We are going to DR over xmas. Do you want me to say hi to him? 
I know there have to be some husbands or guys who heed clothes too. My husband is a very hard to fit slim, European cut size guy. He decided he needed a new suit for DDs wedding. He went to Men’s Warehouse. I know they get a bad review from some folks…but he went to one in a suburban location and they were terrific.
He got a Calvin Klein extra slim cut suit. It needed to have the sleeves and pants shortened, and even with the very slim cut, the pants needed to be taken in a little.
I have to say…the suit is terrific, a medium grey light weight wool. Fits perfectly. Alterations were perfect. The included a shirt and tie if his choosing…and he got a very nice extra slim cut white shirt, also Calvin Klein, and a nice silk tie.
He has already worn this suit to two weddings.
Total cost including alterations, suit, shirt and tie was $450…which we thought was great…especially considering they had the extra slim cut which is usually more costly.
We have been very pleased with Men’s Wearhouse. My guys are 6’4 and 6’5. I really like how they will put together several shirts and ties to have different looks. The alterations have all been perfect. S1 can fit into his suit 10 years later and actually wears it!
I miss Syms. Used to get the DS’s suits there and then pass them down to friends for their sons. Got DS’s suit from Jos A Bank because (a) its much closer than the closest Mens Wearhouse and (b) I disliked how the BOD of MW ousted George Zimmer when George wanted to give more of the profits back to the employees. George’s sister is a personal friend, and described the Board’s actions. Would prefer not to give them our $.
SIL’s dad negotiated a great price for the men’s suits from Jos A Banks. We purchased through the one deal and then had local store do the alterations. H said it is the best fitting suit he has ever had. SIL bought both his dad and H their ties, and I believe also bought ties for the other guys.
We like JosABanks when they have sales, but they don’t carry many extra slim size anything. That’s why my husband went elsewhere. If he hadn’t found anything there, he would have headed to Nordstrom where they also carry extra slim European cut suits…but really…he probably would have paid quadruple the price, for a suit he only coincidentally will wear three times this year to weddings.
Typo above— got DH’s suit from Jos A Banks. Second one we got from there. They always seem to have sales.
3 months to the big day! Invitations are being printed and assembled this week.
Everything is booked- but I am thinking now is the time to start planning all the fun details
A little less than 2 months for us. Invitations went out last week. So far a few have picked the vegetarian option. I guess they need to know who exactly it is that wants the vegetarian option (they just indicated “1”) so we have had to make a couple of calls.
The bachelorette party is in a couple of weeks. It is at a Spa and both MOG(me) and MOB are attending.
I attended a fancy 60th anniversary party last weekend. I loved my dress. It would make a great MOB/MOG dress, but not for me because it is navy and the bridal party is wearing navy (I was told specifically to avoid navy).
https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/eliza-j-a-line-dress-regular-petite/4630222?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&color=navy
@tx5athome our venue required some kind of seating name card so that the servers would know who was eating what meal. We had four options. Once we received all of the RSVPs, we had a spreadsheet to fill out which listed each table, each person seated at that table, and what their dinner choice was. The waitstaff had these.
This sheet then included the totals for all the meal choices. It also included things like special requests or allergies.
Tx5, I like that dress. Just order it in the green/blue.
D’s wedding was last weekend and I am just now coming up for air after entertaining the out of town guests with sightseeing trips. Everything went very well. The day was the hottest of the week but bearable. Thank goodness I selected a lightweight dress without heavy lace or beading! All the planning really paid off when the whole day went very smoothly.
(The only hiccup was the day I picked up the wedding dress from the alterations department of the bridal shop. They couldn’t find it at first! Finally, after half an hour, they found it).
D looked more beautiful than I have ever seen her. Can’t wait for the professional photographs!
Congratulations, @TatinG! How wonderful when everything goes according to plan. Weather today in the NY area is gorgeous for weddings.
Congrats @TatinG
Looking forward to hearing the details when you come up for air!
@TatinG: That must have been quite a half hour. I’m sure you were freaking out.
We are on the flip side of the wedding now. This week, I dropped off the wedding dress to be cleaned. It just needed to be done. DDs dress was not covered with bling (which adds to the cost) and we elected to have it NOT preserved which costs at least double of getting it hung. Still…it was $350 for a very simple dress.
If you think the dress will ever be worn again by anyone…or you might sell it…you really do need to get it cleaned.
Oh…and I did shop around for costs…but this was just a tad more expensive than another place. But the other place was way more inconvenient.
Interesting you mentioned that @thumper1. Somehow my DIL’s wedding dress ended up in a closet in our house and it still hasn’t been cleaned, 9 months after the wedding. She is tiny, and it was a runway sample purchased from a vendor that donates the proceeds of the dresses, so her plan may be for it to end up in a dress-up box for someone in her life, but I think she should have had it cleaned. My dress was cleaned, and per my mother’s wishes,and hung in a muslin bag, not preserved in one of those wedding dress boxes. It’s in pretty good shape 36 years later, but the style is so dated that unless my D wants to repurpose the fabric I can’t imagine anyone wanting to wear it. Do most people have the dresses preserved, whatever that actually means?
I really don’t know what D1 is going to do with her dress. It is so fitted to her body that I am not sure if anyone would be able to wear it. I don’t think she would ever wear it again (let’s hope not).
Recently when we were cleaning up my mother’s house for move we found my sister-in-law’s wedding, perfectly cleaned and preserved. We asked her what she wanted to do with the dress. She said toss it.
Lace can yellow over time. It’s why they “preserve,” which I thought includes air tight packaging.
You can use a portion of a wedding dress later. Friend had christening gowns made for each child. If it’s a slim dress, maybe just an applique or two.
It’s just so ymmv.
We’ve had our 3 daughters’ gowns cleaned/preserved at what is supposedly THE place around here. How would I know, though? Each gown is in an enormous box, without the see-through cellophane window on top. The instructions say to store the box in a dry, dark environment, so right now the first two gowns are taking up all the floor space in our biggest closet.
Since all 3 boxes are indentical, I should have indicated whose was whose before putting those first two boxes in the closet …