# Best suit for a day time wedding **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792 "2013-04-15T21:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/1 "2013-04-15T21:14:03Z")
My niece is getting married in Valparaiso, Ind. It’s a daytime wedding. What’s a good color suit for this? My options are a brown suit, light grey, dark grey, navy pinstrip and navy chalk stripe. I think the brown suit looks sharp with a lavender shirt and striped tie, but is that too informal for a wedding? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/2 "2013-04-15T21:22:48Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > My niece is getting married in Valparaiso, Ind. It’s a daytime wedding. What’s a good color suit for this? My options are a brown suit, light grey, dark grey, navy pinstrip and navy chalk stripe. I think the brown suit looks sharp with a lavender shirt and striped tie, but is that too informal for a wedding? Only if you are giving the bride away. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/3 "2013-04-15T21:51:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > My niece is getting married in Valparaiso, Ind. It’s a daytime wedding. What’s a good color suit for this? My options are a brown suit, light grey, dark grey, navy pinstrip and navy chalk stripe. I think the brown suit looks sharp with a lavender shirt and striped tie, but is that too informal for a wedding? I don’t think what you describe is too informal. I would go with the lightest color, personally. Would the same shirt and tie work with the light grey? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/4 "2013-04-15T22:26:01Z")
As a general rule you want to err on the side of formality, but no so much as to look like you’re upstaging the wedding party. [Morning dress](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_dress) is traditional for a formal daytime wedding, I’d never wear it unless I was actually in the wedding party or one of the grooms; never as an ordinary guest (unless it was a royal wedding). ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/5 "2013-04-15T22:33:33Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > My niece is getting married in Valparaiso, Ind. It’s a daytime wedding. What’s a good color suit for this? My options are a brown suit, light grey, dark grey, navy pinstrip and navy chalk stripe. I think the brown suit looks sharp with a lavender shirt and striped tie, but is that too informal for a wedding? The light grey is the safe choice. Daytime weddings are usually informal to some degree. Why not ask your brother what he’s wearing? As a rule you shouldn’t be _more_ formal than the father of the bride – if he’s wearing a hawaiian shirt, the suit’s probably contraindicated. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-suit-for-a-day-time-wedding/655792/6 "2013-04-16T01:10:51Z")
The person getting married is the daughter of my sister’s husband by his first marriage (she is my step niece in law). But yeah I’ll ask him.