Grooms in White? Here’s how!

After you get engaged, before you start buying the items you need and booking the wedding venue there’s so much to plan and consider. Apart from your wedding seating plan, wedding details, floral arrangements, and centerpieces for your wedding, you’ll need your wedding outfits as well. Not just that, you will also need your wedding outfits to be on-point. Your wedding day arrives only once in your lifetime, and you will need to put some thought into your wedding day outfit. Although the general notion of grooms and their outfits is generally colorful or plain black, it is not the case. Grooms look impressively stylish in white as well! If you want to pull off a white wedding suit and simultaneously match your wedding details and your partner’s wedding dress, let’s jump into how to pull off a white wedding suit:

What to Wear: The Style 

The first thing to note when you’re planning your groom’s white wedding suit is to know what you want to wear. There are multiple styles and trends that you should consider before settling on the outfit. Apart from the color, there’s much to do and think about. So, before you decide on the color, do some research and figure out what you want to wear. Think about the different styles you’d like, for example, do you want a slim-fit suit, modern fit suit, notch lapel, single-breasted suit, or peak lapel. If you’re unsure, you could look through different kinds of suits at a store, and decide on which one you’d like. 

Once you narrow down your choices, make sure to get the opinion of your partner. Wedding outfits for the big day are something that you and your partner, both, love. After all, it is just as big a day for you as it is for your partner. To get a fair opinion on the style of suit you’d choose as your wedding outfit, try out the styles you love and get your partner’s opinion. However, the choice of suit, in the end, will depend on the kind of wedding setting and vibe you two are looking for in your wedding. 

Don’t want your suit to clash with your partner’s? Visualization is the key! 

When it comes to weddings, synchronization is the key. Different elements, such as colors, the details of your wedding venue, the centerpieces, and the floral details, among other things should be kept in mind. Apart from that, one of the most important things that you need to keep in mind is your partner’s outfit. Nobody wants to look out of place next to their partner. Although there’s no hard and fast rule that the bride should be dressed in white. Whether your partner is dressing up in white or any other color, the groom’s outfit should complement it. 

To make sure that your groom’s outfit matches your partner’s wedding gown or suit, creating a pinboard for swatches will help. To improve your choices, make use of the pinboard to pin swatches of different colors. As it is not necessary for you to wear an all-white wedding suit, you can have accents and additions to your suit by comparing different colors with the elements of your wedding, as well as your partner’s outfit. Also, you could try adding some pictures of the agreed-on elements and your partner’s planned outfit will help the process. Adding pictures to the pinboard with the swatches of colors you want to wear will take away the guessing game, and will help you make a clear-headed decision. 

If you’re going for an all-white groom’s wedding suit, even then a pinboard will help you out. As you will put the swatch of your all-white suit on the board, it will make deciding whether it goes well with the other elements or not easy. 

Is it an all-white wedding suit that you want? Consider different tones of white! 

Although some grooms like to add a blast of colors to their wedding suit, it is not uncommon for grooms to wear all-white to their wedding. An all-white suit, to be honest, looks elegant and is just as stylish as any other color choice. However, choosing the right shade for your wedding suit could prove to be difficult if you’re making use of sharp white. Instead, look for softer white shades. See, if you’re matching your white wedding suit to your partner’s wedding gown, you should keep in mind that brides usually wear ivory instead of stark white. If you choose a wedding suit in stark white, your suit will end up looking yellow! 

If your heart is set on a white suit for your wedding day, you should consider looking into ivory. Also, for an all-white suit, the shirt would probably be white as well. You can use a different shade of white to add some variation to your wedding suit. What’s more, you can even choose to complement white shades for your tie or bow, and your trousers. 

A Vest or No Vest? Make your choice! 

Grooms in white wedding outfits look handsome, that’s a fact. However, choosing the different elements of your suit could be a little difficult. Before you move on to consider if you want a tie or a bow tie, you should figure out a vest or no vest for your wedding outfits. There are some standard rules to wearing a vest with a suit, which you should keep in mind before making a choice. The first thing to consider is if a vest will look good with your chosen style of suit. If you want to wear a vest with your wedding suit, all you need to do is find the vest that matches the fabric of your jacket. Apart from that, a vest should be fit and snug, ill-fitted vests don’t make for a good look. If you can find a vest that fits you perfectly, without being too taut or loose, then go for it. If you don’t find the right fit, let the vest go and stick to your two-piece wedding suit. And if a vest is an absolute must for your wedding day attire, then instead of searching and trying to mix-and-match a vest, go for three-piece suits. A wedding three-piece suit will have a matching vest, eliminating the need to look for a vest that goes well with your suit. 

For styling options, you can have variations in colors for your vest and tie, or bow tie. To choose the color of your vest, you could either go with any one of the many different shades of white or choose to contrast your color scheme with a different color that pops out of your white suit. One of the best ideas to match your vest’s color to your wedding’s theme is to choose a color from your wedding color scheme. This will help you to coordinate your colors, and make you look right at home with your wedding decor and details. Apart from this, for example, if your wedding has greenery and floral details to the venue, you should consider looking for a tropical-style vest, it will add more color and vibrancy to your outfit. 

Want a stylish look? Choose your accessories carefully! 

To add charm and style to your wedding outfit, apart from the perfect wedding suit, you will also need some accessories to go with it. The best way to stay up with the latest trends is to first understand what you like, and then go through the trends to make a choice. First things first, when you choose your jacket, make sure you have the right idea for its pattern, like do you want oversized checks or micro-prints? Once you know that, you can choose a stylish pocket square, satin bow tie, or floral boutonniere to add charming accents to your outfit. Last but not least, when it comes to accessories, make sure you have the right cuff links. When you choose cufflinks, make sure that they match your outfit’s colors and style. If you’re not sure of the kind of styles you’d like or will go well with your outfit, then you should ask your partner’s opinion. Apart from these accessories, you can even go with a cooler vibe with other accessories like suspenders, classy timepieces, or the right sunglasses or glasses. These accessories, however, should be coordinated with the colors of your wedding color scheme.

Bonus Idea 1: Coordinating Contrasting with your Groomsmen 

We’re used to coordinating bride and groom wedding outfits, but are you ready to vibe with your boys on your wedding day as well? You can come up with an elaborate plan to coordinate your suit’s color scheme with your groomsmen’s suit colors. For example, you can have your groomsmen’s jacket in the same color as your vest’s colors! Or you could have your groomsmen wear jackets in the color of your chosen trousers. Another cool way to improve your wedding suit’s colors with your boys is to have contrasting ties or bow ties. For example, you could wear a bow tie, and your groomsmen could have the same colored ties!  If you want to take your co-ord-game up a notch, how about choosing similar colors for groomsmen and bridesmaids as the accents of your wedding suit! 

Bonus Idea 2: Ring Bearer and Groom in the Same Shade! 

Another interesting way to use white suits in your wedding is to coordinate them with your ring bearer’s attire. You can choose a similar-looking suit for your ring bearer, from the lapel style to the shade of white you use, they can copy your entire look. There’s nothing better than a cute ring bearer walking down the aisle dressed in white. But it becomes even better when the ring bearer’s outfit is similar to the groom’s outfit!

Bonus Idea 3: Don’t Be Afraid to Use More Colors!

The last idea is to be dressed stylishly at your wedding, how about making use of pop colors! Depending on the theme of your wedding, if you're going for a beach wedding or an indoor winter wedding, you’ll need some colors to add a cool yet elegant touch to your wedding day’s outfit. That being said, you can go with the trending pastel colors, these go well with white, and every shade of white you can choose! Or you could go with stark or super bright colors like yellow, blue, or teal, the colors that stand out and complement the season colors or the theme of your wedding. For example, if you’re throwing a summer beach wedding, yellow, orange, or green would be good choices to add accents to your white suit. You could have these pop colors as an option for the vest, pocket square, tie, or the lapel of the jacket. 

Although the generally accepted notion is that grooms don’t put a lot of thought into their appearance for the day, we can be sure that it’s not the case. While many grooms may not give much thought to their outfits, there are plenty who would love to look their best for their soulmate!  And as for the grooms who don’t want to put too much thought into their wedding attire, they rely heavily on their partners to help them choose the best wedding suit that would go well with the ambiance and the setting of the wedding. 

Since wedding planning can be difficult and long, you will need all the help you can get. With the ideas above, the groom will be able to pull off a white wedding suit, or an all-white wedding suit without a hitch! You can use these ideas as the starting point for your wedding outfit planning, and make changes as per your likes and dislikes. Apart from this, it always helps to have the wedding outfits picked out, coordinated, and ready for your day. This helps you to maximize your efforts since you already have a big piece of your wedding planned and ready to go, making it easier for you to choose the color of napkins, decor, and centerpieces!