Men's Formal Wear

Beach Weddings:

Wedding attire for a beach wedding can be "from suits to khakis" but a suit is still the most common choice, especially for the groom. Look for casual colors such as tan, taupe, light brown, and olive. We stock the smart looking tan suit, but we can also special order other colors. And seek out tropical-weight wool. This fabric looks and feels better in relaxed surf side settings. (Linen and cotton suits wrinkle badly, especially in humid climates, and are not ideal for weddings.)

Classic Black Tuxedo:

The Classic Black Tuxedo can be worn at any affair. Black dinner jacket and trousers with a satin stripe, ideal for ceremonies after six pm. Either turned-down or wing-collar with bow tie.

Today black is the most popular for the groomsmen, but new colors and accessories can add pizazz to your selection. Tie, cummerbund or vest can be the same color as the tuxedo or used as an accent color to match the bridesmaid's dress color.

  

The Cutaway:

Grey or black; jacket curves from the waist to about six inches above the knees. Striking contrast is created with a light or dark grey vest, wing-collar shirt and checked or striped ascot with pearl stick pin.

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Honeymoon Planning Tips

Honeymoon Planning Tips:  Read full story here:

Before You Leave Home:

Leave important non-travel papers, such as your social security and credit cards at home. Suspend your newspaper and mail delivery; or have a neighbor collect them for you. Before you head out the door, turn off or unplug any appliance that doesn't need to stay on.  Set your lights on timers, in various rooms. Make sure your house looks lived in.

While On Your Honeymoon:

Keep a travel journal. Memories fade over time.

Sun screen or bug spray.

Take lots of photographs.

Relax, have fun, and laugh allot!

If something goes wrong, write it down. Write down the dates and locations, as well as the extra expenses you incur, as well as the names and titles of the people you speak with trying to resolve the problem. Upon your return home, contact the customer service department and ask to be compensated.

Bridal Shows:

Bridal Shows or Wedding Expos have been around for decades. They can be fun and informative as long you go prepared with the right attitude.

What should I wear? Comfortable shoes! You'll be doing a lot of walking and standing so be dressed comfortably as well. Depending on the venue, it may either be too hot with all those people present, or too cold, with air-conditioning blowing right on you. Be prepared.

Should I bring a notebook or pad and pen? As you walk around the show, it's fairly certain you are going to see something you hadn't thought of or perhaps you'll want the name of the designer of a wedding gown during the fashion show. In this case, yes, bring something to write with because you may get home and have forgotten everything you wanted to remember!

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College Students & Great Idea

Every once and a while you see or read something that is such a great idea.
Why didn't I think of that? So simple, so easy, so cool. You have to pass it along.

Last month my daughter who is in FL, I am in TN, didn't have any $$ for dog
food. So I called her local WalMart to see if I could purchase dog food and she
could go pick it up.......easy enough, but WalMart would not do it. ?????

Fast forward: Today reading the paper, a story of 3 college kids come up with the
idea of MyDormFood.com funny, same as I was trying to do with dog food. Students
who are short on $$. Parents can purchase food/snacks mailed/delivered to their dorm room.

How simple is that? and what a GREAT IDEA. Pass this along to anyone with college
age kids, or pass it along to anyone who you think might benefit from it. Kids will thank you.

Do' & Don'ts of Posting Your Wedding on FaceBook.

Planning a wedding should be a joyous time — albeit a stressful time — leading up to an even more joyous event filled with family, friends and love.

Behold, the do’s and don’ts of posting about your wedding on Facebook (in chronological order, beginning with engagement).

Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

Ginger & Nick Hearn of Enfield were married in December on a televised ceremony for the Style Network’s reality show, “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?” "Weddings are stressful enough as it is, but imagine having your wedding televised".

That’s what happened when local residents Nick & Ginger Hearn got married on Saturday, Dec. 20, before cameras for the Style Network’s reality show, “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?”

The couple were planning a high-end wedding when Ginger’s neurological condition, known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, began to worsen and the medical bills started piling up. Full Story

WeddingManor.com and Scoops-Scoops.com donated all the scoops and tong for Ginger's candy buffet. She picked the 3 oz. stainless steel scoops and designer tongs to fit her colors and theme "Blue Ice". We were so happy to be a part of Nick & Ginger's wedding and Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

View more wedding pictures of Nick & Ginger at Michelle Wade Photography. We like to thank Michelle for the photos she provided to us as well.

Green Up Your Wedding

Did you know that an Ann Arbor couple 'greened' up their marriage and you simply could do it too?

The trend toward green weddings certainly isn't new, but experts say it has evolved to allow husbands and wifes to incorporate their unique personal preferences and still afford their special day.

Most people are interested in a green wedding and once they hear about what it entails, they end up going a different route. Our bride and groom "heroes" Engel and Dyer considered they wouldn't be able to keep everything perfectly green, but were going to try their hardest. And the most essential element was to make the day educative as well as fun for guests.

The couple also focused on little details they said make a big difference.

• The bride wore an heirloom - a vintage green dress that had been her great-grandmother's in the 1930's.
• Her ring was made with recycled gold and had a beryl stone instead of a diamond.
• Her makeup was certified organic.
• Guests were given local lavender buds - rather than sachets of rice - to throw in celebration.
• Tables were covered with local wildflowers and locally sourced foods.
• Leftovers and unused food were recycled (by sending to local farms) or reused.
• They found a generator which was solar powered and able to generate enough power to run the lights and the audio system they needed for the band.
  

For all their efforts, they still made some choices they knew weren't the most eco-friendly options.

While they served Michigan white wine beverages and a Michigan sparkling cider, they couldn't find a red from the state they liked. So they decided to have a red from the U.S. for that option. And they could've gone with Internet invites rather than printing and mailing invitations, but the bride said she felt paper invitations were important - on recycled paper, of course.

So you? What can You do to 'green up' your marriage day? While green weddings are becoming more famous, planning and pulling off the event is not as easy as one might think.

Sorting through claims of environmentally friendliness when shopping in today's marketplace is a big enough challenge for standard purchases, let alone for such an emotionally charged and personal event as a wedding.

The best way to reduce the impact of an event is to execute a life cycle analysis on different elements of the marriage. For instance, where is that food coming from, how much energy is expended to produce it, how does it get to your plate and where do the leftovers go?

While meat typically takes more energy to produce than fruits and vegetables, considering how far some vegetables and fruit need to travel might let them have a larger carbon footprint.

The best way to cut back on an event's carbon footprint is to cut back on the number of guests invited. Fewer guests mean fewer meals, fewer needs for centerpieces and other decor and fewer miles traveled to reach the ceremony.

About the writer - Lucy E. Thomason writes articles for the event planning courses blog, her personal hobby web log focused on recommendations to help people figure out how to organize a green event to spend less energy and reduce carbon footprints.