Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Crumbs! I ask this purely out of interest, Why insist on wearing ghillie brogues? Surely any appropriate shoes would be suitable? If someone suggested that I had to wear those dreadful ghillie things, I would not attend the event. Sorry, as far as I am aware shoes in this part of the world, that choice is left to the discretion of all, for a civilian wedding.
Ah, but you see, it wasn't the groom, but the bride who was, in what I believe is a proper Scottish term, a real beastie. I very nearly refused to be in the wedding party when she dictated that all of us had to be in Black Watch instead of our own tartan even though the groom was wearing his own. Nothing whatsoever against Black Watch, it was just a last minute dictate that sat badly with me. After getting over that insult the choice of shoes didn't even register as an issue. The wedding remains to this day the only one I've ever even heard of where the bride was angrily yelling about things DURING the ceremony