Wedding wear?

I'll wear a nice dress shirt and slacks to the wake, but for the chapel/graveside service, definitely a suit. Always.

 

Steak has it right. Plus, if you are professional, you should expect this of yourself.

 

I went to a work-related funeral about 10 years ago and the boss, while he did at least wear a jacket, was dressed festively and brightly -- I recall a flourescent green shirt. He looked like he had just stepped off a golf course or the lido deck and thrown on a linen jacket, his greasy hair slicked back like Pat Riley's. I couldn't believe that asshole. For chrissakes, show some common sense and appear somewhat somber. I wore a dark gray suit.

 

Dark grey to a funeral instead of black? I'm willing to bet there was some really old man there looking at you the same way you were looking at Mr. Green.

 

Sorry, I do not own a black suit anymore. I gave it to an Amish dude.

 

Attending a "summer semiformal" wedding in Virginia next weekend. Somewhat of a vague term. Semiformal seems to suggest dark suit, but the summer tacked on might open things up a bit. Seersucker appropriate?

 

I went to an outdoor wedding (with an indoor reception) this summer. I went with a dress shirt, tie and slacks but no jacket. There were several seersucker suits and men with open collars but no one went with polo and khakis that I remember.

On another note, I find it fucking disgusting that some of you are taking offense to what someone else is wearing at someone else's wedding.

 

Seersucker should be fine.

 

I would ask. Some people now define semiformal as dressed down a bit. But traditionalists consider semiformal much more dressy than a business suit (morning jacket for day wedding, tux for evening). No way to know how the bride defines it unless you ask:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/Clothes%20Articles/cracking_the_dress_code.htm

 

Any planet on which a tux is "semiformal" I don't want to live.

 

Good thing you're just a few years short of middle age, then. I believe this is what semiformal always meant until maybe 20 years ago.