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If my dress is ivory, should my fiance and his men wear ivory shirts? The man at the store said DEFINITELY, or else my dress will look much darker when I stand next to him in bright white.

My MIL says absolutely not, it makes no difference, and instead, an ivory shirt for him will make HIM look dirty <--(I didn't make it up). She says he doesn't have a lot of white and it would be different if he had a white tux, however I think that having a bright white silky vest, a bright white shirt and a bright white tie will look pretty bright!

I told her I would ask around to see what other people would say, and she said to just let it go.

What are you doing/did you do? Is it really noticeable if the bride has an ivory dress and the groom has on white?

My dress is ivory and the groomspeople (one of whom is a woman) are wearing white shirts with their suits. I would have preferred ivory but my fiance had already told everyone white, so I just decided to let it go. I don't think it's going to be a huge deal.

AHAHAHH - we also recently had the men's store who is providing our groomsmens' wear, that ivory was the end all be all since my dress is ivory. We've since decided to be not nazi-ish about it because my man found a goreous white Eves Staint Laurent WHITE shirt that he wants to wear with his purchased tux. It looks goregous so I'm pro letting him go with it - it will be more relevant in the long run. I say buck what everyone is saying. We all look good!

Ok, thanks everyone, I appreciate it! I'm sort of leaning towards an ivory vest and tie with the white shirt...yah? no?

I know this is an old thread, but I went to Men's Warehouse last night and had the same issue.  Those shirts are definitely yellow!  The saleswoman kept trying to push it since I said my dress was ivory.  But like others said, it is a very light ivory, with silver detailings, so I do not think that it would look good with such a yellow-ivory.  Ugg, I was so disapointed with Men's Warehouse.  Don't they advertise that they can match any color from David's Bridal?  This is not the case at all.  So in my head I was thinking, we can go try After Hours Formal Wear and see what color vests & ties they have, but apparently they were bought by Men's Warehouse.  Anyway, if this is where we end up getting the tuxes, we are definitely going with white shirts.