Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
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I have never been to an evening wedding service in the UK, do they happen here? <snip>
On a sample of one, Jock, sort of... I should preface this by saying that I've only ever been to a handful of kilted weddings, so this is not statistically valid!

The "sort of" was a late afternoon wedding near Perth (can't remember the village, it was nearly half a century ago!) and the reception took the form of a Scottish supper, not unlike Burns' Night, that went on, with a dance following, into the wee small hours. Argyles were the most common jackets, as I recall.

But all the others I've been to have been late morning/afternoon weddings and a casual jacket was the order of the day.

I wonder if some if the "evening dress weddings" we see are an attempt to "invent" an equivalent of a Saxon morning dress wedding with top hat and tails? Perhaps more likely, as you say, a figment of the hire companies' imagination!