My personal opinion is that he could wear a jacket with no tie or a dress shirt with a tie and no jacket.  I think that anything more formal goes past cocktail IMHO.

Sarah

Mommy to DD (6) and DS (3)

I would say a suit or a jacket. 

MLM MANIAC

I say suit and tie too.

Formerly, Mom2babyboy

I'd say jacket and tie or suit and tie, both would be fine, but I don't think he needs to go with a black suit.  How fun!  This is the reason for all those cute cocktail dresses at the store!  :)

Mom to Frank since 6/1/07

Cocktail attire for men is a suit and tie. Sorry, TAJ, but I think he needs a dark suit - doesn't have to be black, and tie. We attended a "cocktail attire" wedding a few weeks ago and all the men were in dark suits and ties. One guy wore a sports coat and khakis and he stuck out like a sore thumb.

Michelle

W's Mom

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Agreed. Dark suit and tie.

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Lot of help yall are.  HA HA!  Ok, dark suit and tie for dh.  I have a cocktail dress, but think I need to buy one from this century.  :)

THANKS so much for your opinions.  Want to look nice while we brown-nose....

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Lisa

Mother of eight.

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Macy had some very cute cocktail style dresses on sale at Cool Springs.  Oh, fun...go shopping and enjoy!

Kelly

I bought a VERY cute strapless black dress with horizontal folded/pleated fabric at the top from Target for $39 and wore it to a wedding last month. They had lots of other cocktail dresses. It fit better than many dresses I paid 4 times that for from department stores.

Here is is online:

www.target.com/Merona-Collection-Pleated-Strapless-Dress/dp/B00284EJ3A/ref=sc_qi_detailbutton

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