Pink Kilt...?

[Thistle Stop]

Girls are brought up to believe the wedding day is THE biggest day, the MOST important day of a woman's life. Most girls have dreamt about their weddings for years, planning every detail, poring over the bridal magazines, dressing their dollies as brides. This is one time a loving fiance really should humour her little whims, IMHO. Her wedding day is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream -- let her dream come true. Make her dream come true. Be a dream-come-true guy. Reality will rear its ugly head soon enough!

Yes, it is an important day for both the bride and the groom, of course. And I, personally, think trying to coordinate kilts with the bridemaids' dresses and other decorations isn't necessary -- it's certainly not traditional. The normal thing is for the men to all wear their own tartans, or failing that, a fairly neutral tartan like Black Watch. If any of the kilts will be rented/hired, rather than bought, nothing very exotic, and certainly nothing in pink, will be found anywhere in the U.S. With 9 tartan choices, we probably have one of the more extensive kilt rental/hire ranges in North America, but nary a pink tartan amongst them. The closest thing to pink we have for hire is MacLean of Duart (a lighter shade of red is the predominant colour). Most shops offer Black Watch and/or Royal Stewart, and a couple more choices, at most. To have kilts made for all the groomsmen gets quite expensive. It would look much, much better to rent good-quality worsted wool kilts in something that wouldn't clash with the pink too badly than to have cheap kilts (i.e., less than 8-yards, and/or made of something other than Scottish worsted wool twill of a suitable weight) in a pinkish tartan.

BUT -- it's her Big Day. So again I say, be sensitive to that, guys! It really, really matters to her, if she's like most girls.

Slainte,

Cyndi