Groom attire gets a fraction of the planning time the wedding dress gets, and roughly the same amount of camera time. That’s the whole problem in one line. In our experience the decisions land late, in a rental shop, under lighting nobody looks good in, next to a guy with a tape measure and strong […]
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A groom wears his tuxedo once, gets photographed in it from every angle for eight hours, and then hands it back to a shop. That’s a lot of permanent evidence resting on one afternoon at a fitting. The choices are smaller than they look, and every one of them shows up in the pictures. Shawl […]
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The groom’s suit gets decided late, usually after the dress, the venue and the flowers are locked. Then it shows up in roughly half the photos. Color, cut, two pieces or three, how far it should sit from what the groomsmen are wearing. Those are genuine decisions, and black off a rental rack is only […]
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The default groomsmen outfit is a rented black tux in whatever size is closest, collected on the Thursday and returned on the Monday. There’s nothing wrong with it. It also means the wedding party photos could belong to just about anybody’s wedding. The real decisions are smaller than they look. How closely the guys match […]
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The mother of the groom ends up in more photographs than almost anyone who isn’t wearing white. Getting ready. Family portraits. The walk up the aisle. That dance where the whole room stops to watch. So you want something that photographs well and that you can hug people in for nine hours straight. The venue […]
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Rehearsal dinner hair has one job that nobody tells you about: it has to look good tonight and then get out of the way by tomorrow morning. Those are two different jobs, and most of the advice floating around only covers the first one. So here are the styles that hold through a long dinner […]
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Groom rehearsal dinner outfits live in a strange gap. Dressier than dinner with friends, a full notch below whatever’s hanging in the garment bag for tomorrow. That gap is where most guys get stuck. Too formal and the rehearsal photos read like a rough draft of the wedding ones. Too casual and you’re hosting in […]
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With a wedding guest book quilt, you swap the leather-bound book for fabric squares and a signing table people actually stop at. Same job. Wildly different afterlife. One version stays folded over the back of your couch for the next decade, and the other one, in our experience, gets opened once and then sits in […]
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Buying a mother of the groom gift means threading a very specific needle: real gratitude on one side, a satin sash with MOG across it in glitter vinyl on the other. You want her to feel genuinely thanked, and you want to do it without buying something she will quietly rehome to the back of […]
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