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Lavaliering has always been considered a pretty big deal on our campus. A lot of the fraternities have rules about how long you have to have been together and all that sort of stuff, and they all have some sort of ceremony they do when a guy lavaliers a girl, usually some sort of congrats to the girl and then throwing the guy in the river. I can only think of one fraternity on campus that I've heard is allowed to lavalier more than once.
One of my sisters was lavaliered twice, by two different houses. She's engaged to the guy who lavaliered her most recently (miss you, Kristi!).
I lavaliered my boyfriend my sophomore year. We were pretty serious at the time, but, hey, some things don't work out. He didn't wear shirts with my letters on them, but he did wear a necklace (although he told me that the president of his house told him he wasn't allowed to wear my letters since he was still a pledge and hadn't earned his letters yet - is this true?). He had also let me wear his shirts when we were just hanging around his room, which he wasn't supposed to do.
I have never heard of anyone on our campus getting pinned. As far as I know, lavaliering is usually considered either serious relationship or a pre-engagement, but I haven't heard of anyone doing anymore.
My current boyfriend is independent and he made me a GDI lavalier and gave it to me just before my formal last year. It was so sweet and because he made it and everything, I think it meant a lot more than any lavalier I almost got from a Greek house!
One thing, too, that i think is pretty cute. When my parents got engaged, my mom's chapter gave my dad a sweatshirt with her letters on it. There's this picture of the two of them with my dad rocking KD letters! It is too cute!
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