Suitable...

My how time flies. Two-and-a-half months later and we're down to just 12 days before the wedding.

After putting it off for a few weeks Annette and I finally got out and did some suit shopping. I haven't worn a suit since my mission and we figured my own wedding was an appropriate occasion to make a new purchase.

The most interesting part of the suit shopping experience for me is seeing the different personalities and the varied effectiveness of the salesmen.

Our first stop was Mr. Mac where we found the sales staff to be nice, but underwhelming. After showing us two suits, the salesmen concluded that they just didn't have what we were looking for and recommended that we come back some other time when they had more inventory.

We made a brief foray into Missionary Mall and actually found a workable suit, but decided the durability-to-style ratio was not favorable. And, the salesman there looked completely lost when faced with a prospective buyer that was not 19-years-old singing "Armies of Helaman" as he walked in the door. The most excited he got was when the topic of where I served my own mission came up.

We ended up making a purchase from Men's Warehouse, where the salesman was very good and got us what we wanted. We got a two-for-one deal on some very nice, high quality suits which will set me up for the wedding and other formal occasions down the road.

Hopefully this marks our last major expense.