expected", etc.

That's literally the only reason.

I find it weird that nobody challenges this. Well, a few people do, but by far the majority just go along with it.

Despite everybody I know *hating* dressing up in a suit, because suits are some of the least comfortable attire known to man.

Why should you hate what you wear at an occasion like this?

Meh, humans.

e: Also women get to wear whatever they like, really, in any colour, yet the blokes have to wear a dark grey or black suit. Bonkers. Pure bonkers pure tradition.
 
Its bad enough looking back at old wedding photos when group shots have people who were fashionable at the time but their dress / hair look like a joke now

Imagine the bridge and groom when the 1000th person asks them who the moron thinking they were going boating and not to a wedding was.

I mean FFS what is the matter with people.
Just man up wear and suit

Unless of course the invite specifies fancy dress.
 
FoxEye said:
Explain, without using the word "tradition", why a suit and tie is the only acceptable dress for X. Or words that are akin to "custom", "tradition", "expected", etc.

That's literally the only reason.

I find it weird that nobody challenges this. Well, a few people do, but by far the majority just go along with it.

Despite everybody I know *hating* dressing up in a suit, because suits are some of the least comfortable attire known to man.

Why should you hate what you wear at an occasion like this?

Meh, humans.

e: Also women get to wear whatever they like, really, in any colour, yet the blokes have to wear a dark grey or black suit. Bonkers. Pure bonkers pure tradition.
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I couldn't agree more. I've checked the invite and there is no dress code on the invite (but there is a request for money rather than gifts and the married couple-to-be have kindly included their account number and sort code to facilitate this).

What about progress?

What about the last wedding, where literally ten + people came up to me saying they wish they were in shorts and no tie.
I wonder if any of them have considered ditching the suit at a wedding? I know it was a heatwave last time but necessity is the mother of invention. It certainly won't be cold next week.

What if I wanted to turn up dressed as a woman in a flowery dress, painted nails and full make up? Would I be shot down in flames for wanting to identify as a woman that day? If I were it would end up in the local news.

Get a grip folks, it's the 21st century, we're no longer walking around in a Tudor neck ruffe because someone decided to go against the norm.
 
Deffo a suit for two reasons

1. It’s their day, respect it by dressing appropriately

2. This weekend is forecasted for cloud and rain. You’ll look like a right lemon turning up dressed as Captain Ron
 
I think it's fine for 'general admission' guests to wear whatever, so long as it's smart and tidy.

Smart shorts would have been fine at my wedding.
 
bainbridge said:
I couldn't agree more. I've checked the invite and there is no dress code on the invite (but there is a request for money rather than gifts and the married couple-to-be have kindly included their account number and sort code to facilitate this).

What about progress?

What about the last wedding, where literally ten + people came up to me saying they wish they were in shorts and no tie.
I wonder if any of them have considered ditching the suit at a wedding? I know it was a heatwave last time but necessity is the mother of invention. It certainly won't be cold next week.

Get a grip folks, it's the 21st century, we're no longer walking around in a Tudor neck ruffe because someone decided to go against the norm.
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You said it was a heatwave then. So fair enough

19-20°C this weekend? Wear a suit or hire a tux with a kilt.
 
I’d wear a suit, but not a tie, most pointless thing in the world and I didn’t wear one when I got married.
 
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