tradition

Originally posted at The White Mist.

The señor was discussing appropriate wedding costume with his groomsmaid Miss Golightly when a friend of hers suggested the señor wear a kilt to the wedding.

This is not as unusual as it might initially seem in an international context.  Kilts for ceremonial occasions are close to commonplace in the South Island.  More than half of the señor’s family are of Scots descent, some only one or two generations out from the Auld Country.  And, given how so many of the “traditions” of the modern wedding date from the later nineteenth century, it seems at least synchronous to include another tradition of a similar age.

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