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[quote=Anonymous]Define “day time”?  Is the event expected to conclude after 6 or 7 pm?

No one wears morning dress anymore in the US except super duper posers.  That’s absurd and the response above is cringy and trying too hard.

The rules have slipped quite a bit in the US - black tie can include dark suit with white shirt and conservative tie or tux and as long as the event concludes around dusk or after, it’s pretty normal.

Semi-formal wear looks and feels ridiculous at 3 or 4pm, but unless you’re going to go change between service and reception (which is an option!), you’ll feel under dressed at a semi-formal evening reception.

If the entire thing concludes before dusk (especially if it concludes significantly before dusk or begins before 2 or 3 in the afternoon), I’d wear a seasonally/climate appropriate suit and conservative tie and white shirt.  You could easily get away with a dark, light weight suit.  Just make sure it’s well tailored and a muted (if any) pattern.

Asking someone to wear a full tux at 1pm in Georgia in July, for example, is grounds for immediate imprisonment.   But if it’s Manhattan, you’re inside the whole time, and the event concludes at 5 in November… wear a tux.[/quote]

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