Pipers! I need help once more

[Jack Daw]

I'm surprised no one has suggested the pbvious solution if you want inexpensive piping at your wedding. Get married at the Milwaukee Highland Games!! You can get a whole pipe band for the price of beer that way.

LOL! Actually, while performing with the Reddshanks Jacobite Re-enactment Group at the Kilgore Highland Games a few years ago, I was asked to pipe at a wedding that was scheduled to be held within just a few minutes on the festival grounds. Now, I play for free for friends and sometimes as a form of promotion, but I didn't know these people and none would be hiring me for future gigs so far from my home. So, I told them my rate, which was reasonable, but I was given a cold stare as if I had some audacity to ask for payment. I still attended the ceremony, and it was the only time I ever got to wear a great kilt to a wedding. No piper played.