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my fiance is in the Marine corp and he will be wearing his dress blues. I took a look at the air force uniform and I think personally it would be best if the other guys wore navy blue or dark blue suits as for your girls...what about a canery yellow? For me I'm using Davids Bridal Marine blue for the girls dresses with yellow and white accents.
My husband is in the Marine Corps and he wore his dress blues during the ceremony. We had both the girls and guys in black with pink accent and I think it worked out wonderfully. I don't necessarily think that it all has to match as long as there isn't SO many colors that makes it look uncoordinated.
The advice I always hear for military weddings is don't worry too much about matching to uniforms - if you don't happen to like colors that go perfectly with the uniforms, don't worry about it! I think short of things clashing, you're fine. My fiance will be in Army dress blues for our wedding, as will all but one of the four groomsmen. I was thinking his brother, the civilian of the bunch, would just wear black. My bridesmaids will be wearing a dark red/almost burgundy. I don't know if this helps, but I guess I just wanted to say you shouldn't get too caught up in the colors of the uniforms, most things will look great!
Thanks ladies that really helped!
Cheyenne22: I love that marine color at davids bridal, sounds like your going to have a nice wedding, I think I'm going to do the canary yellow you suggested, since my favorite color is yellow anyways :)
I agree with K610, my FH is wearing his Army dress greens and my his BM and my MOH (only two standing with us) will wear matching. She is going to wear a light pink dress and he will coordinate with light pink tie and vest along with a black suit.
I'm in a similar situation (one of my FI's groomsmen is not in the Air Force and the other two are)and I think this is what I've decided on:
My colors are pink and brown so I think I'll have my ladies wear either pink dresses with brown accents (or vice versa), and the men will wear brown suits. I thought about having the two in the AF wear their dress blues and just have the nonAF guy wear a navy suite, but it was giving me too much of a headache. My FI will be wearing his Mess Dress.
(I know this is your post, but I have a question about my situation!) Do you think it's tacky to ask the two AF groomsmen NOT to wear their dress blues?
I wouldn't worry about being super "matchy" with a military wedding. My fiance is in the Navy and will be wearing white....I won't be the only one!......as will two of his three groomsmen. His brother however is in the Army. No matching for us! My girls are all wearing black cocktail dresses.
jesstagirl:I don't think it would be bad if you asked them not to wear their blues. I asked my FI what he thought he was like they will probably by happy because they aren't comforable! But really he's been in a few weddings and some he's wore his blues and some just a regualar tux. By the way your colors seem really cute, my cousin just got married and her groomsmen wore chocolate brown tuxs and the bridesmaids wore a orangish red, it looked really nice!
I was in the same situation. My grooms, the best man, and 1 of the groomsmen were in their dress whites, and the remaining 3 groomsmen were civilians. The military guys were in their dress whites and we put the civis in tan suits. I wrote out a blog post with the entire explanation about why and where etc here:
http://barefootstargazer.blogspot.com/2008/10/three-men-and-uniform-dressing-boys.html
It turned out perfect!!
I am also having trouble with colors. My fiance is a Navy Lt. and is wearing his dress white uniform. This is a second marriage for both him and I and my 13 year old daughter will be standing up with us. I've been reading that it should be red or yellow, white and navy. We're hoping to have a date sometime this June or so. I don't know what to do about the colors.
LoriDee,
My FI and I are both Navy, well were, I just got out. But with dress whites I would not worry too much, they look AWESOME and anything will look appropriate next to it. to be honest regardles of the color of a military uniform I would not worry about something matching it to much. Its a military uniform and SHOULD stand out for many reasons. But especially with him wearing his dress whites you could really do anything!
Originally my FI was going to be wearing his Army dress blues. At that time, I had decided to have the groomsmen wear light gray and the girls wear a soft pink. The overall color scheme would have been light gray, pink, ivory, a soft green and silver accents. However after I decided all of that, he decided he doesn't want to wear the dress blues, so we've changed everything altogether !
my husband (navy) wore his whites, as did another groomsman. my 3 brothers wore army dress blues. the other groomsmen wore navy suits (i told them any black or navy suit would do) with blue ties we gave them. the bridesmaids wore navy jcrew dresses. it looked awesome and i think the mixed uniforms/suits made it even better!
well my soon to be hubby is in the army and he is wearing hi dress blues...2 of his 5 grooms man are also in the army and was going to wear their class A's but i had to put a stop to that because there would be navy, green and black. well now my soon to be is wearing his dress bues and everyone else in all black tux with white vest and tie and my girls with be in black dresses with light pink sashes...my point is regardless of what the bride and groom wear you can still make it look pretty...the bride and groom are suppose to stand out anyways...
I am having somewhat of the same problem. My fiance is in the army and he is wearing his dress blues. My bridesmaids are wear Davids Bridal Horizen blue. But i am not sure what my grooms men should wear, i was thinking white but i am not sure. Your idea sounds like it would look nice.
@NicoleMoses:Black could still work.
Mine is a Marine, non military groomsmen are wearing black tuxes with blue vests similar to the blue in his pants, my ladies are wearing a wine red.
I'm doing the very usual red/white/blue. Except I guess it's more red/blue/gold.
You could put your men in black tuxes with the matching horizon blue vests and ties/bow ties. (They do that at DB, right?)
I don't think you have to worry about matching. My cousin got married a few months ago, he and his best man were in Army dress blues, and the other groomsmen were in standard black tuxes. The bridesmaids wore dark silver/gray dresses with fushia shoes and jewelry. Nothing looked like it clashed, it just looked like my cousin and his best man were in military apparel.
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Hi all, just another similar question to some of those our there trying to figure out colors for their military wedding! I'm getting married on June 5, 2010. My FI is in the air force and he will be wearing his uniform, along with his brother and one of his friends. But..he has 3 non-military guys in the wedding..therefor they don't have air force blues! What are they suppose to wear? Navy? Or is that too matchy-matchy? But then I figured black wouldnt go really either. And what about the bridemaids dresses, would navy and navy go? I seen another girl on her suggested olive and I thought that would be very nice. Any suggestions would be of great help!! Thank you so much, sorry it was so much to read!