Wedding Clothes

So, my first proper post on my blog (I’m not counting the welcome message), and I’m afraid it is going to be about clothes! You may wish to skip this post.

While we fill time, waiting until we can actually book our wedding (more on that in a later post), we have been individually trying to find out what we can and choose what we will be wearing for our wedding. Poor Julie has the worst job, so many different styles of wedding dresses and she can’t show them to me for my opinion. My job is a little easier, just…

So, I’m going to wear a suit. That seems straight forward, and before we had decided on a cruise wedding, I had pretty much decided on the traditional morning tails. All I needed to know was Julie’s choice of colour scheme for my waistcoat and cravat. The wedding cruise kind of put a new light on things, traditional morning tails just wouldn’t look right for wandering around a ship. I would look more than a little out of place. So, the research starts, what other kind of suits are there, what kind of coats or jackets will look right? I can tell you, I now know more about wedding suits and jackets than I thought possible. However, I eventually, with Julie’s help, have finally settled on an Edward jacket.

It doesn’t end there. What, you thought it would? I had hoped to buy my suit rather than hire it (price permitting of course) but nowhere sells them, hire only. Which is a shame, I had hoped to wear the same suit for our party after we get back. But with hire periods of 10 days, I’m pretty much going to be picking up the suit the day before we set off and returning it as soon as we get back… I don’t want to think about what we’ll have to do if we can only get a cruise that’s longer than a week!

What is good news, my office is two doors down from a wedding hire shop! As soon as the weather improves I’ll be popping in to make my enquiries with them. It’ll certainly make collection of the suit easy for me.