My favorite restaurants tend to be Itaian delis and pizza joints and rib shacks. But diningisn’t always just about the food. Sometimes a lady likes an excuse to dress up for fine dining, but doesn’t want to look out of place. Wedding receptions ard places where people are expected to dress up, and it doesn’t make them snooty Heck even Scripture requires a proper wedding garment to attend the wedding feast.
See that’s the nice part about living on a city that isn’t snooty. If you want to dress up, you can dress up. If you don’t want to you don’t have to. Nobody looks out of place, nobody is judging, nobody is worried about anybody else.
Depends on the wedding. “Appropriate” has many definitions. I’ve seen people married in SCA garb, biker leathers, hippie tie-dye. It’s a big world. Lotta different people.