Quote Originally Posted by fingertrouble View Post
so went for the PC as I thought it looked nicer, proper or not ;-) These rules are obviously made by people who have portable wardrobes and endless bank accounts!
It's perfectly proper

Although there appears to be an American convention about not wearing a PC for a daytime wedding that is not something that necessarily applies in the UK. Here there is not only black tie and white tie (white tie being after 5pm) but there are two other formal dress conventions as well. They are: Morning dress and Court dress. For both of these a PC is entirely appropriate and a daytime wedding, where formal Morning dress is being worn, can have formal Highland Dress worn instead. Somewhere there is an official specification for Court Dress although I am not sure whether that is ever followed these days but I slightly digress

Anyway, at the end of the day a "rule" is simply a guideline. If you draw a line without using a ruler it is still a straight line. It may be a wonky straight line, because you didn't follow the rule, but it remains what it is, a perfectly proper but "unique" straight(ish) line