one of our bros married a member of a Latina sorority, but i guess neither wanted any of us doing our calls or strolling because several of his family members were members of another sorority...not to say that didn't stop the girls from doing their calls....every half hour.

Not that I am getting married anytime soon, but when I do I planned to wear my late grandmother's pearls as both my "something old" and my little nod to sigma. I will prolly buy some plain pearl studs as my "something new" too.

A few years ago I was at a sisters wedding... she did purple accents with blue and cream colors. (As much as I love sigma, sometimes a little purple goes a long way!) The centerpeices were gold candle holders, covered with cream flowers and with purple candles in them. Her dress was cream and she carried cream flowers wrapped in purple ribbons. Her badge was on her garter under her dress.

When my brother got married his wife didn't really want any of his Lambda Chi stuff there, but his best man was a brother too so they had small green ribbons under their buttoneers (I know bad spelling!) and I think the other brothers wore the same small green ribbons under their badges. I wish I could remember more, but sometimes that day was a blur!

I got married about 1 1/2 years ago and had 2 sisters in my wedding party (only had 4 friends on my side of the wedding party total--it was a small destination wedding.) I incorporated our giving flower, a white rose, into my bouquet and had all of my bridesmaids' bouquets made completely out of white roses. My official sorority flower is the magnolia, but it's hard to go into the florist and say, "I need to order 1 dozen magnolia blooms for rush next week." So instead we substitute the white rose when we present flowers to members for official occasions, such as delivering bids, congratulating new members, etc.

My sorority's mascot is the dolphin and I thought briefly about ordering wedding invitations with dolphins on them (got married by the beach), but my husband thought it was a little over the top. But if it wasn't for a sorority sister introducing us, there wouldn't have even been a wedding.....:p

I didn't use Pi Phi symbols at my wedding (clash between Pi Phi colors and the Christmas theme), but my AOII daughter carried a bouquet of red roses with red hypericum berries at her wedding. Some girls she was a camp counselor with for years formed a circle around her and sang "Rose", an old Girl Scout song, and I guess some people thought it was some of the AOIIs there singing a sorority song!

Oh, but some of my Pi Phi sisters did come into the bathroom after our reception and sang "The Legacy Song" while I was dressing to leave. LOL! I think they were too embarrassed to sing in front of the guests.

My biological sister had a cape cod themed wedding. If you wanted sailboats, perhaps you could incorporate them into a beachy wedding?

I'm getting married June 30th this year. When I started planning my wedding last year I wasn't a member yet. Although Pink is one of my favorite colors but I decided to go with Tiffany Blue and Chocolate Brown.
Sounds weird but looks great together.
I will be wearing my pearls though. It's also tradition that any member of AKA present at the reception circle around the AKA bride and serenade her by singing our National Hymn. And oh you better believe there will be some Struttin going on... My favorite guy friends from college are all Alphas and they will be in full effect!! My fiance isn't greek so he could care less :D

When I toured Chi Omega Headquarters, they had a beautiful lace handkerchief embroidered with X O - I was told it used to be (maybe it still is?) a tradition for a big sis to give her little sis the handkerchief at initiation, to be carried at her wedding. They also had a collection of gorgeous hand-painted china vases which one chapter gave to its brides.
As for me, I used pink carnations in my flowers, and had Matt.vii read at the service - all the Gamma Phis perked right up at that familar scripture! My sisters circled me and sang "Remember Gamma Phi Beta". My now-ex husband is a Sigma Chi, but his buddies were too drunk to serenade me. Not that I'm bitter . . .

I was initiated into AOII earlier this year. On pref day, we all participated in a moving ceremony with roses and rose petal signifying our wishes, and on bid day, the same roses were waiting on the tables for us in little vases.
Our pledge mom gathered them all up, dried them, and told us all to take some of the petals. We're supposed to save them in a special jar our Bigs gave us on initiation and keep them until our wedding. This way, our chapter will be there even if not there physically. I was told it's tradition, not sure if it's for our chapter or all of AOII, but a cute idea :)

aww that is such a cute idea! it must be only your or a few chapters b/c ive never heard of that before.

my boyfriend and I aren't engaged yet, but we have talked about it. I have my heart set on pink bridesmaids dresses, but I'd love to incorporate Kappa as well. I know I'll be wearing my badge..and possibly use the "fleur de lis" idea for invites? has anyone been to a wedding with a TKE? My man was a refounder of his chapter, and I know he'll want his fraternity included, but cherry red and battleship grey are not options, lol. I'd love for them to sing the sweetheart song to me..maybe I can hint at it.

any other ideas?

I have seen Ques hop plenty of times before, but seeing them do it in tuxes will be priceless!

My cousin (also soror) is getting married in May, but she has made no mention of wanting us to sing. Nor do I know how many sorors will be in attendance. The groom is not greek, so he does not care either way.

It really is :D

One of my prophytes who married a Que had her reception in a ballroom on campus, in the building where I used to work as a student. I was talking to some of my former co-workers a couple of days after the event, and they were so confused about how a wedding reception could cause that much damage to the floor :p

I think the idea of incorporating your fraternity or sorority (colors, letters, etc.) in your wedding is one of the most ridiculously cheesey things I have ever heard of.

I think it depends. If the majority of your friends attending are your sisters/brothers particularly with the D9 orgs where dance (and stepping) is a part of the culture of the org, it'd be surprising if your GLO wasn't integrated into both the wedding and the reception (where there is, shockingly, dancing)

Will I be having a lavendar and maroon wedding? No. Will there be something to include my GLO in it? Yes. I really don't have my wedding planned, but something will be there, even if it's just my pin on my bouqet.

So ... don't do it? :)

I've only been to two wedding where the couples were GLO members. At the first, the bride was a member of an NPC sorority (I don't remember the group - ADPi, maybe?), and her sisters serenaded her at the reception. The other, as I already mentioned, was my prophyte's wedding. The Ques did their wedding tradition as Wolfman described, and we sang the Delta Sweetheart Song for the bride.

I have been to one or two weddings where the bride or groom or both were members of GLO's. At my cousin wedding, she is an AKA, she incorporated the pink color into her wedding, and some of her bridesmaids were her line sisters. At the reception they sang the sweetheart song to her. I thought it was beautiful.

My soror-cousin that is getting married her colors are pink and white. She thought the pink and green was toooo much...I liked it. I think thats the neo in me!

Soror RitaMae...I think those colors are cute!

Yeah, my previous post came off a little harsh. I will absolutely incorporate my fraternity in my wedding....but it will be in the form of my brothers being the groomsmen/best man.

.........and if my mom has anything to do with the wedding details, the colors will definitely be very classic and traditional.

I've only been to non-greek weddings so I'm not quite sure I know what one should look like. :o :( There are a few members of my family, mom, dad, cousins ect. that are in GLOs though.

I heard colors are used quite often, and of course the members are always in the wedding, but that's all I know.

Teke's flower is the Red Carnation, not the Red Rose.
(And KKG uses Irises as a representation for Fleur-de-lis if she wanted to go that way...)

I like the idea of incorporating as much personal meaning into the ceremony and reception as possible. If your GLO and its symbolism are meaningful to you, why wouldn't you incorporate it? I chose hymns to be played before the ceremony on the basis of what was meaningful to me - so while some in the congregation were probably going "The Saints of God? That's not wedding music!" the important thing is what it meant to me.
So too with colors - you can just pick colors that are pretty, but isn't it nice to be able to pick some that also have meaning? I'm well-versed in the Victorian language of flowers, and chose flowers for my bouquets according to what they meant - but also included the white rose of Sigma Chi and the pink carnations of Gamma Phi because of their meaning. Cheesy? No - it could be done in a tacky fashion, I guess - just like everything else in a wedding. But it can also be done in a very tasteful manner. Borrowing the plywood giant letters of your GLO to be displayed on the church grounds - throwing hand signs at the altar - tacky. Pinning your badge to a ribbon on your bouquet, carrying a handkerchief given to you by your big sister with your letters on it, having specific, meaningful Bible verses in the service, a groom's cake in the shape of his badge, singing a traditional song at the reception - all, IMHO, very nice.

Please tell me she got married in September :p