How important is a belt?

[Newfoundlander]

Wow, quite a lot of smart looking lad in the pictures here!

I find myself in between the two camps of bet or no-belt. If I'm wearing formal attire than I always wear a belt with my price charlie, but that's largely because I think it adds to the look nicely. Now if I'm in a rugby shirt, or even in a nice shirt and knit sweater on a date or something, I never wear a belt because of the bulge the buckle makes. So, I guess I usually only wear it for the look more so than the functionality.

That being said, the belt I have is plain smooth black leather, and the buckle is a pewter buckle from L&M Highland, and my sporran is a plain black leather with celtic engraving. So it's kind of an understated look anyway since there's no gleaming chrome.

As for the wedding your attending. Unless you feel your going to get a lot of use from the formal sporran and belt I wouldn't invest in them. I'd invest in a good bottle of Macallan instead =) One thing I've done in the past is gone to a kilt hire shop and rented a formal sporran and belt for the night for only a few dollars. If you don't need it very often, that might be a better use of your cash.