A kilty wedding...

[Jock Scot]

It's perhaps interesting that I see them the opposite way around. Perhaps that reflects the difference between highland and lowland ways of doing things?

Not that long ago there was quite a trend of wearing dinner suits (Tux) at weddings anyway so a daytime Tux has a precedent set for weddings, certainly on the Glasgow side. For really formal white tie I would personally prefer a doublet

Just because people either knowingly ,or unknowingly flout a convention does not make what they do right. Is it, in this case, earth shatteringly important? No of course not!

As I have said in this case, the damage has been done and I have no doubt that a "new convention" is in the making, based, I am afraid to say, on ignorance. I think it is rather a shame, but there we go.

[Paul Henry]

Just because people either knowingly ,or unknowingly flout a convention does not make what they do right. Is it, in this case, earth shatteringly important? No of course not!

As I have said in this case, the damage has been done and I have no doubt that a "new convention" is in the making, based, I am afraid to say, on ignorance. I think it is rather a shame, but there we go.

Words , and the use of them can be very emotive, and the use of the word "damage" is very strong, and likewise the phrase " unknowingly flout a convention does not make what they do right" . You might not like, or approve, or think of it as traditional, but as you say often, it is only your opinon, just as it is the option of those that make those changes so to do.

[Jock Scot]

Words , and the use of them can be very emotive, and the use of the word "damage" is very strong, and likewise the phrase " unknowingly flout a convention does not make what they do right" . You might not like, or approve, or think of it as traditional, but as you say often, it is only your opinon, just as it is the option of those that make those changes so to do.

Oh come off it Paul! I have said----clearly----that there is a new convention in the making . It matters not one jot what I think, as people are voting with their wallet and are choosing to do something else, we are on the cusp of a change and I have said so. I have also voiced an opinion----my opinon, no one else's---- that it is rather a shame that this convention is changing, but there we go.

[Paul Henry]

Oh come off it Paul! I have said----clearly----that there is a new convention in the making . It matters not one jot what I think, as people are voting with their wallet and are choosing to do something else, we are on the cusp of a change and I have said so. I have all so voiced an opinion----my opinon, no one else's---- that it is rather a shame, but there we go.

You have indeed made my point for me, it doesn't matter very much at all, all that is important is that people can make changes without being told they are wrong.
Change is a normal and natural part of life, of all our lives,when I was a boy computers hardly existed, and when you were a boy..... and today we can engage in all sorts of fora,and have all sorts of discussions, and have almost immediate contact and responses. Change isn't always bad, it often is just different, and often we can become frightened by it, when really we should be interested and open to see what new things there are, we might not always like the changes, but that I am afraid is what change is all about, we do not live in the past.