Many people have asked us (and my mother asks me on a daily basis),<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat should I wear?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs this casual or dressy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are people wearing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have ten outfits I have purchased for your wedding, and I am slowly narrowing them down through an excruciating and confusing process that involves me calling and talking through each possibility until you feel part of your face go numb. What do you think of pantaloons?\u201d<\/p>\n
You know, stuff you would expect.<\/p>\n
First of all, let me say, on behalf of Crawford and myself, we would prefer that you wear clothes. It\u2019s not that we have anything against nudity, in fact, nudity is great \u2013 a good breeze on your nether bits can be both refreshing and invigorating – but for the wedding we would prefer that you err on the side of covered.<\/p>\n
But we know that “covered” can be open to all sorts of interpretations. With all the various options in the fields of pants, suits, skirts, shirts, dresses, shorts, skorts, activewear, swimwear, jumpsuits, etc. we might want to give you some ideas as to what would be appropriate attire.<\/p>\n
Here’s some background and some thoughts so that you aren’t a hot mess in a dress.<\/p>\n
The Cedar House<\/b><\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t really explained\u00a0where<\/i>\u00a0we\u2019re getting married.\u00a0 That might help inform appropriate attire.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re getting hitched at the Cedar House, one of the oldest houses in Clearwater. It\u2019s not an old mansion, or some regal estate, it\u2019s just an old house. It\u2019s a comfy house, it has well worn stairs, windows that appear rippled in the right light, and little nooks and crannies that have no doubt provided excellent cover for countless games of hide-and-go-seek.\u00a0 The mail slots set into the front of the house indicates that at one time the house held 6 separate apartments. It’s been the site for retreats, family reunions, vacations, anniversary parties, birthday parties, and weddings.<\/p>\n
This rambling pale yellow house seems to have an endless supply of bedrooms and bathrooms, two kitchens, a pool table, a huge formal dining room, a couple of sitting rooms, and a spiral staircase that is going to be a really bad idea for some poor drunken soul over the course of our weekend.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the biggest house at the end of street, backing up to the Clearwater inlet, in a simple, blue-collar neighborhood. The neighbors seem nice, they have cats that we\u2019re told may wander over, and at some point we\u2019ll probably have to keep the noise to a reasonable level.<\/p>\n
Off the pool deck is a sloping backyard where we\u2019re going to be entering into a binding contract recognized by the State of Florida. The grass is what we in Florida call \u201cSt. Augustine\u201d which is code for \u201cwill eat your heels in one thoughtless gulp.\u201d<\/p>\n
And even if the grass was kinder to high heels, there is also the slope. Let me be clear \u2013 it\u2019s a slopey slope. More than a beer or two, you could consider it a sloppy slope. Someone is going to eat shit on it. Probably me. I\u2019m okay with that\u00a0 – my dress has a train.<\/p>\n
Yours doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n
So ladies? Comfy footwear please. You\u2019re in Florida; nice flip-flops are perfectly acceptable. In fact, most of us won\u2019t even think twice if you\u2019re wearing them.\u00a0Six\u00a0of my mother\u2019s possible outfits have matching flip-flops.\u00a0 It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n
The Weather<\/strong><\/p>\n The weather will be beautiful, because if it isn\u2019t we\u2019re all going to be stuck in that big beautiful house I just described and it ain\u2019t that big or beautiful when you\u2019re trying to cram all of humanity into it.<\/p>\n I suspect the high will be right around 82 with a southeasterly breeze and a moderate chop on the bay and inlet waters.\u00a0 But that\u2019s just a guess.<\/p>\n As a result, dress comfortably. Wear something that allows you to soak your feet in the pool, that let’s you play bocce in the backyard, that encourages you to roll down the slope, or wade into the inlet. Wear something that makes you feel pretty, handsome, charming, witty, and smart. Wear something that says, “I’m on vacation in Florida” (whatever that means to you). Wear something that says, “I’m in the theater, what? I always dress like this.” Sure the groom and his dudes and my dudes will be in jackets and ties. That\u2019s because we\u2019re the entertainment for the evening and we want to look nice for y\u2019all.\u00a0 Errybody else \u2013 just wear something light, lightweight, comfy, breezy, and expandable\u2026<\/p>\n Cuz you gonna be stuffing your face full of pig.<\/p>\n Which brings me to two words that might sway your fashion decisions: Barbeque. Sauce.\u00a0 Right? I know. I mean what sort of idiot would wear white to a barbeque?!?!?<\/p>\n Oh. Wait.<\/p>\n Damnit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many people have asked us (and my mother asks me on a daily basis), \u201cWhat should I wear?\u201d \u201cIs this casual or dressy?\u201d \u201cWhat are people wearing?\u201d \u201cI have ten outfits I have purchased for your wedding, and I am slowly narrowing them down through an excruciating and confusing process that involves me calling and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,32,31],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-attire","tag-dress-code","tag-wedding-dress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kariandcrawford.com\/events\/wedding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}