So Dennis and Connie were married on Saturday (04/19/2008). The wedding was great, but it didn't go as smoothly as possible. The tuxedos were a mess. We got the tuxes from Men's Wearhouse. There were issues right from the start when I picked up my tux and my son's tux. Apparently almost all of the guys got the wrong shoes. I had the right ones, but it took about 20 minutes of "What color are they supposed to be?" before that got figured out. When we left Men's Wearhouse my son wanted to go to McDonald's and get a chicken nugget happy meal. This is probably his favorite food in the world right now, except of course my homemade meatballs. Anyway, we got there ordered food and proceeded to eat. Well, he didn't eat. My wife and I thought that was kinda strange. Especially since he had been clamoring for them 20 minutes before. He said he wanted to leave. I'm not one to argue with an already agitated 3yr old, so we packed up the happy meal and left. As we start to drive out of McDonalds, my son begins to cough. Then he goes into a coughing fit until I hear the dreaded sound. "awwwggrrrhralphahhh". Yep. He puked everywhere with the tuxedos in the car. So after a few minutes of checking to make sure he was OK, we headed home covered in vomit. My wife took him inside and cleaned him up. I inspected the mess. Apparently I was in luck. He managed to vomit on everything in the car except the tuxedos (Dennis you're a lucky man)! So I quickly took those into the house and set about cleaning up the mess. Two hours of trying to clean the car at night in the dark was not enough. I decided to stop and take it for a detailing the next morning. I took it over to Splash Zone (local detailer) and they got it really clean. That night I took the car and tuxedos up to Hackettstown for the church rehearsal. I handed the tuxes over to my friend "The Joe" and he put them in his hotel room for the next day so I didn't have to drive 2 hrs in a tux. Thanks Joe! When we got there the next day I started to get dressed in my tux. That's when we found out Men's Wearhouse really screwed up. All of the tuxes had weird little nagging issues. I didn't have cuff links, I was missing a sock, my son's vest was 2 sizes too big, and Shawn's shirt had a patch over the hole where the buttons go. When you add to that mess the fact that my brother in-law had to go searching every Men's Wearhouse in a 200 mile radius looking for the right shoes the might before, it was a total mess. But anyway, we somehow figured out ways to get by. I took my son's cuff links (Who looks at little kid's cuff links anyway?), Jacob had extra socks, and Shawn's vest covered the fact that he couldn't button his shirt halfway.
Bottom line, don't use Men's Wearhouse for tuxedo rentals unless you all go to the same store. Oh, and after 30 or 40 drinks no one cares what you are or aren't wearing anyway.
Here are some photos
