A Highland Wedding.

[Birddog]

Great report, with an eye for the details! Very informative. I find the all leather day sporrans interesting. I wonder if this was just a choice for this wedding, or if it might indicate a trend.

[starbkjrus]

The service was at 1630hrs( by a waterfall) and then proceeded from there. I have just driven past the barn and it is still going on!

Now this sounds like my kind of wedding!


Thanks for the info, Jock.

[Hamish]

A perfect description of a wonderful occasion, Jock. The choices of clothing as worn by the men are just as I would have expected for a day-time country wedding - tweed jackets (with horn rather than silver buttons) and all-leather day sporrans. I have long been of the opinion that day sporrans should be of plain leather, not fur fronted.

Ghillie brogues (ghastly things!) should be seen only after twilight or with full dress wear, certainly not with tweeds!

These are my opinions, of course, but they also reflect the traditional etiquetteI was brought up to follow over 50 years ago. So often nowadays, one sees weddings where the men are so overdressed they resemble Christmas trees. Such a shame - there is beauty in simplicity!

Take care,
Ham.

[PS: I am still in Welsh Wales, enjoying Derek and Elaine's warm hospitality. Fortunately, they have now stopped giving me all those domestic chores - of which there will be plenty of my own when I return home!!]

[JSFMACLJR]

Thanks, Jock. Your experience fits mine too. I've been to one of those weddings.

Just to show folks, here is what I wore to my brother's wedding not too long ago:

[Darkislander]

Thanks, Jock. Your experience fits mine too. I've been to one of those weddings.

Just to show folks, here is what I wore to my brother's wedding not too long ago:

That is real classy.

[Jock Scot]

Great report, with an eye for the details! Very informative. I find the all leather day sporrans interesting. I wonder if this was just a choice for this wedding, or if it might indicate a trend.

The leather day sporran is standard practice up here as is the tweed Argyll which does for everything from BBQ's to meeting the Queen. I think the tweed Argyll bit all goes back to the days of no central heating, no double glaizing, draughts and continual damp in the Highland houses(there are still plenty of places like that!) so people wore the warmest thing they could find----tweed.Common sense above fashion and it has stuck up here! So, no need for fancy sporrans! In fact we, up here, don't go in for all this agonising over what goes with that and what time of day or night the event will be----- its tweed and leather sporran------out of the Highlands a wee tad more "head bending" is required!

Sorry McMurdo, I thought that it would not be right to take and publish pictures of people who had not consented to that.

[McMurdo]

Sorry McMurdo, I thought that it would not be right to take and publish pictures of people who had not consented to that.

I completly understand, thank you again for the wonderful discriptions though.