Shopping for guys: no less annoyingly easy with weddings

While I enjoy shopping, I find the fact that women's clothes have no consistent sizing or styling across brands or clothing types quite aggravating. When Vader hops online to order clothes, enters two numbers, and receives guaranteed-to-fit-properly stuff it makes me hate him, just a little bit, for how easy it is for him to shop.

I'm sure you're asking yourself what this has to do with weddings. Here it is:

I have been bothering Vader for weeks to pick out what his groomsfolk are wearing, and a few days ago he finally agreed. We had some dinner downtown and headed over to Men's Wearhouse, as I had some deals from buying my dress at David's Bridal. I expected that we would look at several suit options, some tux options, Vader would try different looks on and we would at best leave with an understanding of what everybody in the wedding party would be wearing come July.

Instead, we walked in and wandered in front of the "wedding rentals" display for about thirty seconds before a helpful employee asked if she could help. In five questions or less we learned that renting a tux would always be cheaper than buying a suit, that Vera Wang tuxes are the only black tuxes that look like 3-piece suits (and not super tool-y), and that in about half an hour we could get everything set up for the wedding. So we did!

We went through a list of questions that seemed important (what color vest, do they need shoes, ivory or white shirts), then progressed to things I had never thought of (what color studs & cuffs, what color pocket square). It was a quick process, we learned their pinks are terrible so we will find properly-colored pink ties elsewhere, and the rental group is now being set up. Here's what the guys will look like, plus vests and minus the bow ties (but with pink straight ties instead):

They probably won't look quite that intense in wedding pictures, but we hope they will look almost as dapper. And with no endless trying on of styles, worrying over price points, or waiting to be overtaken with tears we were done and we left and its done, aside from each guy being fitted. As it turns out, Say Yes to the Tux would be the world's quickest and most boring reality show ever!