Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
I am not trying to be obtuse, or contentious, I am just trying to understand, but why are you trying to "...match in with the wedding..."? You are already standing out from the crowd, how is a cummerbund, or any other form of "camouflage", going to tone down your appearance? Why should you even want to match any one? None of the wedding guests will want to "match" you, surely? They have their own wedding attire that is probably an entirely different style altogether.
It's not about the wedding guests, but the men in the wedding party, who all have matching rented outfits. As the piper I'm sort of part of the wedding party in that I'm often standing up at the front with the rest during the ceremony, I'm seen in the wedding photos, etc.

As I've mentioned before, brides here are usually obsessive about having everything matching, and they very much appreciate it when the piper takes the trouble to not clash.

It's why so many pipers around here, the ones who play weddings anyhow, have bought plain black kilts, or Black Isle kilts, or other dark/neutral kilts. Black jacket, black hose, black kilt equals happy bride.

Perhaps it's not like this elsewhere, but here the entire wedding party, including the parents and oftentimes other relatives, are all colour-coordinated. On rare occasions the wedding invitations even specify colours to be worn or avoided by the guests.