Well gents, after many long discussions (fun ones, she's loving all this), we've made some decisions. My original plan of the Montrose won the honors. This look:
With a cravat in place of the bow tie is almost
exactly the look I was going for. My bride to be is absolutely in love with the idea, as we have very similar taste in this regard.
The day in question is still not set, and will probably be in the summer of 2011, so it'll be a while before I actually have the doublet in hand to post pics. But I will, months before hand, so I can get any last minute tips from the rabble here.
Other decisions we made:
Cross belts w/ sword. This one was actually the idea of my best man. We served together in Iraq twice, and he has not one drop of Celtic blood in him. Basically the conversation went like this:
Me: Matt, I want you to be my best man. And you get to wear a kilt!
Him, after giving it a some thought for a few seconds: Alright, I'll wear a kilt, but you have to let me wear a sword.
Since my groomsmen were all Marines, and we all were in combat together, it seemed only fitting to wear our NCO swords (all three of us were Sergeants when we got out). We polled our old unit, and some former Marines we all knew, and it was decided that, while NCO swords aren't really
meant to be worn in this manner, with this attire, we're using them in a respectful way, in the
spirit for which they're still used. But the best bit came from a salty old Vietnam veteran we know, "You boys earned your damn blood stripes... just wear the things if that's what you want."
So I already bought the cross belts, and I'm having the buckles refinished in silver (the finish they came with looked incredibly cheap... it seriously looked like painted plastic) by the local jeweler.
AND, for the final piece of my update here, to hold my fly paid in place, I'm having a custom brooch made by Don McKee. At the start of my career, I was a cannon crewman on a Howitzer. Even though I was a rifleman later on, I still tell people my primary MOS was Artillery, and wanted to give homage to that. So I'm having Don reproduce this for me:
It won't say Washington's Artillery on it, but I think it's PERFECT for this, and so agrees Sue, my bride to be.
Anyway, thoughts? Opinions? Advice?
The rabble has already given me MUCH more information in general than I hoped for, so I thought we should continue that.
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