Weddings

A Bagpiper at your wedding is a great way to celebrate your Scottish Heritage. Scottish tradition holds that if the Bride saw a piper before her wedding, she would have a happy marriage.

Roddy the Piper has a vast experience of weddings, playing around 150 each year. He always aims to bring a musical sparkle to your most special day with his award winning bagpipe playing and add some colour to your photos with his highland dress.

Roddy can also provide some toastmaster services to keep a group moving, posing for group photos, going for dinner etc. A skirl on the pipes and a booming voice will get guests moving in the direction you need them to! (please let us know when booking if there are any special announcements.)

Wedding Bagpiper

Ceremony

To make the wedding day memorable from the start, Roddy will greet guests with a lively set of pipe tunes as they arrive for the ceremony. The bride will be greeted (and nerves settled) before being piped in to the ceremony.

Small Pipes can sometimes be played as ceremony music, or as the register is being signed.

Roddy can play the newly married couple back down the aisle. Pipe as guests are leaving, and provide a few tunes while pictures are being taken.

Reception

The bride, groom and guests will be piped into the reception venue, there will be plenty opportunity for photos! If required Roddy can announce dinner and the top table line up.

The bride and groom can then be piped to the wedding cake, before taking their seats. It is traditional and ceremonious for the bride to present the piper with a dram (to congratulate him on his duties). To which Roddy will respond with a Gaelic toast, before piping himself out.

This is the popular package, but most special requests can be incorporated to customise your special day. See below for some of the other services provided.

If there are foreign visitors to the wedding and Haggis has been arranged as part of the meal, Roddy will be happy to recite Robert Burns Address to the Haggis. This can add a sense of theatre to your wedding banquet.

Evening

By popular demand, Roddy has put together 2 great options for your wedding band. Our clients were looking for something special and different, along with the reliable office service to coordinate their booking and keep all the entertainment with one company.