Building Your First Wedding Fashion Capsule
The dapper gentlemen of the world can’t be caught at a wedding looking like they just showed up off the street and have to deal with the infuriating ID’ing while at a loved one’s reception. But, in the same breath, it can be hard to stay fashionable while attending multiple weddings within the same year.
If you weren’t aware, this problem of having outfits on-hand whenever a special occasion crops up has already been solved by the fashion world. Women have been creating fashion capsules to keep a wide variety of outfits available, but saving space, time, and money by organising them into a set, or capsule, that can be pulled anytime from your concert and be ready to go for the next special occasion.
Start thinking about your favorite styles to wear, toss them into a pile on your bed. It all begins with chaos, but it all will end with organization. You don’t need to go out and buy new clothes, yet.
1. Separate the Best
We all have our favorite clothes to wear, so start separating those and putting them to the side first. If you’re wishy-washy about certain pieces, then you can put them into a pile, just don’t spend all your time thinking about which ones are your favorites and ranking them.
Next, move onto your accessories, shoes, and jewelry. Start building outfits with them using your favorite clothes and figure out how many outfits you can make out of them using different combinations.
2. Purge Excess
Remember, this is for your wedding capsule only, so any duplicates should either go back into the closet or be donated away. This is an important step in capsule creation. You should not grow attached to one pair of pants and own three of them “just in case”. Nope, if you happen to ruin a pair at a wedding, you just replace them with something else. See how simple things work when you have a plan and purpose?
3. Organize and Store
If you’ve only managed to make two or three outfits that are unique, just buy enough new clothes items to make it easy for you to store your little wedding fashion capsule away into your closet. This process is just as much about organizing your everyday clothes from your wardrobe capsule. So, ideally, you should compartmentalize your everyday clothes into separate partitions in your closet.
Don’t split your capsule into different locations, it defeats the whole purpose of being able to grab your outfits, quickly identify everything and eliminating poor last-minute decisions or the temptation of wearing your wedding attire for normal occasions.
Once you’ve used up all your looks in your wedding capsule, you can rotate in some new clothes and keep updating your capsule every year or so, depending on how often you find yourself at weddings. This state of constant organization keeps your style fresh, your wallet full (from not having excess clothes laying around), and your closet mobile, as you can grab your capsule and go anywhere.
My husband needs to have a nice outfit on hand for special occasions. I love those shoes.
A wedding capsule wardrobe is a great idea! Especially for those of us who are at the age when all our friends are getting married at the same time!
So true, springtime weddings happen every week.
Great idea! We have a wedding coming up in April!
What a fun idea! I really like the shoes pictured here. How stylish.
Clothing capsules are awesome ideas, but I never even considered one for men! My boyfriend needs a good suit and shoes…
These are great tips. It’s awesome if your man already has all the essentials but if not, there’s no harm in picking the outfits that he has and just shop for the ones that he needs.
Those are great tips for all the guys. Especially on how many outfits they can make out of their favorite clothes using different combinations of shoes, accessories, and jewelry.
Those are great tips for all the guys. Especially on how many outfits they can make out of their favorite clothes using different combinations of shoes, accessories, and jewelry.
This is really helpful. I’ve never known how to create a wedding fashion capsule for men.
This is great advice for my husband. He is colorblind and it takes him awhile to figure out what matches! This would really help him organize for weddings and special events.
This is such a cool idea! I have never heard of doing this.
These are the shoes that my husband likes to wear, not even on a wedding day. He is quite fashionable!
Fantastic!
What a great idea! I will definitely be sharing this with my engaged friends! Wonderful idea!
This is such a great idea. Will surely share it with my brother.
What an interesting idea! I have heard of capsule wardrobe but haven’t thought about creating a fashion capsule for a specific occasion.
My guy could definitely use a little inspiration in this area. We have a few weddings to attend this year and he has probably too many options in his closet.
I love those shoes. Next week my sister marriage needs to have a nice outfit on hand for special occasions.