# More wedding attire fun: wedding party informal, guests formal - you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390 "2013-08-05T14:24:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390/21 "2013-08-07T16:19:52Z")

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> [@even\_sven](#):
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> You are way overthinking this.

Well, yes.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390/22 "2013-08-09T21:08:12Z")

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This is why everybody should be in the SCA. That way, you can dress up in medieval formalwear and make everybody guess.

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390/23 "2013-08-09T23:00:16Z")

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Go in a suit…of plate mail 😉

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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390/24 "2013-08-10T01:26:41Z")

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I would enter wearing a classy suit and then maybe strategically shed an item or two if I must. In my experience, some people who have overly casual events are mostly just afraid of alienating their blue collar friends!

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wedding-attire-fun-wedding-party-informal-guests-formal-you/665390/26 "2017-05-02T18:13:20Z")

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Reported.

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