anon1m0us:
I looked up your source and here is what it says “
Just as a king must always wear a crown, so too it is appropriate that a Chosson wear a felt (not straw!) hat throughout his wedding” (p. 256).
So according to this, the Rov only suggested a hat at the wedding for Chosson Domah L’melech and did NOT require anyone to wear a hat.
Thanks for looking it up. I do not have the sefer, nor do I have easy access to look it up. I do remember that it was there. I may be wrong. There is another sefer that RHS put out where he mentions the hat and jacket story. It might be there.
Either way, even if we say that RJBS only encouraged people to wear a hat for their wedding, it does show that he considered wearing a [felt] hat to be regal. Certainly no complaints to one who would like to constantly feel the “Kol Yisroel Bnei Malochim Ninhu” all of us are princes