Wedding traditions
 

Does your chapter do anything special for a brother or sister who's getting married? What sort of GLO traditions have you seen at weddings?

(I'm not in a GLO right now, but I just LOVE hearing about weddings.) :)

My chapter has a song that we sing during inspirational times that we call "The Circle Song" so at the reception for a sigma bride, we all hold hands and stand in a circle with the bride in the middle and serenade her!

I remember once coming across "the order of the pink garter" somewhere in the president's files. It was a silly little thing into which the husband of a Phi Mu bride should be inducted. If anyone has heard of this, or has a copy, let me know.

The chapter that I advise has little sisters give their big sisters garters for their wedding day during the annual Senior Ceremony. :)

Also, my chapter has the tradition of forming a circle around the bride during the reception and singing one of our DZ songs. I'm getting married later this year, and can't wait to have pictures of this in my wedding album! :D

My chapter of KD traditionally wears the garter we get from our bigs for initiation under our wedding dress. I will be wearing mine on September 20th :)

When I'm choosing bouquets for my bridesmaids, the two KDs will definitely have white roses in theirs!

Beta is the singing fraternity, and so there are lots of songs than can be used, but the song we sing at weddings is exclusive to our chapter, one called "Honey". The bride sits down and the brothers serenade her.

This is also common among Sinfonian chapters in my experience.

My little just got married last month. Several of us sisters were invited and we gathered round her at the reception and sang a song, "The Sweetheart Song," to her. The best thing about this????? It has never been done within our chapter! Usually the song is sung when the sister announces she is engaged. But I decided that I wanted to do something special for her, so I organized it for the wedding! She was so surprised and it was the most thoughtful gift I could have given to her (well, atleast in my opinion). I hope I started a tradition within my chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma ;)


Jadey

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We sing "Love, Labor, Learning, and Loyalty" in a circle around the bride, and we may also sing "I See the Moon."

I have been to two different agd weddings, one from my chapter and the other was a different one. Mine is not a singing chapter at all and what songs we sing, we don't sing like any other chapter. We sing "Rose" or "Tonight as we gather" (most chapters sing "Today as we gather". The one I went to that wasn't my chapter, did "as we gathered" but so pretty and different that I couldn't sing with them. I would love to learn the Murray State version.

I find traditions very important and I find that this is one additional thing that sets us even farther apart from the non-greeks. I feel sorry for anyone who chooses to miss these special moments.

weddings
 

I was at a wedding earlier this year. It wasn't my GLO but rather a Tri-Delt marrying a Sigma Chi. There was a bunch of Sigma Chi's there and they got down on one knee and sang to the bride. It was so neat to see them sing to her. I could tell that she really appreciated it.

In my chapter/org. the girls circle and sing to the bride at the reception. The brides sometimes also choose to incorporate some ritual, but I can't say how! It's nice because all the girls notice at the ceremony, but it's our little secret!

one chapter of my glo keeps in their house a teacup cabinet. Each sister or alum that gets married sends a teacup\saucer set from their china set and they are put on display in this cabinet.... i think that's the cutest idea even though it's not something the members do for the bride/groom

sigmadahlin' - The Alpha Xi chapter on my campus does the opposite. Each pledge buys a teacup and saucer, it is displayed for their four years in a beautiful china cabinet in their chapter room. (I guess when they graduate they store them?) But when they get married, the chapter presents them with their teacup they bought way back when.

In Phi Mu (at least my chapter) we do what most have already mentioned...circling around the bride and singing. There is also a Chapter Development we do while undergrads which includes an activity geared towards your wedding but I don't know that I am allowed to disclose it...any other Phi Mus know what I'm talking about? :) By the time I get married...if I ever do...I will probably miss out on the singing thing due to losing touch with sisters and such but there are other facets of Phi Mu that will definitely be present!

I dont remember a CD with any particular activity for when you get married...are you talking about a ritual CD????
We have had alot of engagements but only one wedding in my chapter since ive been a sister (almost 3 years) and we didnt do anything in particular at her ceremony...she gave us all a pink carnation it was at our tables with a cute notecard at the reception, and she had some pink carnations in her bouquet...

deltabetababy: what is the whole pink garter thing??? ive never heard about it...i sent an email to one of my alum's who works in my office to ask her about it...but ive never seen or heard anything about it sounds super cute though :)

these traditions are so cute. unfortunetly I am apart of a local org that has only been around for 3 years so we havent yet gotten the chance to witness a wedding however we just had an engagement! (one of our alum) And it was so cute, the day we found out we called a so called emergency meeting so she could announce it to all of us. It was the best thing to hear! But know my focus is something for the wedding! what can us girls do! we'll think of something.
Anyway you are all lucky to have these great traditions! keep it up!

Our chapter sings "The Legacy Song" to the bride at the reception, However, sisters who came to mine were too embarrassed to sing it in front of everyone so they sang it in the bathroom:eek: while I was changing to leave. We were ROTFL and suddenly, we heard this little voice come out of a stall saying, "What are y'all DOING?" (non-Greek bridesmaid, we'd thought we were alone)

The Chi Os at Mississippi State had this garter that each girl wore to her wedding and she would sew a ribbon to it with her name and wedding date and send it back. It had about 2 billion ribbons on it and I don't know how it stayed up at that weight or how they always got people to return it!

Deltabetababy, Ladybug, Moonstar~
I haven't heard of any of these traditions. From the looks of it in the next 2 or 3 years I'm going to be giogn to lots of Phi Mu weddings and I would love to know some things to do for the brides. Right now the only thing i can think of is singing "Sisters" or "Picture a Girl" to her.

I didn't attend but one of our advisors got married this year and I know the sisters that went gathered around and sang our sweetheart song to both the bride and groom. :)

My wedding was full of yellow roses...and I wasn't even a Beta Sigma Phi yet!

:)

My grand-big just got married, and incorporated the red rose of SAI into a lot of the wedding images and such. She also used a New Testament reading that is very special to us--I'm certain that the other SAIs know exactly the one--and her pin was pinned to her wedding gown somewhere, I believe. We didn't have enough sisters present to sing the Chorale or Bennediction, but her big sang at the ceremony and it was lovely all around.