Your Favorite Kilted Memory

[Panache]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Here's one you might have to think about.

Thinking back on those times you have worn your kilt, what is your favorite / fondest memory?

Is it a wedding? A pub crawl? A Burns Night Supper? Being at a special place?

It doesn't matter if it is formal or casual, modern or traditional.

What is your favorite kilted memory?

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[crboltz]

I'm not sure the kilt necessarily had much to do with it, but the best memory I have in one of my kilts is my wedding day.

But frankly, any day in a kilt is a pretty good day.

Cheers Chris

[Macman]

I had my first kilt made 35 years ago (when I was 19) and I used to wear it out to parties, pubs, dinners, etc. quite regularly. The kilt is still in the family. Some of my fondest memories are while I was in that kilt, but this is a family-friendly site.

Sooooo, seriously, I would say that getting married to my wife Anna in a new kilt 6 years and 2 days ago is my favourite kilted memory. Second place would be piping my son and his bride into their wedding reception just over a month ago.

[McMurdo]

I'd say my favourite kilted memory far above any other would be getting married to Catherine on 25th of July

[Piper]

Its a tough call, but I think I have to go with the Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk, which I hope to be able to get to again this year.

[Rollo]

My favourite kilted memory is the last birthday celebration of my son Sigismond.

[starbkjrus]

There have been a lot of kilted good times both here and abroad but I think my favorite kilted memory is of the night of the 2007 Ferintosh Burns Supper. It was a great leap for me to actually travel 4000 miles to a strange country to sit down to dinner with 14 total strangers.

That trip changed my perspective on the world.

Not to mention created some good friendships that are ongoing. I've been back to Ferintosh (and other UK / European spots) several times since but that first trip was magic.

[jeremy j starche]

I'd have three "favorite" memories in a kilt.

The first time I wore a kilt -- a box pleated solid black kilt. It was a light-weight saxony wool, but wonderfully comfortable in the summer. Wore it to near tatters. Still have it ...

Piping at my mom's funeral. My first time wearing a tank. It was rented [Black Stwart], because mine hadn't come in by then.

Piping for my sister's wedding, leading the processional out. I also led her and her husband through the Quaich ceremony.

[Stratherrick]

My most memorable kilted moment...March, 2002, strapping on my one and only kilt and climbing up a mountainside to scatter my dad's ashes on the wind down the family glen, having worn it for the first time in my life to deliver the eulogy at his funeral a few short days before.

A long second was wearing my kilt and joining the Tartan Army walking from Glasgow city centre out to Hampden to see my first Scotland football match at the national stadium...and we won! The noise went something like this, though this was an away game in Paris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGVCjf6B8c

Other than those two...my handfasting, my first Hogmanay in Edinburgh etc, etc.

Slainte

Bruce

[piperdown]

I have to echo the wedding day....but wearing the band kilt for the first time was a close second!!!