& the pictures are IN!

[Flavia]

The wedding for which I got my husband into a kilt has finally come & gone! Unfortunately, I was doing the flowers for the wedding & didn't get to take the sort of pictures that I would have taken, but other people did take pictures & I have some. Fairly crappy ones , but beggars can't be whiners (or something like that).

We had a lot of stupid little problems that day, the chief of which being that some idiot (can't imagine WHO THAT could have been! ) forgot to remove the stitches that were keeping the pleats of my son's kilt in place for shipment. Luckily, the best man's skean dhu was in perfect order, & he worked on the one side while I took my son's cute little blade (never did get a picture of that, either) & did the other side. Crisis averted! All we then needed was a pin to hitch up the sporran belt chain so the sporran didn't hit my son in the knees!

The wedding ended up being far smaller & less formal than anyone had expected, so, when push came to shove, there was no need for an usher at all - BUT the groom insisted that my son should "stand up with him" because my son had insisted on wearing a kilt for him. That's the first picture; he's the strawberry blond down right. I have no idea why his jacket was hanging like that; it looked like it was holding itself away from his body in the back - he can't be THAT thin! Can he?


Here's the only 2 shots I have of my husband, who actually didn't grumble at all (except to complain when I told him he was sitting wrong. Should've told him to watch the best man). He's now insisting that he never had any real aversion to wearing one, just never a reason to. Yeah, rolled the eyes really hard on that one!



And yes, I totally made a huge fuss over how great he looked.

The big irony? The wedding was scheduled on the same day our local Ren Faire has Scottish Appreciation Day, so we were actually kept from the one other kilt-wearing occasion we were going to go to by THIS kilt-wearing occasion! (Maybe Irish Appreciation day - we can't be the only ones with an Irish Heritage kilt!)