Here's a question for fellow ordained clerics here. I'm invited to a special black tie dinner in a few weeks time and I had planned to just wear a collar and black bow tie. However, they are insisting I wear a clerical collar as I am their chaplain. If it were an informal affair I would just wear a normal clerical shirt but I do not really like the black against black effect that creates so I am now planning on wearing a white formal marcella tunic shirt, complete with dress studs, and a clerical collar attached

Has anyone else done it this way before. How usual/popular is it?