I was thrilled when we actually made the plunge and took our first tentative footsteps into Mens Warehouse. (Does anyone get their tuxes from anywhere else??) At first, we went on a Friday night about an hour before closing while we were just browsing around our local mall. The girl there was horrible. Horrible. The amount of service we received there was getting thrown a catelog of all the looks and asked what color my bridesmaid dresses are. Then she pulled down a swatch of vest colors and had one really rusty, cognac brown color and said, "this is what we have for brown." Uhm, really? The rest of my questions were answered in a similar fashion. It was very apparent that she did not care about taking care of us and we knew we would not be doing business with them. My friends, we are about 3.5 months out from the wedding and she told me I did not even need to worry about getting the guys fitted or anything until two weeeeeeeeeeks prior. Hi, procrastinator! I am not you! The thought gives me a panic attack.
Anyway...after that disappointing day, Josh and I had to amp ourselves up to go to a different Men's Warehouse in a much nicer mall in a newer section of town. All I can say is, thank God we did. Our consultant greeted us immediately and asked several questions about us as a couple, the kind of wedding we were having, when it would be, inside or out...you know...questions that made sense.
Once all the formalities were out of the way we sat down and looked at their little "Look Book". I basically sat back and told Josh to ask the questions and made sure to let him know that he got to choose what he was wearing. The salesman was very helpful and good at his job (aka: making Josh feel good about himself while giving good advice) At one point, Josh was leaning towards a 3-button thigh length jacket. The salesman told him, "because you're really built, man, I would recommend nothing more than a 2-button jacket. It will make you look shorter and rounder if you go longer." I was dying to tell him this, but the added emphasis of how Josh is in shape really sealed the deal there. (Good Job, Rich!) The salesman also informed us that a tux rental for the ring bearer had the same price tag as an adult tux. OUCH. But he recommended we just put little Antonio in a suit because he is small and no one will be able to tell the difference. That step will save us over $75 dollars!
We put down our group deposit, they gave us a group number so that the groomsmen can go in and get fitted at anytime. Can you say easy?? In about an hour we had finalized all the little details and Josh walked out of the store beaming. :)
We decided on a Calvin Klein 2-Button, notch lapel jacket, pleated pants (the salesman had to throw in the fact that they didn't crush anything *ahem* while you were seated), black round toe shoes, pewter cufflinks, an ivory shirt (decided because my dress is not white, we did not want it to look dirty in comparison to a bright white shirt) and a geometric print vest with a Euro tie. We switched up the colors a little to make Josh stand out, but here's an idea.
For the groomsmen:
For the Groom:
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