can a groom wear jeans to a wedding?

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That's it really.
Would it be appropriate for a groom to wear:
Brown shoes, dark blue jeans white shirt and brown waistcoat for a wedding?
A bit like this?
Opinions please.

Ta

Bit late to the party () as you seem happily resolved, but I just wanted to say that the jeans and dress pictures you posted looked really lovely. Your wedding sounds like it's going to be awesome!

I had 30 guests and we did arrive 11:30, ceremony 12, about an hour of photos, sit down meal at 2, everyone went home/we left at 5.

It really doesn't take that long especially if you are doing it all in the same venue.

Only thing we would do differently now is have a quick registry office ceremony on another day which would have allowed us to have a much more individualized ceremony on our wedding day - we couldn't have the vows, music etc we really wanted as it all had to fit the civil ceremony whereas if we had written our own ceremony we could have done whatever we liked and got DH's brother to officiate in a sort of handfasting.

^^ you can have certainly have personalised vows etc in civil ceremonies - most register offices/registrars will be fairly flexible on it often depending on the type of ceremony you pick.
But, off topic, I think your wedding sounds lovely OP

If I was in an elaborate bloody meringue and groom decided he was wearing jeans then no of course not but if they both want casual then why not? i

I've been to a couple of weddings with artfully casual be-jeaned grooms so I think it's a 'thing' now. They were also held in converted barns. No pie and mash though but seem to remember fish and chips being served at one.

We wanted elements of the religious ceremony vows but minus the god and that was a complete no no for our registrar. We couldn't have anything with any religious origins whatsover even if it was just the tune

Got round this by picking classical music she didn't know with lyrics in a foreign language

Oh God, so it's not just about wanting to be relaxed and casual then, it's the next thing, like sweet trollies and photo booths... Nothing new under the sun.

All you need to say on the invites is "Dress: Casual"

If you want to be clearer and less formal then "Dress Code: Whatever you feel like, the groom will be in jeans"

I lie, I've checked and only one of weddings had a jean wearing groom. The other was dressed like one of Mumford & Sons in that posh boy/Victorian farm labourer look.

If you both want to nip in and out of the registry office and not bother with a fuss, photos etc., then jeans are fine, but it will look odd if he wears jeans and you are wearing a lovely dress like the one you linked to, IMO.

However, I'm glad you have taken the advice on here and decided to let guests know in advance.

Back no registry office, a converted barn I think.
We've decided on navy chinos I think now anyway. For all the groomsmen too with white shirts and then just a different waistcoat for DP. I'm not really fussed what anyone wears, I just want to get married and spend my life with him.

Flogging please don't be rude. I'm not having sweet trollies or anything of the sort.
I just want to be relaxed.
I didn't say I wanted to be new.

There's some shitty posts on here, especially floggings, what's your problem with op doing what SHE (and her DP) doing what they want?

OP I think your plans sound lovely and I think that the waistcoat and those jeans look great together

Yup - one of dh friends more or less exactly this for his wedding. He looked decidedly handsome...

5madthings lovely! I love your petticoat and shoe combo :-)

Just seen your dress that is lovely too! Makes me wish I hadn't had a big formal wedding.

He can wear what he likes but I would suggest he gets the brides blessing... Also big yes to letting guests know you are going informal.

I think that would be a great outfit for a bridegroom and there should be more weddings where people dress individually rather than formally. This will probably out me but my brother, who is absolutely not a suity kind of person, got married in a tweed jacket, sandy coloured jeans and a shirt with a tie with a design that related to one of his interests. I think he had brown leather shoes or boots on with it. It was a lot smarter than his usual look but still recognisably "him" whereas it would have been really weird for him to be stuffed into a smart suit.

My hubby wore black jeans and converse with a grey jacket. Our wedding was really low key. I loved it.

Remembered my friends wedding where the groom (a life long metal head) wore a suit much to everyones surprise. However he wore it with a red Tshirt, converse and his mohican freshly dyed red for the day, to no ones surprise! He looked great because that is his look.

I think he's gonna wear Navy chinos, white shirt, tie and a tweedy/browny type waist coat. He's gonna look HOT. (If I do say so myself!)

I think your wedding sounds great- one of my FB friends had a similar theme a few weeks back. He was almost identical to your pics, and she wore a midi length ivory dress with colourful manolos. It was lovely!

You can wear what you want to your wedding. You might want to take into consideration the opinion of your wife and your mother, but, there is no law dictating what should or shouldnt be worn.

He can.

But he should definitely tell the bride before she turns up in some giant frock.

No giant frock for me...I want to be relaxed
What do people think of this?!