The Wedding Wildlife

As you may have seen, Eileen has been focused on finding the right bridal partywear. She has also been thinking about what she wants the men to wear and after much discussion and research, we finally decided on the first piece -- a shirt. Since we found a potential shirt online and wanted to get it sooner than later, we had to act quickly. And we had to make sure the shirts fit.

It's not often that I buy fancy dress shirts and so when I usually shop, I look for sizes in the Small, Medium, and Large variety (Well, OK. If we're being honest - Large and X-Large nowadays). But since we needed formal wear and better fitting shirts, we needed to get the neck size and sleeve lengths. The nice lady at the store measured me at a 16.5 inch neck and 35 inch sleeves. The other guys would have to measure themselves.

When we received measurements back, most of them sounded reasonable. Two of them sounded a little off. One groomsman who's slightly shorter than me returned a 39" sleeve length. That sounded a tad long.

Another groomsman, who's also only slightly shorter than me, returned a 21" sleeve length. This sounded a tad short.

In the end we were able to get more accurate measurements and place the order. Unfortunately, we need to exchange all the shirts... except for the ones of the two groomsmen above.