Wedding Wear

[The Wizard of BC]

When the invitation arrives, and you prepare to attend, please remember that there is one un-breakable, inviolable rule of wearing the Kilt at a wedding.

Never, ever, outshine the bride!!!!!!!!

With all the accoutrements and the flash of Tartan is does not take much to become the only focus of attention.

My advice is to keep everything toned down and as subtle as possible.

[Standard]

I'd say Jock is spot on. Also, I assume that your sister is expecting you to wear your kilt, but how about the other two weddings? You say that the second wedding will have lots of national dress from different cultures, so the kilt should be fine, but I'd leave off the fly plaid myself. As for the third wedding, you might have your girlfriend inquire of the bride about your wearing a kilt, no sense in "rocking the boat" as it were.

[Bugbear]

When the invitation arrives, and you prepare to attend, please remember that there is one un-breakable, inviolable rule of wearing the Kilt at a wedding.

Never, ever, outshine the bride!!!!!!!!

With all the accoutrements and the flash of Tartan is does not take much to become the only focus of attention.

My advice is to keep everything toned down and as subtle as possible.

That's probably a good idea, but I was just thinking about this subject because of another thread. I'm not sure you should be outshining the groom either.

Anyway, I was thinking how nice tartan or argyle hose might look with a daywear outfit in this case, but would that be too flashy for a guest to wear?

[creagdhubh]

That's probably a good idea, but I was just thinking about this subject because of another thread. I'm not sure you should be outshining the groom either.

Anyway, I was thinking how nice tartan or argyle hose might look with a daywear outfit in this case, but would that be too flashy for a guest to wear?

With the wearing of either the black barathea Argyll jacket with matching waistcoat, or the tweed jacket with matching waistcoat, I would opt not to wear tartan or diced hose with either of the two mentioned jacket styles. I would go for a dark, solid colored hose...perhaps black, grey variations, claret, bottle green, purple, navy blue, etc. Basically any darker shade of kilt hose that will tone well with the kilt.

[slohairt]

That's probably a good idea, but I was just thinking about this subject because of another thread. I'm not sure you should be outshining the groom either.

Anyway, I was thinking how nice tartan or argyle hose might look with a daywear outfit in this case, but would that be too flashy for a guest to wear?

I think it would look fine if everything else (i.e. accessories) was suitably understated. The real reason tartan or diced hose are generally reserved for evening wear is the high expense.

[Bugbear]

I think it would look fine if everything else (i.e. accessories) was suitably understated. The real reason tartan or diced hose are generally reserved for evening wear is the high expense.

Ultimately, I had in my mind the outfit of the groom And now that I have thought about it for a while, I think the groom, wearing tartan hose and a dress argyle, would be quite sharp.