s wedding dress to imply that she is now a member of his clan. Later on the wedding reception will be held.custom that has been followed for more than 700 years is the custom of the groom carrying his new bride over the doorstep of their new home together. This ritual is considered to keep evil spirits from entering his wife through her feet.
Scottish clothing
The term Highland dress describes the traditional dress <#"justify">Kilt
The kilt is a knee-length garment <#"justify">Sporran
The Sporran is a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress <#"justify">"Day Sporrans" are usually brown leather pouches with simple adornment. These "day" sporrans often have three or more leather tassels and frequently Celtic knot <#"justify">"Dress Sporrans" can be larger than the day variety, and are often highly ornate. Victorian examples were usually quite ostentatious, and much more elaborate than the simple leather pouch of the 17th or 18th centuries. They can have sterling or silver-plated cantles <#"justify">"Animal Mask Sporrans" are made from the pelts of mammals such as the badger, otter, fox, pine marten, or other small animals, with the head forming a flap that folds over the front and closes the opening at the top of the sporran.
"Horsehair Sporrans" are most often worn as a part of regimental attire. Pipers <#"justify">Sgian-dubh
The sgian-dubh is a small, singled-edged knife <#"justify">Balmoral
The Balmoral (more fully the Balmoral bonnet <#"justify">Originally with a voluminous crown, today the bonnet is smaller, made of finer cloth and tends to be dark blue, black or lovat green. Ribbons in, or attached to the back of, the band (originally used to secure the bonnet tightly) are sometimes worn hanging from the back of the cap. A regimental or clan badge is worn on the left-hand side, affixed to a silk <#"justify">scottish weddings kilt sporran
The Great Highland Bagpipe
The Great Highland Bagpipe (Scottish Gaelic <#"justify">ìob mhòr; often abbreviated GHB in English) is a type of bagpipe <#"justify">♭. Although less so now, depending on the tuning of the player, certain notes are tuned slightly off just intonation <#"justify">ìobaireachd simply means "pipe music", but it has been adapted into English as piobaireachd <#"justify">òl mòr, and "light music" (such as marches and dance tunes) is referred to as ceòl beag.òl mòr consists of a slow "ground" movement (Gaelic ùrlar) which is a simple theme, then a series of increasingly complex variations on this theme, and ends with a return to the ground. Ceòl Beag includes marches (2/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, etc), dance tunes (particularly strathspeys, reels, hornpipes, and jigs), slow airs, and more. The ceòl mòr style was developed by the well-patronized dynasties of bagpipers - MacArthurs, MacGregors <#"justify">ìobaireachd, for example the dare, vedare, chedare, darado, taorluath and crunluath. Some of these embellishments have found their way into light music over the course of the 20th century. These embellishments are also used for note emphasis, for example to emphasize the beat note or other phrasing <#"justify">"Few attempts have been made hitherto to combine the bagpipes with classical orchestral instruments, due mainly to conflicts of balance and tuning," said composer Graham Waterhouse <#"justify">s Salute op. 34a for Great Highland Bagpipe and String Orchestra (2001). "A satisfactory balance was achieved in this piece by placing the piper at a distance from the orchestra."[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe> Peter Maxwell Davies' Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise (1985) also features a GHB solo towards the end.GHB plays a role as both a solo and ensemble instrument. In ensembles, it is generally played as part of a pipe band. One notable form of solo employment is the position of Piper to the Sovereign <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_to_the_Sovereign>, a piper tasked to perform for the British sovereign, a position dating back to the time of Queen Victoria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria>.GHB is widely used by both soloists and pipe bands <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_band> civilian and military, and is now played in countries around the world. It is particularly popular in areas with large Scottish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people> and Irish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora> emigrant populations, mainly England <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England>, Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada>, United States of America <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America>, Australia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia>, New Zealand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand> and South Africa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa>.