27 of the Freshest Celebrity Wedding Outfits of All Time
Welcome to Wedding Week, GQ Recommends’ exhaustive guide to navigating the nuptials circuit in style. Whether you’re looking for a non-corny groomsmen gift, the right venue to get hitched, or just trying to figure out how much to spend on a swanky new tux, we’ve got all the thoughts, takes, and, yes, recommendations you need to make planning your wedding—or attending someone else’s—a breeze.
Celebrity wedding outfits: they’re a mixed bag! For every Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez, there’s an equal and opposite Kid Rock…in Saint-Tropez. Hey, being famous is hard, and suiting up for your big day presents its own set of dress code-related head-scratchers. Not for the fellas here, though—these fellas got it right.
Not all of the guys below are pictured attending their own nuptials (some of them just got dolled up to celebrate the union of two “close personal friends”), but all of them came through in truly spectacular fashion. So if you’re struggling to make sense of an especially puzzling RSVP or really need some inspiration to get the creative juices flowing, you came to the right place.
Friends, countrymen, fellow exhausted reception-goers: lend us your eyes, and take a gander at 27 of the freshest, flyest celebrity wedding outfits of all time.
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Bill Rowntree / GettyDavid Bowie, 1986
If you’re going to call yourself the Thin White Duke, you’re kind of obligated to dress the part.
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Arnold Slater / Getty ImagesSting and Trudie Styler, 1992
We’ve got no beef with “Fields of Gold”, but doesn’t “Shades of Neutral” have a nice ring to it?
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Fairchild Archive / GettyJack Nicholson, 1976
You already know court-side Nicholson. It’s about time you got acquainted with black tie Nicholson and his equally legendary fits.
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Michael Ochs Archives / GettyElvis and Priscilla Presley, 1967
To be clear: If your dinner jacket kind of looks like your grandmother’s curtains, it’s a good thing.
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Bettmann / GettyStevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright, 1970
Proof that sleek black shades only look cooler when they match your floppy bowtie and satin-trimmed lapels.
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Mike Maloney / GettyElton John (right), 1971
Rare footage of Sir Elton wearing this season’s Gucci, probably.
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Michael Ochs / GettyAretha Franklin and Glynn Turman, 1978
The easiest way to make a classic tux feel all kinds of fresh? Add a big ol’ cowboy hat to the mix.
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Barry King / GettyAndy Warhol and Keith Haring, 1985
Warhol’s all-black rig looks great, but get a load of Keith in the jazzy shaw-collar tux!
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Central Press / GettyRingo Starr and Maureen Starkey, 1971
The next time you’re en route to a buddy’s destination wedding (and the buddy is Mick Jagger, and the destination is Saint-Tropez) this is exactly what you should wear.
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Ron Galella / GettyQuincy Jones, 1992
As Jones well knows, when a tux feels like overkill, a boss-level suit and groovy silk tie will alway look extremely cool.
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Mick Jagger and Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías, 1971
All the inspiration you need to pair your swaggering Savile Row tailoring with thoroughly cooked canvas “trainers”.
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Ron Galella / GettyFreddy Demann (left) and Madonna, 1971
A tip of the hat to you, Mr. Demann and our unidentified friend on the right: If you’re rolling with Madonna and still manage to hold your own, you’re doing a whole lot of things a whole lot of correct.
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William Lovelace / Hulton Archive / GettyRosemarie Frankland and Warren Entner, 1970
We’ll have whatever they’re having.
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Ron Galella / GettyJames Taylor and Kathryn Walker, 1985
Bonus points for pulling off the fringed white scarf without looking like a pontiff.
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Fairchild Archive / GettyJoni Mitchell and John Guerin, 1974
Hard to say who’s got the bigger fit, so we’ll call it a tie. (A tie, incidentally, is the last thing you need when your natural fashion acumen is this high.)
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Hulton Archive / GettySammy Davis Jr. and May Britt, 1960
When all else fails, it’s tough to beat the classics.
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John Stoddart / GettyHugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley, 2000
The swervy white tie ensemble: often attempted, rarely achieved.
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Bettmann / GettyJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969
The cheeky wedding certificate flex is cool, but we’re really here for the excellent matching sneakers.
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Dave Hogan / Hulton Archive / GettyCharlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Jo Howard, and Keith Richards, 1985
When you and your boys are riding different waves but still building.
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Ron Galella / GettyHenry Winkler and Stacey Weitzman, 1982
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Ron Galella / GettyCharles S. Dutton, 1993
God-tier black tie outerwear, done two ways. First up: Dutton, in a ridiculously swanky belted overcoat…
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Ron Galella / GettyChristopher Walken, 1985
…followed by Walken, in the type of puffer that wouldn’t look out place scaling Everest.
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Ron Galella / GettyRod Stewart and Alana Hamilton, 1979
Remember that tired old chestnut about looking in the mirror and taking one thing off before you leave the house? Stewart clearly never got the memo, and we’re all better off for it.
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Marc Chagall and Valentine Brodsky, 1952
The goat guy, it turns out, was kind of a menswear GOAT himself.
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Bettmann / GettyMarlon Brando and Anna Kashfi, 1957
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Ron Galella / GettyMichael Bolton, 1993
Well, folks, our work here is done: this is how you should do black tie right now.
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