My first kilt is in on its way to my doorstep as we speak. (Jonesing in process)

While my motivation for buying it was otherwise, the timing worked out such that I was hoping to take it out for its first public appearance at the upcoming wedding of some good family friends. While talking with my parents recently I mentioned my plan and they were quite genuinely surprised, which surprised me. (part of my plan was for my son to wear his kilt which is arriving at the same time as mine) They indicated that it would be too attention-grabbing and detract from focus on the bride and groom.

Hmmm, I thought.

So I talked about it with my wife at home and she called some other friends to take a random survey to see what they thought. After confirming that the wedding was not a Scottish/Irish wedding they both thought it a bit much, too.

Hmmm, not good, I thought.

Got an email from someone else who knows the family friends and she thought it would all be fine.

Well, what to do, what to do? I thought.

So here I am soliciting thoughts from you all. Now, I'm not so foolish as to ask a kilt-wearing forum with international membership whether the kilt is appropriate for weddings. Your membership is an answer itself. What I am particularly curious about is anyone's experience at public events being the only one kilted where it turned out it was not deemed appropriate. And further, this would be in a North American (U.S. in particular--I think there's more latitude in Canada than down here) context. Normally I might just wear it anyway, but in this case I want to do my utmost to honor my friends above myself (which I thought I was doing by opting to wear a kilt). My wife is unsure of the value of soliciting opinions from people so obviously in favor of kilts. But I'm really after responses from people's outside the kilt-wearing community to your kilt wearing in non-"Scottish/Irish" functions. I have no experience and so I'd appreciate yours.