Linsey Woolsey

Fall 2026

A Fall Wedding Guest Outfit, for Men

October. A barn with the doors open. Rice on the gravel.

Read the invitation first. If it says black tie, wear a dinner suit and stop there. Most fall weddings say semi-formal, or say nothing, and that means a jacket and tie: a navy or charcoal suit for a church in town, or an odd jacket in brown with grey trousers for a farm, a barn or a garden.

Rice on the Gravel

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A man in a buttoned brown check jacket, white oxford, burgundy tie, charcoal pleated trousers and brown bit loafers stands on the grass outside an old barn, its doors open on string lights.
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For the second kind, this is the outfit. A brown jacket, a white oxford, charcoal trousers, a burgundy tie and brown loafers. The colours belong to October and sit well beside the leaves. Wool or heavy cotton, because the vows may be outside and the evening will turn cold. Brown shoes rather than black, unless the suit is dark and the room is formal. A small watch on a leather strap, under the cuff.

Keep the jacket on for the ceremony and the tie on through the speeches. Both can come off after the first dance.

Skip a white or cream suit; that colour is the couple’s. Skip anything louder than the flowers, denim, and shoes you can’t stand in on wet grass. If it rains, a plain dark coat over the lot.