Could my boyfriend wear this to the evening of a wedding

[hihellohihey]

I have been invited to the whole day, he has been invited to the evening only, the wedding is a week on Friday and so it will be cold! Boyfriend has said he was thinking of wearing smart trousers and shoes and a black thin knit polo neck jumper. Is this too casual for the evening part of a wedding? He argued that as he is coming straight from work (a one hour train and then a one hour drive) a shirt would be creased by the time he arrived...

Sounds OK to me - I guess you are best placed to judge how laid back the wedding hosts will be, but it sounds smart enough to me

If it's for the evening and a 'standard' wedding, not black tie etc then I'd think he would be fine although perhaps slightly underdressed.

Yes a polo neck jumper is too casual. Loads of people wear shirts for travelling and manage to look perfectly presentable afterwards, so the journey is a weird excuse IMO

He would wear a suit jacket over the jumper, the wedding is in a marquee, not sure how formal other guests are going but I have a midi dress and fur coat because a marquee on the first day of Feb sounds cold to me

Why can't he travel for an hour in a shirt?

I think the jumper is because it is in a marquee. I think it is fine BTW. Any one who cooses to have a wedding in February in a marquee would understand that the guests would dress accordingly.

He can travel in a shirt, I think that's his main motive Lonicera! Assume he is trying to replicate something like this outfit... www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEU_enGB821GB821&biw=1536&bih=755&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=R89FXPG-I-yR1fAPoLykiAk&q=polo+neck+with+suit&oq=polo+neck+with+suit&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5i30j0i8i30.3996.5801..6122...0.0..0.187.1110.3j6......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i30j0i8i7i30j0i7i5i30.DgTdiugTPSE#imgrc=9_pDuASm5XdUkM:

If they are having it in a marquee they can’t exoect perfect etiquette from their guests.

By the evening the marquee will probably be sweaty and humid and he will be unpleasantly hot in a jumper with no option to take it off

I think it sounds fine for an evening do (albeit he may get a few people asking where his box of Milk Tray is )

Is he the Milk Tray man?

Don't like the look at all, agree it's very 1970 knitting catalogue, especially if he tucks it into his trousers!

Unless there is a malfunction, the marquee won't be cold!

Quite the opposite IME.

I was thinking 1970s Milk Tray too

I'd say he'll probably be underdressed but by that time of the day, nobody will be too bothered.

I think it’s too casual but I’ve just shown dh, he thinks it’s fine. (Dh and I always disagree with male wedding attire)

So long as he's not wearing jeans with it I think for an evening do he will look perfectly fine. I think polo necks look pretty smart on blokes anyway! (To confirm we are talking polo neck and not polo shirt?! Because polo shirt would be a massive No!!)

I have no idea about the milk tray man, think that was before my time!

Milk Tray Man

Well who cares what he wears with a face like that?

hihellohihey

He was basically some creepy wee stalker who'd break into your bedroom in his polo neck and leave you a box of shite chocolates. The 70s were very strange times.

He needs to wear a suit and tie and a coat if it’s cold.

morningeleven :) & purple lots of purple

Oh is his jacket velvet & purple :)