Summer Wedding
Certainly avoid black and other dark colors. You will also want to avoid wool and other heavy fabrics typically worn in fall and winter.

Choose a lighter colored suit in cotton, linen or seersucker. Many designers continue to come out with suits in fabrics other than wool. Also, a cotton or linen suit with a bit of stretch added with help retain its shape and give it a slightly more polished look. If it is an evening wedding, black would be acceptable, but go for cotton as I have mentioned.

Winter Wedding
Obviously dark colors are appropriate as well as wool. Suits and blazers with nice trousers, or perhaps a cashmere v-neck sweater with a shirt and tie underneath would all be nice choices. A dress shirt, tie and dress pants are acceptable on their own if that’s all you have, but dress them up with a sweater or blazer if you can.

Evening Wedding
A dark suit is always appropriate and a tuxedo is the only thing to wear if you know it is a formal affair, but remember tuxedos are not to be worn before 5:00pm. If you know it will casual or semi-formal, you can always wear a blazer and slacks with a tie, but try not to look like you’ve just come from the office. Opt for a tie, shirt or both that look more stylish than your usual office attire.

To Be Avoided at All Costs (and I have had the misfortune of witnessing all of the following first hand)

• Too casual of a pant such as cargo pants or worse, jeans
• Birkenstocks
• Out-dressing the wedding party
• Un-ironed clothes and unpolished shoes
• Wild colors and prints

Disclaimer
The above rules don’t exactly apply if you have been invited to a beach, Vegas, or some other out-of-the-ordinary wedding. In those cases, unless otherwise directed by the wedding party, anything goes. Yikes!

StyleScoop reports on bride-to-be Jenna Bush, who is set to wed this coming May. In preparation for the big day, Women’s Wear Daily asked 12 designers to design a gown just for her. The designers are as follows:

1. Vera Wang

2. J. Mendel

3. Arnold Scaasi

4. Carlos Miele

5. Amsale

6. Carmen Marc Valvo

7. Angel Sanchez

8. Badgley Mischka

9. Nicole Miller

10. Lela Rose

11. Marc Bouwer

12. Oscar de la Renta

I vote for Amsale or Oscar de la Renta.  I also love the designs by Nicole Millerand Carlos Miele.  But eww, what were they thinking… how hideous are those J. Mendel and Marc Bouwer dresses??

Which ones do you pick?