Longwings or PTBs are requisite for a boxy flannel sack suit like yours.

Depends on the wedding, none worth going to will have a particular dress code.

But yes, wear your suit and feel great in it. the only alternative is evening wear depending on where you are (me, I jump at any chance to sport full highland dress).

Sod dressing a notch down from the groom(s) which would often be a tough call. I will however never compete with the bride.

My preference would be a plain point collar shirt, no pocket, always cufflinks. I have a couple of Brooks Brothers ones that do me fine.

Polished longwings in black or oxblood.

I'd avoid repp ties for a wedding - I like wider silk knits (needn't be black or navy). Or even consider a bow tie, I think they can look fantastic at social occasions.

Actually brown shoes/loafers/brown loafers would be fine as well - in all probability you'd still be one of the few men there in a decent outfit.

Delightful to see you back Moose btw...

And plan on spilling plenty of food and liquids and sweating on whatever you wear.

SP, maybe not the gunboats to a wedding, and not a repp tie either, something with pindots or a small foulard ... not rules of course, just nuance ......

where is the wedding and what time of day is it?  fancy or not?  especially these days your suit should be fine for any evening wedding short of having to wear a tuxedo

last four weddings I went to were at a country club in the afternoon, yacht club in the evening, private house in the evening, and beachside hotel at sunset

I wore respectively: a tan cotton sack suit, a charcoal-gray worsted sack, a black barathea tuxedo, and a blue linen sport coat ... these choices were good for the time of day and the venue,   

miscellaneous advice: have a nice time, make sure to flirt with all the ladies, talk business and sports with the old boys, dance some dances, get the girls' digits, wear what you already have if you can, don't forget to give a wedding present, congratulate the newlywed couple and thank the parents before you go

do not get ill, get into a fight, bother uninterested women, get caught smoking weed on the golf course, get arrested for drunk and disorderly for falling over on the sidewalk as you leave, or get a DUI as you drive away.

I got sufficiently drunk at my cousin's wedding to vomit in her husband's parents' garden - and not a drop of damage to any of my clothing. I just hope the flowers continued to grow afterwards.

/\  no rules Big O., just a little conceptual separation between party clothes/wedding attire and businesswear .... however, like Yuca said, anything SP comes up with is going to be fine. 

just going by my experience, I've been to a few Ivy weddings over the years .....  and I love repp ties, they're just a little strong for weddings, for me ....

similarly, longwings seem a bit serious for a wedding, again, just my personal feeling, but I'd wear plain-toes or cap-toes to a wedding before longwings 

by the way, I liked the Alden patent formal shoes you posted some time ago somewhere, mine are nearly 30-year-old Church's, but if they ever get really trashed I'll get a pair of Aldens .

I recall a thread in which Yuca wound everybody up by hinting he was going to wear black penny loafers to a wedding with his tuxedo ... Cary Grant was cited ...

I mentioned then that I'd seen it done before and that it looked great to me, so you know I'm not rule-bound ... my friend also wore a white ocbd with his tuxedo that time ha ha 

Absintheist, I bet you had a good time at that wedding in your madras shorts, t-shirt and v-neck!

P.S.  Ollie I have that same Brooks Brothers tie, it's one of my very favorites, that would be great for Sancho, and I also like Moose's bowtie suggestion even though I don't usually wear them ....

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I agree that there's not enough bow ties on this forum, Stan. They seem to get unfairly filtered with the yuppie scum prep look but a buttondown and batwing are a dead cool combo when worn with the right rig.

I know the long wingtip is probably best suited to kicking some serious ass in the business world, but I'll gladly wear them all the time once the weather turns cool / cold.  Stan's dad would be proud of me.