Another Wedding Thread

[OC Richard]

...evening event starting at 6:30pm.

That raises a question for me: is the Day/Evening attire choice set by the clock, or by the sun?

As we know in some times of year it can still by daytime at 10pm.

Braemar jacket and vest in Lomond Blue, with Isle of Skye tartan. This will not be a black tie affair, and most other gentleman will be in highland attire.

That sounds lovely to me, but I don't know the Scottish customs as per my first question above.

a sporran will be one of my 4 formal acquisitions (I blame OC Richard.)

Ha!

As a piper I've played for hundreds of weddings here in the USA, and as you know in general here people often wear traditional Evening attire (black tuxedos) for weddings at any time of day.

Likewise for kilted weddings people here in the USA usually wear black Prince Charlies and black bow ties regardless.

The interesting thing is when I've piped at weddings here for which one side of the family has flown over from Scotland for the event, and these men are invariably in black Prince Charlies.

I attribute all of this to the Kilt Hire Industry. Vintage photos show men wearing ordinary Day Dress at daytime weddings, which as I understand has always been the custom in the Highlands.

But I would think that your first step concerning gent's dress would be to find out how the locals would treat an event at 6:30 at the particular time of year your wedding will occur, and also the location whether indoors or outside on the castle's grounds.

I would suppose a summer garden wedding in broad daylight would call for Day Dress, but I don't know the local custom.