Now, I am a very happily married man. I had a wonderful wedding day, and wouldn’t want to change a thing. Except, well maybe….. I recently attend the happy event of a couple of friends, who had hired a wedding piper to provide something extra for their happy day. Now it’s not something I had thought of before - we just had my iPod for the “walking down the aisle” bit, and I guess it’s a bit different having a wedding piper in Glasgow as opposed to south of the border. Or is it?
I mean, when you think about it, bagpipes are played all over the world now, whether people have Scottish heritage or not. They certainly add a certain gravitas to an occasion, but not in an overbearingly serious way. Maybe it’s as I’m getting older, but I really like the sound, it’s just not something you hear very often (not where I live anyway!). It definitely makes a difference to organ music, although I didn’t get married in a church, so I didn’t have that anyay.
At the end of my speech as a groom, there was a surprise appearance from Barry White (well, a Barry White impersonator), but that’s not quite bagpipes is it?
Ok, so I’m not likely to get divorced, but part of me thinks it would have been pretty cool to have a wedding piper on my special day.
Just not sure whether my wife would have married me if I’d been wearing a kilt!