What type of formal attire to indicate on the invitation?
Here are the details of the wedding: - The ceremony will start at 4pm @ Saint Patrick's Cathedral
- The reception is to be held at the Plaza Hotel (on the south side of central park, in the Grand Ballroom)
- The wedding is going to be in mid/late February, it's in Manhattan
- There are 250-300 guests expected to attend
-My wedding gown is decently ornate (eve of milday) and my bridesmaids are going to be in floor length black strapless satin gowns with opera gloves.
- Not trying to be tacky and talk about money, but the budget is at about 200k (just to give an idea of the formality and how big the event will be)
What should I put on the invitation as the dress code? I tried posting this on yahoo answers and was almost shot for even considering that a guest might possibly wear a tuxedo (a good portion of my friends own tuxedos already, and the majority of our guests are family anyway....we have big families).
White Tie? Black Tie? Black Tie Invited? I don't want people showing up in polos, khakis, etc. What is the right thing to do?
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Re: [Niki521] What type of formal to indicate on the invitation?
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Dear Niki,
$200,000 would make a decent down payment on a house. Just something to consider.
White tie is the most formal of attire, but even then the most formal a guest is typically expected to wear is a tux at night, as it is formal evening attire. If it were white tie, the men in the bridal would be wearing tails.
Your event is so close to the evening though, that guests could get away with wearing a tux and not appear odd.
I would set the dress code as black tie, because this would be the least confusing. If you stated white tie, you may get some arriving in tails even though this is not supposed to be the case for guests. This would also mean that some will wear suits, because this is what guests wear for formal daytime events.
What type of formal attire to indicate on the invitation?
