Oh yes, when I sing alto it feels like that too. You can tell when it's horribly wrong, but not when it's right.
I think you should wear some kind of Minbari robe like arrangement. I'm going to make something a little like that to wear to formal events at some point, so if you get married in Minbari robes, there's one person who wouldn't be worying what to wear!
I think ceilidhs are supposed to be a messy doggy whirl of people, and as such you don't need to thank people or ask them to dance, because you're going to end up dancing with them again in thirty seconds anyway. Hilariously, when I was at school we had a barn dance (= ceilidh for wimps and with different instruments in the band, as far as I can tell) and I went round the circle doing the algorithm "one two three turn one two three next partner somebody's mum again one two three turn one two three next oh shit it's the headmistress *falls over feet*"
Mmm. As cartesiandaemon mentions above, he and I had part of this conversation recently in the pub, and one of the things I did say at the time was that the costume design in shows like B5 do manage to demonstrate that one doesn't have to wear a shirt and tie in order to look smart and formal. I was unconvinced that I'd actually want to dress exactly like something that had obviously come straight out of B5, but it does at least demonstrate that plausible alternatives ought to exist if one only has the costume-design skills.
When I said all of that in the pub I was mostly thinking of the humans' clothes in B5, which often manage to look slightly futuristic but still basically suitlike and do so without involving shirts and ties. Looking further afield to the alien races didn't occur to me, but now you mention it the Minbari do have a lot of good stuff there...
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I think you should wear some kind of Minbari robe like arrangement. I'm going to make something a little like that to wear to formal events at some point, so if you get married in Minbari robes, there's one person who wouldn't be worying what to wear!
I think ceilidhs are supposed to be a messy doggy whirl of people, and as such you don't need to thank people or ask them to dance, because you're going to end up dancing with them again in thirty seconds anyway. Hilariously, when I was at school we had a barn dance (= ceilidh for wimps and with different instruments in the band, as far as I can tell) and I went round the circle doing the algorithm "one two three turn one two three next partner somebody's mum again one two three turn one two three next oh shit it's the headmistress *falls over feet*"
Mmm. As
When I said all of that in the pub I was mostly thinking of the humans' clothes in B5, which often manage to look slightly futuristic but still basically suitlike and do so without involving shirts and ties. Looking further afield to the alien races didn't occur to me, but now you mention it the Minbari do have a lot of good stuff there...
I've just realised there appear to be no photos on the web of what I wore (or of the wedding in general). Must fix that.