Would you dress formally still IF...

We've never dressed in formal wear for photographers - we dress for each other and because we are very comfortable wearing our formal clothing. We have so few opportunities to wear sparklies & heels (me) and tux (DH), that we really look forward to being able to do so when we cruise.

Smooth Sailing! :) :) :)

If the ship requested/suggested formal attire, I would go along with their wishes. It would be disrespectful to the host otherwise.

If the ship requested/suggested formal attire, I would go along with their wishes. It would be disrespectful to the host otherwise.

YES YES YES

I wonder if I asked some people to me wedding and requested that they dress formal if they would just choose to ignore that request, or show up wearing whatever they pleased.

Good ole fashioned manners says that if the host requests something you comply. But I guess manners don't count for much anymore.

Hello! I haven't sen you in a while! How have you been?

Comfortable !!!

I love getting dressed up for formal night, and have no trouble meeting the dress code as requested. :)

We seldom purchase photos but always don formal garb on formal nights....and love to do so.

Touché. And not to show off either

It is just what you feel nice in

 

Too many think I dress to show off when it's just what I'm used to and comfortable in

 

 

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And you certainly stand out, Greg:D:D:D

We've purchased two photos on Royal cruises. Both have us wearing jeans and jackets while getting off the ship in Alaska ports.

We bought other pictures from our first Disney cruise, but a 3 night doesn' thave formal night, so we weren't wearing formal clothes. The photographers came to the table and snapped the pictures. We didn't line up.

The clothes have nothing to do with the photographs.

I'm sad that so many think that formal clothes have to be uncomfortable! Find a nice suit/dress shop, find a great tailor, and get comfy AND formal clothing if you wish to get formal clothes! No reason to be uncomfortable just because you're dressed up.

Or insert the topic into threads about photographs.

The thread is about photographs AND formal attire. :)

When the photographers approach us, I just shake my head "no" and politely say "no thank you".

Yes. Absolutely. I think it is nice to dress for dinner every night. Formal on formal night. I have not used the ship's photographers since my first cruise long ago. I don't dress for them. I dress for me.

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With well over 50 cruise, we have the photos we want -- we dress formally because we enjoy doing so.

When the photographers approach us, I just shake my head "no" and politely say "no thank you".

That's funny. That is exactly how I handle the drug dealers in Jamaica.:)

I have two young boys. I need any excuse I can get to dress them in something other than T-shirts and gym pants. So yes, we dress up on dress up or not night on NCL and I love it! Sparkly dress and way too high heels for me, dress pants, shirts with buttons and ties for the boys, DH is in a dark suit.

On the photography issue, we have had some fantastic photos taken of our family by people who seemed to care about capturing us at our best. We now have a growing set of yearly photos of our family, which I'm sure will give me hours of pleasure reminiscing about the good old days when I'm retired!

It works for us.

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Part of the fun of dressing up and color coordinating is having photos taken.

Yes because I've never, in the ten years we've been cruising, had a photo taken by the ships photographers, whether a formal portrait or any other kind. Each to their own but I loathe having my photo taken, wouldn't dream of submitting myself to it and *then* having to pay money for the result lol.

We always dress for formal night - I like dressing up.

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Even now with photographers available my sister and I dress formally even though we don't care to have our photographs taken.

Yes. The photography has nothing to do with it, I enjoy looking nice.

Absolutely. Has nothing yo do with photos.

LOVE a man in a tux---need I say more? ;);)

No.

Photographers or no photographers we pass on formal attire.

No.

 

Photographers or no photographers we pass on formal attire.

I agree with the above. I am not a member of a country club. I have never been a member of a country club. I have no desire to become a member of a country club. I do not wish to pretend to be a member of a country club.

I agree with the above. I am not a member of a country club. I have never been a member of a country club. I have no desire to become a member of a country club. I do not wish to pretend to be a member of a country club.

I was unaware that a country club membership was required for wanting to dress nicely every now and then...

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I was unaware that a country club membership was required for wanting to dress nicely every now and then...

 

 

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Well said, Kebhouse.

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I was unaware that a country club membership was required for wanting to dress nicely every now and then...

 

 

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I can dress nicely without having to play dress up. I have no desire to relive my junior prom.

I agree with the above. I am not a member of a country club. I have never been a member of a country club. I have no desire to become a member of a country club. I do not wish to pretend to be a member of a country club.

I can dress nicely without having to play dress up. I have no desire to relive my junior prom.

Anything intelligent to add, as opposed to those silly statements? :rolleyes: