Sounds like a nice way to incorporate them both, Honey.


Not for nothing, but I'll note here that in the "how to wear your badge" part of every pledge book I've ever seen, there's a paragraph explaining that your badge should always be above anything else you wear, and closest to your heart.

I think it's a holdover from when girls were more frequently pinned on college campuses, and "where do I put his?" was a bigger question.

My chapter's Alpha Mom (or New Member Coordinator if you want to get nit-picky!) gave all of her Alpha class blue and white ribbons connected with a safety pin the day of initiation. She told us to save them (I still have mine!) for our weddings so we can use them as "something blue" and as a reminder later on of our initaiton day :)

My chapter had a pin that had been donated by an alumni and everyone had the chance to wear it under their gown. It came with a journal and had been passed down for years and years. It was really great to be able to wear the pin and write something about your wedding in the journal. Also fun to read. I don't know if they still do it or not. I will be celebrating 25 years in May! My sisters serenaded me with "My Pi Phi Girl" and my husbands brothers with "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" it was so moving!!!

Since my senior year I was voted "Most Likely to have her wedding colors be cardinal and straw" I couldn't let my sisters down!
The girls wore red dresses and carried yellow roses. My maid of honor - also a Chi O - carried red and yellow roses with some white carnations. I also had a few white carnations in my bouquet.

The cake was pale yellow with red roses on it. The tablecloths were pale yellow and one of the favors were dried MI cherries - which represented my home state, but also put some red onto the tables!

I pinned my badge to the ribbon on my bouquet as well. :D

Mine didn't! :) I had an Apache wedding blessing read and Colossions 3 12-15:

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

When my sister got married, she wore the groom's badge pinned to her garter. The garter was made by her and her sorority sisters in the sorority colors. Part of the tradition was that the bride-to-be, in this case my sister, was the one to sew the letters on it. After the groom removed the garter, he presented it to my sister (the bride). She removed the badge from the garter and presented both back to her husband. This was symbolic in that she had "replaced" his fraternity badge with the wedding ring.

FYI: Being the nimble kid that I was, I caught it! And I still have it. I offered it back to her years later, but she said it was part of her wedding memories. Her little brother out jumping all these "grown men" to get it.

I would be surprised it they didn't. It's pretty much a tradition.

I got chills when I read that!! Can you imagine a journal of 100 years of brides, wearing their pins on their wedding day?!

Unsure if this has been mentioned further down, but this verse, in the Catholic church at least, is considered the Wedding verse. Nearly EVERY Catholic wedding uses this unless something else is requested. But this is "standard" So I don't know about any other Christian churches, but it doesn't surprise me that this is commonly used.

Still awesome that it just plain "fits" for both marriage and ASA though.

Red carnations didn't go with the dresses or platinum roses I wanted, but I did have red carnations passed out to every Alpha Chi at the wedding. I had one sister at the door handing them out. I think the person most surprised by this was an Alpha Chi who I found living down the street from me. She is engaged to one of my neighbors, but we had never met before the wedding. I also wore my badge and lavalier inside of my dress.

We also had a lot of pictures taken, and towards the end of the evening, we all began requesting songs special to our chapter (recruitment songs, etc.) and sang them. Other people thought we were nuts, but we had a fabulous time.

I got married in the Catholic Church last June and did not use this verse. No one told me it was "standard" either. What do you mean by "unless something else is requested"? We were given lists of appropiate scripture reading, and of course that one was included, but it certainly wasn't the only option. My husband and I chose all the details of the Mass, right down to the arrangements of the Common Mass. We didn't have to "request" for anything to be different because it was simply expected that we would make those decisions for ourselves based on our relationship with each other and with God.

Lest this be seen as simply as a sorority brides' domain, it's "traditional" at the reception of Que(Omega Psi Phi) grooms to do three things: 1) for brothers to gather in the middle of the hall aroung the bride and sing the Omega Psi Phi Sweetheart Song to her ,2) for brothers to link up and sing our fraternity hymn, 'Omega Dear' and 3) immediately afterward for the DJ to crank up "Atomic Dog" and the the bruhs "set out a hop"(i.e., have an impromptu mini-step show). That's how we do it!:)

I've been to a Que wedding. :) It was soooo funny to see the looks on some people's faces when dudes in tuxes started gettin' down!

This summer one of our chapter brothers got married. His father-in-law, who is an Alpha, half-jokingly said after the "hop" at the reecpetion that he told his son, who communicated to him that he wanted to become a Que, that he would forbid him to come into his house barking.:)

When one of my sisters was married over the summer she made sure that she wore a purple garter belt for us and gave us all a daisy to pin on our tops. She married someone in our brother fraternity so all of the groomsmen wore scarlet and grey ties.

/hijack/ so, I was at a Toga party with my Sorors in a residential neighborhood...and I say to the homeowner "wow, your neighbors have really LOUD dogs" [they had just recently moved into the house].
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About a minute later the Ques come in, and I realized that their barks were TOO realistic! I still get teased about this!

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