haha, I never read this thread because on my campus we don't call it "dropping" and I thought some creep was looking for a way to dump his girlfriend.

Anyway, on my campus, lavaliering is a bit of a curse...the couples have been together for a considerable time but end up breaking up within a few months.

This is the first I've heard of any of this.

Lavaliering? Pinning of girlfriends? Dropping? News to me...

However, after reading through this whole thread, it may be very possible for me to start a new tradition. Of course, it can't apply to me, as I proposed to my GDI girlfriend and THEN gave her my letters with "sweetheart" attached. The boys never did anything except rag on me a bit.

I'm interested in making it a bit more of an event if more things like this occur in the future. It just sucks that my group is a bit more diverse than most greeks -- we've got many, many young guys who leave college early, never go steady until after graduation, marry late in life, or joined LSP at an older age. Gah. I'll probably be long gone from college by the time another event like mine happens again.

wearing his letters
 

In response to a few girls who mentioned wearing their boyfriends letters instead of their own:

at my school there are a lot of girls who put both sets of letters (their own, and their bf's after being lavaliered) on one necklace with a pearl between so that they are not wearing one instead of the other.

so that is an option for you girls out there that dont want to stop wearing your own to wear your bf's.

*and to cucinni....WOW i cant believe that a chapter could justify hurting their own sister, and that she would be "expecting it" from her own sisters! that is definitely hazing in my book! we celebrate lavaliering at our school!

ahahahahahah since this was just bumped, i've never seen it before and i thought the SAME thing.

lavaliering/pinning wasn't something we really did at my school until you were married.... but greek life was also fairly small...

our fraternity doesnt really have a ceramony for it but my g/f sorority def. has a a ceramony for it, and its a huge deal to sorority girls... my girl wants me to lavalier her so damn bad lol but im holding off for a lil while more.

In my sorority, lavaliering is such a huge thing. We're all super happy for the girl--I can't imagine why anyone would haze a girl for getting letters! One of my closest sisters got a lavalier over the summer and I've been bragging for her to everyone I see.

I'm kind of hoping that my boyfriend will get me a lavalier after our anniversary, or maybe at the fall Delta Gamma date function (that was our first kiss!). I just bought him a really nice Kappa Sigma badge for his birthday because his big brother never got him one and I thought, "Maybe I'll get this back one day!"

Also, Allison is one of my sisters. Don't worry, I'll keep your secret!