A Highland Wedding.

[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.

[ChattanCat]

It so nice to hear the descripiton of a wedding that is what I would want for a wedding. The waterfall, the barn reception, wonderful. I can picture the wedding and reception in my mind's eye.

Thanks

[Bugbear]

Thanks for sharing this with us, Jock Scot.

[gilmore]

Thanks so much for sharing your observations with us.

If there were about 200 guests, about half of them would have been men, so if 84 were in kilts, more often than not trousers aren't worn to Highland weddings.

[Jock Scot]

Thanks so much for sharing your observations with us.

If there were about 200 guests, about half of them would have been men, so if 84 were in kilts, more often than not trousers aren't worn to Highland weddings.

Yes, this would be a fairly normal kilt wearing percentage at a Highland wedding(around here anyway).There were certainly Australians,English and Germans present and they were not kilted.Did it matter? Not one jot!

Oh and one more thing that I noticed-------not one tartan tie!

In the interests of accuracy, there were 86 kilts on parade!

[pdcorlis]

Wonderful report Jock - you paint a very nice picture. From your description I know I can rest comfortably as it seems all is right with the world.

[Riverkilt]

Wonderful report and reassuring. Thanks.

Guessing there were no ghillies since one can't find them made in a width to fit a Scottish foot anymore.

Ron

[beloitpiper]

Sounds like a classy bunch. Too bad there's no photos! I really do think people in the US get carried away, but then again Americans don't get too many opportunities to wear Highland attire as often as the Scots.