Day and evening sporrans

[bwat]

However as I've said before I've been hired to pipe at daytime weddings here in which one entire side of the family has flown over from Scotland for the event and the Scotsmen are all in black Prince Charlies or black Argylls with fur sporrans, leaving myself, if wearing Day Dress, somewhat out of step.

That's how it is most often done in Scotland. The typical kilted Scottish wedding is in the "kilt hire" style. I would guess that to the Scots at that wedding you probably looked like you weren't making much of an effort but "a nice try for an American." Of course we all know you've forgotten more about highland dress than the average Scot will ever learn, but that's the situation today. The highland dress as seen through the kilt-hire-filter has been adopted as appropriate wedding attire by Scots from Gretna to the granite city. I think we really should be looking at wedding attire as its own, quite influential, sub-culture.

[CMcG]

Here's a pic and Jock's comment from another thread.

.....I thought that some might find the pictures useful, to show that thank goodness, not all Scots weddings are of the " kilt hire shop" variety these days.

Scots aristocrats, Edmund Salvesen and Abi Elphinstone, at their wedding. Courtesy of the Daily Mail: