tuxedos – Nelsons

Saturday marked the five-week point in the big countdown. I thought I would mention a few things Heather and I got taken care of over the weekend.

First off we placed the Tux order. I have actually had all the measurements for a week or so, but getting them all standardized and in one place took a while. Once I had that, I still had to find time to actually swing by the shop. Heather and I went on Saturday. It was probably a good thing Heather came though, because although we had sort of picked out tuxes, there was still some color selection to be done. The shop still didn’t impress me really, but considering this visit wasn’t paired with a car breakdown, I left with a much higher opinion than I had the first time.

The other significant item Heather and I knocked out was sending out the “please let us know if you can come to the rehearsal dinner, and if so what would you like to eat” e-mail. That should be simple enough, but running down e-mail addresses still took a while, not to mention actually picking what should go on the menu. That task can’t be 100% checked off the list I suppose because now we have to monitor our inbound e-mail and figure out if we have information from everyone.

I might be counting trivial things as newsworthy, but its still nice to feel like we are staying on top of things before they hit a crisis point.

-Jordan

I have not yet placed the order for Tuxedos for groomsmen yet, but I finally have info from everyone. Several of my guys took a while to get me their information, but really we still have tons of time for that.

I sat down today to type up the information everyone had given me onto a single document and made kind of an interesting discovery.

Well first let me back up, finding every one’s information turned out to be time consuming. In theory, I should have been able to grab it all really quickly, thanks to the fact that I had all the e-mails in gmail. I thought I had stared (gmail’s term for flagging) every e-mail that came in with tux info. Turns out I hadn’t remembered to do that. Well, no problem, gmail has really good search options I can just search for “tux” right? No because a few of the e-mails don’t actually say the word “tux” nor are they replies to an e-mail that does. So I figured I can just search for e-mail containing a term like “overarm” or “out seam” and get them all… Only several of the measurements were sent in as scanned images of the form the shop used, so there isn’t even any text to search for.

Eventually I found every one’s information, and started typing up my master sheet to hand off to the tux shop. That’s when I found out that apparently tux shops cannot agree in what order the measurements should come in. That may not seem shocking to you, but I had just figured that considering how long tux rentals have been around, they probably all used the exact same format for their measurements. They don’t… They don’t all use the same order for their measurements, and some of them don’t seem to use the same terminology. Beyond that a few places seem to have been more ambitious, giving 2-3 more dimensions than the other shops. It made it annoying when my goal had been to produce a listing of each guy with the exact same information after each.

roughly half the forms I was sent lacked shoe size. I guess the shops figured everyone knows their own shoe size, but interestingly enough, although I know these guys well enough to ask them to stand up with me in my wedding, I don’t know their shoe sizes. I guess I will be making a few phone calls over the weekend to wrap this process up 🙂

-Jordan