Wedding guest: black vs grey tweed Argyll?

[JSFMACLJR]

Still others would say becuse it will be insufferably hot in Virginia in June that you could (notice I said could, not should) get by with wearing just the waistcoat and skip the jacket altogether, like the 'pipe bands I saw last weekend. Any way you go about it, you're going to be rather warm.

Shudder!!!!! Go to a wedding without a coat? I won't answer my own question

Luckily, we have a wonderful invention these days--even (or should I say especially) in the South-- called air conditioning.

[raibeart_dubh]

Being a guest, I would tone it down a notch and go with the tweed. I think I would only wear a black jacket if it didn't have silver buttons. To me that's a little on the flashy side as a guest.

[Bugbear]

Shudder!!!!! Go to a wedding without a coat? I won't answer my own question

Luckily, we have a wonderful invention these days--even (or should I say especially) in the South-- called air conditioning.

There's been talk on the forum of linen jackets for the hot and muggy areas, but over here, in the Phoenix area, sometimes they keep the AC so low that you need a wool jacket when you walk into a building...

[Al Leghany]

My charming wife came home from work this evening with "something she needed me to get out of her car."

An early birthday present to me, just in time for the wedding: a charcoal Lochcarron Argyll jacket! Perfect, and problem solved. How did she know?

Jacket? Check. Kilt? Check. The black belt and understated but elegant plate in place of the waistcoat; black Alden wingtips; have yet to decide on shirt color but leaning toward white; coordinate the hose and tie, add the flashes and call it almost done.

I am thinking rather than either my red fox or calfskin dress sporrans, a Ferguson Britt Duin uasal might finish this off nicely:

http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/...al%20black.JPG

That and my cleverly disguised "converted sgian bottle open it."

A simple but elegant classiness over formality is the goal.

[Highlander31]

My charming wife came home from work this evening with "something she needed me to get out of her car."

An early birthday present to me, just in time for the wedding: a charcoal Lochcarron Argyll jacket! Perfect, and problem solved. How did she know?...

I think they learn to do things like that at wife school. My lovely wife does that as well. For over thirty years, her timing has always been impeccable.

Congratulations on the charcoal jacket. Look forward to hearing how the wedding went.