Penguin Suit

back in my collegiate days i might've started exhibiting signs of bridezilla when i offhandedly said "my future groom won't be wearing a white tuxedo on our wedding day!" after watching something on tv (probably million dollar weddings or some other wedding reality tv show i no longer watch these days) it's a personal choice really and my roommates just laughed at me and just figured i was being my crazy self... i mean what man would let me dictate what he would wear on my wedding day? if i loved him i would let him don the white penguin suit if he wanted to right? well i suppose that would be true...i mean my friend luke that got married last year wore a white tux on his wedding day and he looked a million bucks...

anyway fastfoward to september 2009 when i'm planning my wedding, chris and i walked into a downtown mens warehouse and started looking at our tux rental options...there were quite a few...

the look CHRIS picked... (i promise you i did not tell him he had to wear a black tuxedo...he could've worn a baby blue one with ruffles for all i cared...HE's wearing it after all right? if he wants to look like a 70's throwback who am i to stop him...)

two button classic calvin klein tuxedo with an ivory paisy vest and ivory striped tie...it will look good i promise...


for his groosmen we've got the same tuxedo with the rio tie and vest in midnight to match the girls:

we decided to go with ties and the full collared shirt...only because the wing tipped colllar shirt would show the neck band part of the ties and chris didn't like that at all...we also chose a solid microfiber shirt instead of the pintucked one (chris thought it was ruffly looking? pfft)

here's a visual representation of the difference

wing collared with "ruffles"
point collar without "ruffles"

then we got the shoes and the studs/cufflinks

black round toe shoes
silver and white studs and cufflinks

to be honest the color selection at Mens warehouse was NOT prime, but since we have the boys living in all different parts of the country we figured a big national chain might be our best bet...so we went with mens warehouse...the other bonus was that we got 1 tux rental for free with a minimum of 5 rentals...so yay for us for freebies!

all the boys need to do is walk into any mens warehouse to get measured with our party number and voila! the tuxes would be ready for pickup 2 days before the actual wedding date and they'll do any last minute tailoring needs, such as cuffs and such...not too bad...i'll give you more feedback AFTER the wedding about the service...but our intial visit was very good...

mens warehouse is seriously a soup to nuts kinda tux rental place, we get everything i listed above included within the rental and they throw in suspenders too...

Note: did you know that the only difference between a suit and tuxedo are the satin down the seams of the pants and the satin lapel of the jacket? huh...whoda thunk.. i didn't know thats for sure!