Officiated a wedding in my kilt...some good,-some bad.

[Nighthawk]

I like Ron avoid places where alcohol is consumed. However weddings do present a problem. Ignore your Uncle it sounds as if he is jealous. Just be yourself and everything is usually OK.

Isn't alcohol consumed at Pints? Fibber.

Actually, I tend to try to avoid those situations myself, unless I know the people doing the consuming and trust them. The key is to be around people who can do it responsibly. Sounds good Uncle Earl isn't one of 'em... Don't let one jacka... drunken donkey kill things for you.

[RamsayClanCommish]

Oh he doesn't kill thigs for me. I have nothing but pride when I wear my kilt.

It did get dicey the other night though when at a family gathering, my aunt said she was proud of the job I did at her daughter's wedding. MY uncle-her brother- said, "Can't be proud of a nephew in a dress."

I had had enough by then and decided to finish it.

So I replied, "Well, that is fine. I can't be proud of an uncle who hasn't had a job for 3 years, is living in his sister's spare room, mooched his beer money, and who sleeps with crack whores."

You could have heard a pin drop. ANd I dont think I will be invited to anymore dinners from now on.

[RamsayClanCommish]

BTW...apparently the bride and groom thought it was a great touch to thier wedding and was something not everyone has, so it is all good.

[randal]

I had had enough by then and decided to finish it.

So I replied, "Well, that is fine. I can't be proud of an uncle who hasn't had a job for 3 years, is living in his sister's spare room, mooched his beer money, and who sleeps with crack whores."

You could have heard a pin drop. ANd I dont think I will be invited to anymore dinners from now on.

I believe that is known as verbal Aikido. Good job

[bunchdescendant]

The situations above are the reasons I try to avoid gatherings that are mostly non-kiltie in nature that involves copious amounts of alcohol.

Having a bit o' single malt with my fellow Nor Cal rabble is one thing (which I enjoy) but at a recent Beer night, a drunken lass (non-kiltie but a regular, I think) asked several times what was under the kilt. My kilt to be exact. With my Significant Other about 30 feet away, sitting with the Amazing Madalyn, watching. She even attempted a very poor kilt check.

I guess I should point out she kept calling it a skirt despite my protests. I was hoping to find a reason, however skimpy, to leave that area and the drunken lass. She finally wandered off, only to have a gent (inebriated) ask if I played the bagpipes. I asked him if he knew why the Scottish played the pipes. When he answered that he didn't, I told him it was to scare the hell out of the English right before they killed them in battle!

He found another place to stand after that.

Ray

[BroosterB1]

BTW...apparently the bride and groom thought it was a great touch to thier wedding and was something not everyone has, so it is all good.

And that is what really matters!

Twenty years from now they will remember the wonderful wedding, how dashing you were in your kilt, and what great memories that have about the the whole affair. The pictures of the bride and groom standing in front of the kilted minister will be a family keepsake, and who knows you may be called upon to by others to do the same for them.

Your uncle, should any pictures survive will only be a mere foot note of some one to be pitied, and likely forgotten. Don't think you will not be invited to family affairs, you may, and he may not.

My own nephew took one look at me in my kilt and said "Dude that is sooooo sick! Only My uncle!!" This from a guy who aspires to be a MMA cage fighter. Be more concerned with what the younger ones think rather than what one lonely loudmouth does.

[Tetley]

Oh he doesn't kill thigs for me. I have nothing but pride when I wear my kilt.

It did get dicey the other night though when at a family gathering, my aunt said she was proud of the job I did at her daughter's wedding. MY uncle-her brother- said, "Can't be proud of a nephew in a dress."

I had had enough by then and decided to finish it.

So I replied, "Well, that is fine. I can't be proud of an uncle who hasn't had a job for 3 years, is living in his sister's spare room, mooched his beer money, and who sleeps with crack whores."

You could have heard a pin drop. ANd I dont think I will be invited to anymore dinners from now on.

Touche! Game, set and match to the man in a kilt.

Mark

[Tetley]

The situations above are the reasons I try to avoid gatherings that are mostly non-kiltie in nature that involves copious amounts of alcohol.

Having a bit o' single malt with my fellow Nor Cal rabble is one thing (which I enjoy) but at a recent Beer night, a drunken lass (non-kiltie but a regular, I think) asked several times what was under the kilt. My kilt to be exact. With my Significant Other about 30 feet away, sitting with the Amazing Madalyn, watching. She even attempted a very poor kilt check.

I guess I should point out she kept calling it a skirt despite my protests. I was hoping to find a reason, however skimpy, to leave that area and the drunken lass. She finally wandered off, only to have a gent (inebriated) ask if I played the bagpipes. I asked him if he knew why the Scottish played the pipes. When he answered that he didn't, I told him it was to scare the hell out of the English right before they killed them in battle!

He found another place to stand after that.

Ray

That is also a great touch.

Mark

[Earl D]

Almost every time I wear my tartan kilt, I get some ejit who asks me if I play the pipes. . .

I get that question too. My stock answer nowadays is "I play the tuba and baritone-they're kind of like pipes aren't they?" They either get it or they are left totally confused.

Cheers!

[RamsayClanCommish]

Here I am with the lovely bride.