Your SCD pics

[McGurk]

I'm sorry, I cant call it scotish country dancing, it was a ceilidh, and thats what its always been called to me, from childhood.

To be honest, I find it really difficult to associate ceilidhs with scotland or ireland any anything celtic. The band that played for my wedding where the ones who played most of the ceilidhs when I was younger, and EVERY one I went to, it was a geordie band with a geordie caller, so to me, there's northing more geordie then a ceilidh!

Anyways, here's me geordie ceilidh at ma wedding!

[Phil]

Looks like a great ceilidh and you could post one of those pics in the windy thread. Are there more kiltie weddings down your way nowadays? When I was in Alnwick last year there was one going on and a whole lot in kilts then. Ceilidhs I find a lot more fun than country dancing where you get into bother if you put a foot wrong. Half the fun I think is getting newcomers up and helping them through a reel. They always seem to enjoy it and fun is what it's all about isn't it?

[McGurk]

Looks like a great ceilidh and you could post one of those pics in the windy thread. Are there more kiltie weddings down your way nowadays? When I was in Alnwick last year there was one going on and a whole lot in kilts then. Ceilidhs I find a lot more fun than country dancing where you get into bother if you put a foot wrong. Half the fun I think is getting newcomers up and helping them through a reel. They always seem to enjoy it and fun is what it's all about isn't it?

When I was planning the wedding, I was expecting to be fairly unique in being in a kilt around here. In my home town (South Tyneside) It would have been fairly unique, but around here, there's actualy quite a few weddings where kilts are worn. (but still, its a minority.) I'll be going to a cousins wedding in north yorkshire, and I expect I'll be the only one in a kilt!

In reality, there is no cultural border between england and scotland, its just a gentle gradient between edinburgh being mainly scotish and york being mainly english.

I agree entirely about the Ceilids, being more fun. That was the whole reason we had one at the wedding. I dont enjoy discos, but always loved ceilidhs when I was younger. It ment everyone was in the same boat, noone knew how the dances went, so no one could use it as an excuse for not dancing!

Everyone had a great time (even one very shy and quiet girl got up to dance and had a great time, which stunned me because I was sure she'd spend the whole night being miserable!) and people where saying, we'd have to find an excuse to do it again!