tux rentals

[karoia]

so the 3 groomsmen are all living out of town (1 - 3 hours away). My fiance has been contacting them all for the past year via email and it has been like pulling teeth concerning the tuxes. We finally got the measurements for one, and still waiting on the other two to tell us theirs (wedding is July 7, so I'm potentially freaking out at how slow

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[gradeafan]

I've frequently seen where the groom and groomsmen meet a few hours before the bachelor party for the tux fitting. Do you know if they are planning any such thing? They should all be in one place for that.

Otherwise, I have no help.

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[karoia]

He is not having a bachelor party, since they all live out of town. So I think they will just have to hope the tuxes fit when they get here.

[ckdutchess]

I'm just a bit annoyed. anyone else have similar problems where wedding party members were just hard to get a hold of/very slow to reply/didn't seem to take into consideration your wedding is a month away!?!

Yes, yes, and again, yes. For some reason, it seems to be worse on the men's side, and I obviously can't speak for them all, but I have a feeling that it stems from the fact that men, in general, don't see weddings as big a deal as women do. The groomsmen in my own were notoriously hard to track down, and our best man (my brother-in-law) was the only one late to our wedding. Luckily, it wasn't by much.

I'm sorry that you're dealing with this - it can be stressful. I don't really have any useful advice, either, except to say just have your fiance let them know that if they don't come down for the fitting (can it be done before the 5th?) then they're stuck wearing what they get.

I hope everything works out for you; I'm sure it will be fine. :)

[karoia]

I assume it can be done before the 5th, but we don't know if their schedules would allow for them to come up anytime before that or if they will. It seems like they aren't taking this seriously at all.

I have to keep hounding my fiance to get after them and I am sure I am driving him kinda nuts, but I had no idea it'd be this hard to get their measurements from them and straight answers about when they will even be coming up for the wedding.

[miraje]

You really don't want to just hope the tuxes fit. We picked ours up on the Friday before our Sunday wedding and had my husband try his on during that visit since the rest of the guys wouldn't be arriving until Saturday. Of all the tuxes, you would hope that the GROOM'S would fit correctly, but no. His pants were a full two sizes too small, and his shoes didn't fit. They had to order him new pants that would arrive the next day. They're closed Sundays, so I was panicking wondering what I would do if the other guys' stuff didn't fit...and they didn't. My dad's jacket had sleeves that were two different lengths (how the heck does that even happen??), and FIL's jacket was way too small. I think my dad's shoes were also the wrong size. Luckily for us the store just happened to have a few extra jackets and shoes in the back, so we got everything fixed except Dad's jacket

[revedeshautbois]

Our guys are all out of town, and this is what we're doing. (& the main reason that we decided to go through a chain at all.)

[ms_golightly86]

Do any of them have significant others? You might have better luck contacting their girlfriends or wives to help them get their measurements. I know when I was being invited to a wedding of a guy friend of mine, his fiance contacted me asking for address information because her husband-to-be could not remember for the life of him no matter how many times she asked. They will most likely better understand the urgency of the situation!

[anywhereanyone]

Even if everyone is on time and the fittings are done well in advance tux places are notorious for sending out the wrong size in something. Personally if anyone is wondering why guys aren't excited about this process, how exciting is the prospect of wearing rented clothing? I photograph 30 weddings a year on average, and at least half of them the men rent tuxedos. More often than not something is an obvious misfit for at least one person. For the amount of money people spend on these things I wish people would look more into just buying suits. Places like Macy's are always having awesome sales on suits and suit separates. Some of best ones I've seen are buy one get one free. Mens Wearhouse has sales like this too. If everyone goes in at the same time and splits the costs most of the time the guys can walk away with fitted suits they can keep for the same price or less than tuxedo rentals