No way!
 

I love fleur de lis! (irises)

When I preffed Kappa, we were given a blue Dutch iris wrapped in cellophane, tied with light blue and dark blue ribbons and a key. I remember having no idea what kind of flower it was, but thinking it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Now I have tons of iris bulbs planted in my yard in several varieties: Dutch, Japanese, Siberian. I have all different colors, but still love blue the most. I'm running out of sunny spots to put them!

For my wedding I asked the florist to include blue irises in the arrangements, but there weren't many available since it was August and therefore not in season.

I would never want to change my sorority's flower (the Morning Glory). I love it too much and the symbolism behind it is beautiful! It's definitely hard, close to pretty much damn near impossible to find ANYTHING with morning glories on it. For senior sendoff gifts last year we wanted to decorate flower pots with KLY letters, colors, symbols, etc. and put Morning Glory seeds in them, but apparently those are really difficult to grow.

AlethiaSi- I feel ya on the flower deal. We're also a local and we have the red rose as our official flower. I think 3 other soro's on campus have that same flower, oye!

The Iris is the Poor Mans Orchaid!:)

I used to plant Irish in My back yard as a Kid! Hell you all see the purple and Yellow, I saw and planted Tobacco Road ( Dark Brown ), and Black Iris. Very Rare and unique. Easy to take care for and Most Beautiful!

Grew Like a Damn Weed unless you knew how to plant them!:)

I've never really wanted to change our flower... although I have thought about a new symbol.. (the sphinx is just REALLY hard to find/use to decorate etc) I mean I suppose Phi Sig's flower is *generic* if you just see it as a "red rose" but it's an AMERICAN BEAUTY rose and has tons of meaning... I say whenever you think one of your symbols is kinda less than personally desireable just remind yourself of the symbolism behind it and the fact that you didn't join because of the colors/symbols/flower you joined because of the women and the activities philanthropic and social... :D

Yes, I would want to change it. Ours is the yellow rose, and we use it because it is the universal symbol of friendship. However, it is also the flower of the sorority that I was a part of and was hurt really badly by, so I would love to change it to something else... We're in the midst of building a lot of new traditions, so I think it owuld be something not to difficult to do - we've even talked about it - but we don't want to offend or hurt the alumnae and founders. Therefore, I'm working on making it extremely special to me because it was extremely special to Phi Chi's founders - and Phi Chi IS extremely special to me.

Re: change flowers?
 

I know what you mean -- of course you love your flower, symbol, mascot, etc. But I think its perfectly okay to think about something more original too.

I love our golden lyre -- but I would also love something cute to have as a mascot too -- so envious of the DZ turtle because I see SO many cute turtle things everywhere!!

About the flower - well, I have always liked our red carnation for two major reasons -- cheap and easy to find! :D LOL! Of course its beautiful, full of symbolism, blahblahblah... I don't know what other flower I would have chosen -- been an Alpha Chi for too long to think about that kind of stuff I guess :)

Theta's flower is the pansy - I like it because we have a lot of them growing around campus, and they're pretty. However, it's impossible to buy/give cut pansies, and it's difficult to keep potted pansies alive. We give our new girls pansies on bid day, but since it's in the middle of January, they aren't doing too well to begin with and most die within a week or so. However, I continue to use my pansy pot (which we paint with Theta kites and such) to keep my ticket stubs from concerts and stuff.

I love the SAI flower, the red rose. It's not very unique, but it's classic, beautiful - and easy to find. We give a rose to every SAI after every concert/recital/performance. It's really special, and I love getting a rose from my sisters!

Sarah

I love our flower, the Jacqeminot Rose, a rose with no thorns. And yes they can be hard to find, but we usually can find a pretty red rose from our local florist and that works just fine. The symbolism behind our flower is wonderful and I wouldn't want to change it. However, during recruitment we use gerbera daisies during Philanthropy to decorate because they are such bright colors. However, we do go all out and have our red roses all over the house for pref and bid day.

I love the lily of the valley, the only problem is it's not really much of a bouquet flower. On pref we always have to use white roses but I think its not a big deal cuz white roses use both of our colors.

I do absolutely adore tulips though and if I was starting a sorority I would definitely use them for the flower. Too bad they're out of season most of the year. :(

I don't know how many of you are watching the new Real World, but there's a girl on there who is afraid of boats. She would be SOL if she wanted to pledge Tri Sigma. :p

There was a post in the rush forum about some girl that cut Sigma Kappa because she was afraid of snakes. Apparently this group was really into the snake thing and had one in their house -- :eek: !

I have to admit that some of the crests (skull and bones, dagger) creep me out a bit. Tri Delta has a nice, nonthreatening crest and nice, nonthreatening symbols. Unless you listen to GeekyPenguin when she claims that we tie our pledges upside down from pine trees and poke them with tridents. :p

That's really funny because in my chapter the snake really isn't that prevalent except on our pledge pin and coat of arms. Kappa Delta also has a snake on their coat of arms

I'd be freaked out by ANY of the GLOs that use bones or skull and crossbones because I have a very intense phobia of bones!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: Honestly, it's severe enough that it might make me consider cutting a group. LOL

Also, yeah, a bone phobia is really weird. Don't remind me, cause I already know. :D LOL

No, I totally dig... ewww skeletons!