....to go to an Irish wedding wearing my kilt the “Scottish” way.

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My wife is demanding pants, but I don’t want to offend, either way?!?!

Aberdeen. No pants under kilts here.

I'm presuming the OP is Scottish..........

I'm getting the impression you don't know the bride & groom very well?? I'd reconsider, I think you'll get the hmm if you rock up as a token guest who isn't Scottish in a kilt, and if you wear nothing under it, I reckon people will definitely think "attention seeking knob"

I tend to agree with this.

I’m Scottish. I don’t know any men who would wear a kilt to a wedding anywhere other than in Scotland unless they were part of the wedding party and the wedding party were wearing them. They wouldn’t wear a kilt to a non-Scottish wedding just as a guest.

Even more for a non-Scottish person to rock up to a non-Scottish wedding in a kilt.

I hear undies with the saltire (Scottish flag) on them are the thing to wear on such occasions to protect your modesty should a small child or nosey woman keek under the kilt, and provide a laugh without offence to anyone of a nervous disposition!

Underwear is also more hygienic should you drink too much Guinness and have a touch of the shits or leak a bit after visiting the urinal while drunk. You don’t want that on a £400 kilt. Lovely thought. Yuk.
Unless of course you prefer to get your kilt dry cleaned after the event and someone else needs to deal with the Guinness residue. However the price of dry cleaning pleats is apparently quite expensive, especially if plastered with shit!

Irish weddings can be very vigorous affairs I’d be worried about chaffing .

Get your pants on. If you manspread your legs nobody will want that view otherwise 🤮

Why would you wear a kilt the Scottish way to a wedding in Ireland when you are neither Scottish or Irish? Weird. And I’m third line Irish and Scottish.

DH never wears underpants beneath his kilt.

He keeps trying to convince little English me that he's a McDonald and he's got a quarter pounder under his kilt...

No one wears no pants under a kilt.

Ah well no consensus then! I find the no pants thing minging 😂

@constantlyseekinghappiness DH wears his kilt outfit to non Scottish weddings, it's the only formal outfit he owns, besides people have requested he wear it in the past. I think it's a bit pompous to have rules about kilt wearing. ( He usually wears pants by the way).

Tje photographer at my wedding took a shot with me and all the kilted men sitting on the staircase at the wedding.

Then took a second shot after telling all the men to rearrange the kilts a touch more modestly.

My dad also was given the contact details for a mobile fake tan lady recommended by the florist - she said there was nothing worse than pale white bahookies being flashed during the ceilidh. (Dad did not have a fake tan, he decided pale bahookie was better than patchy legs.)

Also - remember and put your sports to the side when dancing. Don't want that bashing you about too much when you over enthusiastically dance to Westlife or Country Roads. (I've been to weddings in Cork. All suave and sophisticated and espresso martinis at first then before you know it you're on a dance floor exhausting yourself to Greatest Hits of Westlife. Good luck!)

Sports? sporran !!

every man I know wears underwear under a kilt.

Really?! I've never met anyone who wore anything under their kilt, other than a nappy for the very young.

Her “friends” will try to lift it, apparently?!
I bloody hope you smack away the hand of ANYONE who tries to do that to you.
It's not ok to lift a woman's skirt/dress to expose her private parts and it's NOT ok to do it to a man either.

If a man did that to a woman he'd be vilified, arrested and charged by the police and found guilty by the courts - and have their whole life and employment affected by the consequences.

So why is it 'a laugh' when it's a woman doing it to a man?

38TheCatsACunt My husband got married in a kilt in Ireland We're both Irish. And yes, he wore pants and a good thing too as my tipsy cousin lifted it up to check! 😂😂😂

The Irish have clan tartans just like the Scots, including County tartans. It is incorrect to say Irish kilts are plain, not tartan. Hubby wore the County Antrim tartan when we married, a gorgeous colourful tartan.

Yeah I'm from cork and in my also 30 odd years of attending weddings up and down this country, no one has ever worn a kilt.

And to wear one when it's not the norm would scream "look at me!"

We are always up for a good time, wear something nice with pants, tell everyone you enjoyed the meal and have a good night dancing. That's all you have to do.

Also hello fellow corkonians.

We need to have a meet up some day!

@AgentCooper That cracked me up. My dad was from Greenock (no, he didn't wear kilts).

I think you might be best with tartan pants, saltire pants or some pants which are a bit of a jokey style.
If you don't you are likely to have your undercarriage discussed for the rest of the night and beyond!
Maybe your wife does not want your parts on display to all and sundry

I'm Scottish, my husband never wears pants under his kilt. We're in Perthshire

Go traditional. And have your sgian dubh at the ready to protect your modesty. (How on earth is it considered acceptable for women to molest men in this way?)

The Irish have clan tartans just like the Scots, including County tartans.

No, Irish clans do not have tartans. Some Ulster Scots families in NI use their Scottish tartans, but then they often wouldn't want to be described as Irish in the first place.

Irish Gaelic clans did not historically have tartans. Checked patterns were used by fashion and personal taste but there was no such thing as a clan tartan in an Irish context.

Irish counties do have colours, but they come from the GAA. Working them into tartan patterns is a late 20th century invention directed at tourists.

It is incorrect to say Irish kilts are plain, not tartan. Hubby wore the County Antrim tartan when we married, a gorgeous colourful tartan.

I'm sure it was lovely. You can make a kilt out of whatever pattern fabric you like. But a kilt in the Antrim colours (saffron and white!) is about as culturally meaningful as a t-shirt in the Antrim colours.