Good advice from both, actually. My own First Time was performing a wedding for a former-Marine friend and occasional student, out under the redwoods. He wanted a "warrior flavor" to it -- all the groomsmen wore Cold Steel Recon Tantos he gave them, for example -- so I decided a kilt would be in order and borrowed one from a Buchanan student of mine for the occasion, which also featured the bride & groom sealing their vows by kissing the blade of my dirk while their rings were stacked on its point.

The moment I put that kilt on, I was hooked.

But I'm glad my first time was a NSA kind of thing (No Strings Attached). What if I'd plonked down several hundred bucks, only to find kilts just weren't really for me?

After that experience, though, I did go ahead and get the best wool tartan kilt (in my own ancestral sett) I could afford at the time.