Laurel Manor’s rooms run from fifty guests to more than 1,200, and the fifty-seat end is a different wedding. Nobody is forty feet away. It’s one long dinner with everyone the two of you actually know, and you spend most of it in a chair, being looked at from across a table. A suit that’s perfect standing at the altar can fail at the soup.
What a chair does to a jacket
Sitting pulls the jacket open at the button and lifts the collar off the neck if the shoulders are tight. Unbutton it when you sit, always, and ask the consultant to fit the shoulders with you seated as well as standing. The collar that stays down when you lean forward for a toast is the one that fits.
What a chair does to trousers
The rise matters more than the hem at a seated wedding. Trousers that sit at the waist stay there through three courses; trousers that sit below it work down, and the shirt rides up above the belt every time you reach for a glass. Say “fifty guests, seated” and the consultant knows which trousers to pull.
The cloth, up close
At a table everyone can touch the cloth, so it should be one worth touching. Half-canvassed, $300 to $500, has the chest that keeps its shape in a chair, and Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, sets the hem to the shoes you’ll be sitting in.
Also for Livonia: The Father Who Married at Laurel Manor Walks Her In. More on wedding suits, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
