Father of the Bride & Groom Attire

I'm personally not a fan of the dad's matching the groom & groomsmen. I think it looks too matchy and weird since the mom's don't match the bridesmaids. I told our dads to wear whatever suit they felt most comfortable in (so basically dictated the suit part and that's it). We did buy them ties (different shades/prints of blue) so that tied them all together.

Our fathers are dressing themselves without our guidance.

Last time, my father and my FIL wore the same tux with different vest and bow tie. That was 24 years ago. Don’t know what the trend is now.

Father of the groom is also the best man, so he'll be wearing the same thing as the groomsmen. I don't know what my dad is wearing, but I'm not really concerned as long as it's a suit. I wouldn't want the dads matching personally.

This was a topic my husband and I didn't agree on. I thought both dads should match, but his dad owned a suit already and that's what he wanted to wear. My dad doesn't know a suit or tux. He works like 12 hour days so the last thing he felt like doing was going shopping for something to wear because he absolutely hates shopping. So he was perfectly content with wearing something I picked out. I wanted my dad in a black tux, but my husband didn't want either dad in the same color as the groomsmen so I picked a gray tux for my dad. My husband didn't check with his dad what color suit he owned even though I kept asking him to. Needless to say, he showed up in a black suit and I was not happy because I really wanted my dad in a black tux and my husband fought me on it because he didn't want either dad in black. I thought my dad should wear black because that's what I pictured him wearing.

My dad is wearing a suit he already has, and we decided just for fun his tie would match the groom and best man. My stepdad is barely going to dress up and my ffil isn’t coming.

Thanks everyone! You all brought up good points and I was already second guessing my decision, so I'm going to have them pick what they want to wear

Most of the time the fathers wear what they want. If they want to coordinate with the bridal party colors they will ask you otherwise I would let them wear what they want.

My FFIL is my FH's best man so he'll be matching anyways. My dad got the same suit as the groomsmen & FH! My dad matched the groom & groomsmen in both of my brothers' weddings (he was the best man for one of them). I don't think it's weird at all! I, actually, prefer them to match.

Our fathers chose their own outfits.

FIL wore a very nice suit, and my dad went all out, got a purple tux, and a top hat. (...I am an only child and we are super close, so he wanted to make a fashion statement - for the first time in his life!)

We put bouts on them, my dad walked me down the aisle and we had a dance, and FIL did one of the readings during the ceremony. (They also both ruled the dance floor, which was awesome.) These things made it very clear who the fathers were.

I just let them wear whatever aha