wedding guest attire

[shawhighlander]

Ask the couple for clarification...

A 'dressy casual' look I like: Kilt, white dress shirt unbuttoned (sleevs rolled up two rolls with width of the cuff / no tie), black vest, hose, flashes, semi dress sporran.

Me thinks Rocky is a'right...I have actually "been there-done that", even asked the bride & groom and somehow outdid'em both. OOOPS! I was new to kilting and had actually made most of my outfit from altered thrift store finds. The moral of the story is: the kilt is such 'eye candy' to the viewer, that it would be easy to out-do the others. Dress it down, Aye.

[Dave K]

What would be the minimum one would wear to a wedding while still wearing a kilt? At what point is a kilt out of place?

[Geoff Withnell]

What would be the minimum one would wear to a wedding while still wearing a kilt? At what point is a kilt out of place?

The kilt is out of place (especially at a wedding) if is becomes more the focus of attention than the bride and groom. If asked by the bride to wear the kilt, as in the OP's case, this should only happen if you go completely over the top.

Geoff Withnell

[kypnkilt]

Well...since I wear the same tartan-kilt, I have worn it to 2 weddings in the past year. At my daughters wedding I was formal dressed minus the PC jacket. It was a August wedding outside with barely any shade. I had on a white dress shirt and a dark charcoal waist coat with a formal sporran, white hose and ghillies. The other wedding was "casual". Instead of wearing a Lovat green Jacobite shirt I found a dress shirt that was close to the same color with no vest and wore my regular leather sporran. Lovat green hose and shoes. I have found that wearing the Crawford modern means never wear any maroon colored shirts or hose, that to me looks awful. However, darker greens, grays (dark and light) and off white does well. Black (or charcoal) is OK too, just not sure if that is OK for weddings.

I would definitely ask the bride what she may consider "too much" and what exactly is "casual" in her mind. I have also been told that no matter how grand and formal or casual a wedding is, the "only guy in the kilt there" will get noticed.