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I'm having navy bridesmaids dresses and black tuxes! Honestly, I think it's a great color scheme, and no - it doesn't look like a bruise (although that was my concern initially as well)!
I wrote a post last week about my rehearsal dinner dress, which is navy and black. You can see it here.
Our BM dresses were floor-length navy blue and our guys wore black tuxes with navy vests/ties. It really does look every elegant - here's a picture:
Sorry, I forgot to hit upload! (Also, I know the picture is really more of me and my husband; I haven't fully uploaded my digitals yet and this is the best one I have showing the dress/tux combo). Hope this help!
I think it depends on the shade of navy. I'm doing navy BM dresses as well, and our dresses are pretty dark and I was worried they would look like faded black against black tuxedos. So we went with charcoal grey tuxes and light blue vests.
Can you bring a BM dress with you into the tux shop? You can just hold it up against the black and see what you think.
My friend had us wear navy blue bm dresses and the guys wear black tuxes. Honestly, it looks GREAT in a well lit setting. It very classy, especially when her flowers were hot pink. If you look on the Anntaylor site in the Celebrations collections, our picture is actually up there somewhere - you can see for yourself! :)
Not to go against what seems to be the norm here, but I am one of those people who are very sensitive to what colors go together, and I recently went to a wedding where the ladies wore navy and the guys wore black tuxes with navy vests and ties and I really did not like it. My fiance was in the wedding and he didn't like it either and he never pays attention to that stuff. It didn't look right. I agree that it can be done tastefully, just like black and brown can, but I think you have to be very careful with fabrics/shades, etc. Since you weren't set on Navy to begin with, can you try for a different shade of blue all together? Something more royal.. or teal? Or a pale blue that isn't super pale?
I am havnig brown bridesmaid dresses and had the same concerns. We thought of black tuxes and brown vests, or mocha or champagne, but it just didn't do it for me. The guy at Mens Warehouse even tried to sell us on a brown tux, but we said absolutely not!
I think the main this is it's a formal occassion and a basic tux for a man is appropriate, as the girils will also be dressed formally. Thats what I'm telling myself anyway :) We decided on black vests and ties for the groomsman and the groom will wear a white vest and tie.
We did navy tea-length BM dresses and black tuxes and I thought it looked very understated and elegant!
I am hoping to do navy bm dresses and want to go with either gray or tan suits (we aren't going to do tuxes, i dont think.) I LOVE the navy/gray combination and I think it looks especially nice in warm weather as gray just seems "lighter" than black. Good luck!
I was leery of navy dresses with black tuxes, but reading these posts encoura
ged me. The combination was very beautiful. See photo. The accent color was pink, both pale and bright.
Not to discourage people from giving helpful opinions ..... but the OP's wedding was 2 years ago. She's about to have her two year anniversay tomorrow so I doubt she's worried about colors anymore! 
You can always go for dark grey tuxes instead of black. I think they go better than the black do...
@FutureKMM - Lots of times it's helpful to keep threads alive in case new people have the same question!
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It seems like there are always color posts, and its probably because some of us are more color challenged than others. :)
I'm getting married this May, and the colors are Navy Blue, Light Blue, Silver and Cream. I was looking at having the BMs wear Light Blue with Navy Accents, but recently one of them brought up that the light blue is not very flattering for "pastey white" people such as, well, all of my bridesmaids. Since I would not consider making them tan, I will consider changing the BM dress color to Navy. Its classy, its an evening wedding, so I don't think it would be too bad, but what color tuxes do you have the groomsmen wear?
Does it get too black and blue/bruise like? Is it too dark? I've seen a few other posts from people with this color scheme - what did you do for tuxes? Thanks!!!!