Fly Plaid and boutonniere?

[TheDev]

For a formal occasion, does one wear a boutonniere even if they have a fly plaid? I am under the impression it is not done, but my fiancee is really pushing me to wear it. When I showed her pictures of men without the boutonniere, she said "ok, you tell my aunt you aren't wearing the boutonniere she made."

What is the standard?

[Kerr the Walker]

"ok, you tell my aunt you aren't wearing the boutonniere she made."

That'd be my gauge right there my friend.

Sounds like it might torque off your lady and her aunt.

Two females mad at me? No thanks.

Good luck!

[svc40bt]

Sounds like no fly plaid to me.

[McMurdo]

I tend to think that a fly plaid is just a wee bit over the top, if it were me I'd wear the boutonniere without the fly plaid.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

110% with McMurdo on this one. The extra 10% is because I think the fly plaid would be waaay over the top, not just a wee bit over the top.

[TheDev]

Well, the fly plaid is for my wedding, or I wouldn't be wearing it. On this one occasion, I decided to just go for it.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Well then, okay. If you are getting married all bets are off, and the rules of the well-dressed gentleman go out the window. When my friend Dickie Macmillan-Fox got married it was "Red Nose Day" and his loon of a wife-to-be wanted everyone to wear red noses. Only the last minute intervention by the C of E Vicar, who happened to be a tough as boot leather ex-Royal Marine commando, prevented my having to stand up next to Dickie wearing a red neoprene ball stuck on my nose. Well, that and the fact that Dickie bolted the morning of the wedding.

Anyway, as we say in my part of the world,
"Lang may yer lum reek".

[Arlen]

It's perfectly possible to wear both.
If it is your own wedding then the fly plaid is fine. You simply wear the buttonhole on the other lapel or tucked into the brooch you are fastening your fly plaid with.

At my sister's wedding she requested that all male guests wore the plaid and buttonhhole and everyone looked just fine.


Congratulations, by the way.

[arrg-isle]

I married off both my sons this past year (both in their 20's, neither of them kilties yet)) and I'll share with you the advice I gave both of them: remember just whose Big Day it is! In other words, go ahead and listen to everybody's urging, and ideas, and recommendations, but make sure when all is said & done, that the event goes the way that you & the bride want it to, because it's your Wedding & nobody else's!
My old Uncle Hollis used to opine that there's only 3 kinds of people at a wedding - the Bride, the Groom, and a whole big crowd of Spectators!

[Highlander31]

I married off both my sons this past year (both in their 20's, neither of them kilties yet)) and I'll share with you the advice I gave both of them: remember just whose Big Day it is! In other words, go ahead and listen to everybody's urging, and ideas, and recommendations, but make sure when all is said & done, that the event goes the way that you & the bride want it to, because it's your Wedding & nobody else's!
My old Uncle Hollis used to opine that there's only 3 kinds of people at a wedding - the Bride, the Groom, and a whole big crowd of Spectators!

I agree, it's your day. The only thing that matters is what you and your bride want.