AOII Wedding Traditions

[AOIIalum]

Yes, I'm on a posting tear tonight

Does your chapter have any wedding traditions? A specific song sung, a friendship circle, loving cup? Maybe having all the AOIIs sit in a certain place during the ceremony and/or reception? For those of you who got married, did you request anything specific that was because you are an AOII?

To answer my own question: I specifically told my photographer to take plenty of pictures when we passed the loving cup, there's one picture of me in the center of our friendship circle in tears with my sisters all around me. I also had 2 AOIIs in my wedding party (I also had a Chi O!), another AOII did a reading during the ceremony, and another handled the guest book. Let's see, I think there were 2-3 pews reserved for AOIIs as well.

Anyone else?

Roses,
Christin

[AOIIBrandi]

OK, ya'll are gonna think I went crazy...

3 of my 5 attendants were AOIIs, a fourth was a legacy - my sister. The flower girl was a legacy - an attendant's sister. The bridesmaids carried red roses and white daisies and they wore pearls - don't worry the dresses were navy. Another AOII did one of the readings.

The cake had fresh flowers on it - red roses, and at the reception I had a "candle passing" although this time I just stood in the middle holding the flowers and candle and blew it out when they finished singing our candle lighting song: she's a rose, she's a pearl, she's an AOII girl... hence my signature. If you want to know the rest let me know.

Now onto the rest... My husband is a IIKA all 5 of his attendants were IIKA and so was the other reader. I mentioned the cake earlier, instead of icing ribbons on the side of the cake I had tiny icing lily of the valley. I also had 2 garters one to throw and one to keep. The one he threw was white lace with garnett and gold ribbon and lily of the valley (fake). I sooo wanted lily of the valley in my bouquet until I found out it was $60 a stem and would wilt in an hour had white roses instead.

When my big and lil got married we also had candle passings for them. Not sure if any other sisters in our chapter had them...