Wedding suits are ready!! All set for June 19th
I may have gone a little overboard on the wedding suits!
For the service, I will be wearing a three-piece morning suit with a new black fur Melusine top hat from Ascot-tophats.co.uk, white gloves from The Masonic Collection, shirts from Hawes & Curtis Jermyn Street and a chrome headcane from Medieval Replicas.
The first suit I made for my wedding was a three-piece dinner suit, which was ready last year. I based the style on a 1930s vintage Hector Powe that I have in my archive. It's cut in a black barrathea with summer kid mohair with a silk cord facing and a 16mm pattern braid on the side-seam.
Since I managed to finish both the video series and the morning coat well ahead of the June 19th deadline, in the final few weeks I decided to make an evening tail suit too.
Our first dance is the tango to _Let's Dance_ by David Bowie so I made the suit as a homage to the man himself.
The tailcoat is made from pure silk; a blue Moire silk facing from The Lining Company left over from a suit I made for Nick Jonas for the Met Gala Ball back in 2014.
After this photo was taken I decided to make a marcella white waistcoat, instead of wearing the black waistcoat and trousers from the dinner jacket.
Neither the trousers nor the waistcoat cloth from the morning suit are cut from formal wear cloth. I decided to save some money and buy my cloth from Tom Kelly, a retired Irish tailor who has an excellent collection of vintage cloth from the finest English mills. This way I could have something truly unique for my wedding day.
I will be following the set dress code of the British Empire. For my 1 pm wedding, I will wear my morning suit, at 6 pm for the call to dinner I will change into my evening tail suit and then after the first dance, I will change into my dinner suit around 8.30 pm.
The only thing I left out was the quilting on the inside. And I am glad I did as it was the hottest day of the year