Scottish Wedding, Winter wedding with Scottish theme

I'm trying to plan a Scottish wedding for this coming January. We have picked are colors as red and green for the holiday season. We have at least one piper maybe two of them. We also have a celtic, folk band for the reception.

I would like to design the wedding invitations and program myself and maybe print it myself also. So need help with this and finding designs to put on the invitations.

Also would like any advice about things to make the wedding more Scottish. I will be in a kilt with prince charlie jacket and my groomsmen and maybe ushers will be also.

Thanks,
Jedibowers

II would do a check on Scot Weddings, find a group that organizes weddings and pick a good one. Then check out their ideas. You can pick and choose what you like from their plans.

Slàinte,    

Patch    

I have a Scottish wedding book around here somewhere...wonder if I can find it without tearing the house apart.

You file things like I do!

Two of the traditions that I was told when I married, oh so many moons ago, was after the ceremony a horseshoe was given to the bride before she left the church for good luck. The other was being handcuffed to my bride for the reception meal as an indication of bring bound together for life.

Hey there...you know 2 southern Illinois women who will keep their fingers crossed for one of those invitations don't you??? How are you and the bride to be doing? How did she like our pictures... Between us, we got the two of you from both sides...Is the Celtic band that you have for the reception...Highland Reign?

Yes two invitations will be heading southwest from here. Yes she and I liked the pictures. Thats so much. The band is Hogeye Navvy with Mac, Dmiti, and Deb playing during the ceremony at the moment. Hoping to have Les and Patrick join the party, not sure how much they will charge per person. The bride to be wants the pirate song played during the reception and yes the whole version. Something about the shock value.

My problem is, I'm painting the inside of the house and my books are piled here...then there...then over there...then upstairs...then downstairs...

I think I have it narrowed down to the dining room and my bedroom. LOL

I seem to remember reading that the piper plays before the cutting of the cake, then hands a dirk to the bride to cut it -- and the groom places a hand over hers. The horseshoe is given to the bride as a fertility symbol (which I guess is considered good luck, at least for some. )

That is exactly how we did it back in 2003 including the six pence in her shoe...........it was a really perfect wedding!!

Cool. I think we are planning to be piped into the reception and then cut the cake and have toasts at that time. So that during dinner, the cake an be taken apart and cut. I like the idea of cutting the cake with the dirk. I think I had read that somewhere, but had forgotten about it. So that would also save on buying stuff to cut the cake.

Just so happens that this month's Scotland Magazine has a article on Scottish wedding traditions:
1. Wedding scramble-bride steps into car,father throws a handful of coins to children,brings finacial luck.

2.Sixpence in bride's shoe or sprig of heather hidden in bride's bouquet to bring her good luck.

Here's one I think you might like. I will enter it word for word: Some of the older customs involved practices such as creeling, where the bridegroom had to carry a large basket filled with stones on his back around the entire town unless the bride agreed to kiss him, or "blacking" where the unlucky groom-to-be is captured by his friends,stripped to the waist,bound and blackened by using substances such as feathers,treacie,soot and flour! He is then paraded though the village whilst his friends make as much noise as possible.

If you do chose to use the last one pleaes have a picture posted as maybe some of us would enjoy seeing that.

Pictures are up now....................

Lovely pictures!

That's a very elegant white sporran -- rabbit?

Yes it is.