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The best summer wedding suit will save you a world of headache. Think about it: Peak wedding season is a (*Ric Flair voice*) fit’-wearin’, wallet-drainin’, party-hoppin’ time of year—and the fact that it takes place during the sweltering stretch between June and August doesn't help. Which means the suit you save for job interviews and Valentine’s Day dinners won't cut it.
That’s why we strongly recommend you invest in a suit like the below, tailored from breathable, featherweight fabrics with little to no lining, and neutral enough to handle a summer’s worth of weddings and the fit mashups that go with them—from aloha shirts to vintage polos to good ol’ fashioned button-downs and ties—so they’ll never see you in the same thing twice. Oh, yeah, and did we mention a whole lot of 'em clock in at well under $1,000? Park that saved dough at the post-reception bar.
Seven Easy, Breezy Suits to Stop the Shvitzing
- The Best Tuxedo for a Summer Wedding: Todd Snyder Italian Seersucker Tuxedo, $1225
- The Best Tuxedo for a Summer Wedding (on the Amalfi Coast): Banana Republic Satin Tuxedo, $650
- The Best Summer Wedding Suit if You Hate Seersucker: J.Crew Cotton Pincord Suit, $650
- The Best *Gestures in Italian* Summer Wedding Suit: Mango x Boglioli Cotton Suit, $670
- The Best Summer Wedding Suit for Fashion Guys: Lemaire Khaki Suit, $2790
- The Best Summer Wedding Suit for Busting a Move: Noah Linen Herringbone Sack Suit, $1795
- The Best Summer Wedding Suit That's More 'Summer' Than 'Suit': CDLP Linen Set, $600
The Best Summer Wedding Suit for the Office
Read enough guides to occasion-specific tailoring, and you’ll encounter no shortage of pithy, alliterative soundbites extolling any given suit’s versatility, “from point A to point B” and back again. The boardroom to the bar; the trail to the taco stand; the dais to the dance floor—you get the picture. The notion is a little hackneyed at this point, but we understand the impulse—and are just as eager to help you find a suit you can wear on your pal's big day and to work the following Monday. Enter the Drake’s Games suit, which combines the best traits of your chillest blazer and trustiest chore coat. Crafted from a cunning navy cotton-linen blend, the jacket features two hefty flap pockets, one regular-sized patch pocket, and a ventless back, which gives it a boxier, more casual shape designed for solo wear. Pair it with the matching, chino-adjacent pants and you’ve got a suit you can rock to your mountain-dwelling bestie's forestry affair or to a classic chapel ceremony—even if the AC hasn't been operational since the place opened.
The Best Tuxedo for a Summer Wedding
Sartorial crystal ball, what do you wear to a capital-W Wedding in the dead of summer? A sleek seersucker tuxedo that’ll have you swag-surfin’—not surfing in sweat—no matter where the ceremony is. Todd Snyder’s fits the bill, color like be damned. (Lighter colors might be best for midday nuptials, but black is a safe bet once the sun sets.) Snyder's puckered joint as is black tie as you can get without blacking out from heat exhaustion. It boasts high-shine lapels, welt pockets, natural shoulders, and all of the trimmings of a traditional tux—luxe underpinnings, timeless finishings—updated for hellish July weather.
The Best Tuxedo for a Summer Wedding…on the Amalfi Coast
That being said, when you’re scheduled for a 2 p.m. ceremony in an open field without a hint of shade, wear white—or, at least, some version if it. (Wear true white and the bride might beat your ass.) Banana Republic’s luxed-up Italian satin tuxedo comes in a shade of eggshell reminiscent of high-end cake frosting, an appropriate reference point given the context you'll be rocking it. It’s swanky-as-hell and designed to fit louche, loose, and languorous—but not as louche, loose, and languorous as a suit from the 2003 NBA Draft. The rayon fabric is gloriously cool to the touch, and the whole shebang is lined with organic cotton to help it breathe without compromising its structure. Bellissimo, no?
The Best Summer Wedding Suit if You Hate Seersucker
In menswear circles, seersucker can be a little polarizing. The Southern-leaning, salesman-adjacent suiting fabric, with its characteristic blue-and-white stripes, skews a bit fuddy-duddy. So if you dig the material's seasonal flair but not its Colonel Sanders associations, the platonic alternative is pincord, a cousin of traditional corduroy with finer ridges, less fuzz, and built-in air conditioning. No, your suit won’t hum like a window unit, but the ridges allow for better airflow; from afar, no one will even notice them. Take a closer look at J.Crew's multi-colored Kenmare suit, though, and the magic reveals itself. Outside in the sun, it’s basically white. Inside, it’s sky blue. Up close, it’s both. Like we said: Magic.
The Best Scandalously Affordable Summer Wedding Suit
Don’t let Buck Mason’s everyman prices (or West Coast roots) fool you—these days, the upstart brand is fast evolving into one of the premier remixers of de-fussed blue-blooded style. Take, for example, its Graduate suit, an Ivy-inspired joint with enough bells and whistles to make even the most judicious menswear nerd swoon, all at a price that wallops dingier department-store fare. To less keen eyes, it might look like a souped-up riff on a dusty khaki number. To the real heads, though, it’s a lightweight, soft-shouldered, patch-pocketed, hook-vented American icon in the making.
The Best Summer Wedding Suit for Villa Ceremonies
Someday soon, your richest friend will humbly request your presence in the South of France, and you will need a suit—or, at least, a suit-esque set—to match the vibe of the occasion. Needless to say, the suit in question shouldn’t be your trusty 9-to-5 standby: it should be breezy, casual, and unlike any other two-piece in your rotation. In other words, it should feel a lot like Stòffa’s pajamas-adjacent wool-seersucker set, which will make you look like you just jumped off the PJ, not out of bed. It’s a little boxy and very drapey, thanks to a drawstring waist and a sleazy camp collar that leaves little to the imagination, but that’s fine (it’s France, after all). What were you going to do—rock the same blue suit you wear to work? We thought so.
The Best Summer Wedding Suit for Busting a Move
When you need a suit with bona fide street cred, buy it from a brand like Noah. Skateboarding has been central to the NYC label’s mission from the start, and its products wear that DNA proudly—and not a little slyly. Take this unstructured sack suit as an example. Would anyone guess you’re a repentant skate rate when you pull up in a texture-rich linen herringbone two-piece this swanky? We’d guess not—and we’d also guess that those same chilled-out properties will help you shred the dance floor until your knees give out (your ligaments, not the linen), without stressing a busted seam or popped button. The same can be said for the pants, which are double-pleated to give you plenty of room to skate, sit, cha-cha slide, cupid shuffle, or crank that.
The Best Summer Wedding Suit That's More 'Summer' Than 'Suit'
What if, and bear with us here, the perfect summer wedding suit isn’t a suit at all—like at all? Instead, it might be a matching set made from a lightweight linen blend, with a healthy dollop of silky lyocell in the mix. If that sounds like menswear word salad to you, don’t sweat it: to the Swedes at CDLP, it simply sounds like a recipe for wedding-season greatness. Imagine your favorite chore coat—now imagine it made out of linen, and even sexier. Imagine your favorite trousers—now imagine those made out of linen, and even sexier. Now pinch yourself and stop imagining entirely, because that’s exactly what we’re talking about—a non-suit suit that you can wear to your best friend’s last-minute nuptials or on the first date with the person you meet at it.
The Best Cali-Coded Summer Wedding Suit
Any wedding guest with a faraway ceremony to attend knows the struggle of hauling a suit there in reception-ready condition. Carry it on the plane and you’re bound to forget it on your way off; pack it in your carry-on and it’ll stay creased long after you’ve steamed it in the shower. That’s not why San Fran menswear legend Evan Kinori crafted a suit that looks a little wrinkled right off the rack, but it’s a damn good reason to buy it. The cult-loved designer’s nubby linen two-piece comes fully lined, moderately tailored, barely structured, and perfectly tumbled, which gives the fabric a gently lived-in look. For best results, pair with bedhead and shades.
The Best *Gestures in Italian* Summer Wedding Suit
Weddings are notoriously tricky to dress for; you don’t want to be left out, but you don’t want to stand out, either. So for the wedding-goer with, shall we say, a healthier aversion to risk, there are plenty of options. This is one of the best of them—but don’t confuse its streamlined silhouette and approachable price for an utter lack of personality. Taken in aggregate—slim-but-not-skinny cut, crisp ecru-colored cotton, tony Italian pedigree—Mango and Boglioli’s perfectly dialed suit conjures images of an aperitivo-in-hand reception where every single guest is better dressed than the last. The jacket has perfectly tidy lapels, the pants are finished at the wait for a clean look, and both can be worn with whatever shoes the occasion demands—fisherman sandals, huaraches, or just your bare, sun-tanned dogs.
The Best Summer Wedding Suit for Diehard Fashion Guys
The most important thing the Wedding Industrial Complex and the fashion industry share in common—besides for all the alcohol and flowers? Both used to be dictated by a strict set of rules, spoken or not, and both have relaxed ‘em substantially over the years. That’s how you end up with one wily wedding guest wearing this fully deconstructed khaki suit from the French layering gods at Lemaire, which, frankly, barely looks like a suit at all—but still hews to the source material in a few crucial ways. It features an open-spread collar with tiny lapels, a three-button front, flap pockets, and matching pants with cinch tabs. In other words, it’s best saved for masters of the dark arts of dressing up—those that have done the ‘proper’ suit before and cannot be damned to do it again, but very much can, without retribution from the groom or other power-wielding people in attendance, sport this kind of wool-linen set to a ceremony with impunity. Fashion hurts, and this guy’s willing to suffer (read: alienate a few miffed aunties) for it. Kudos, sir.