GLO membership and your wedding

[PhoenixAzul]

Did anyone incorporate items of your GLO membership in your wedding (ceremony or otherwise?). Use of colors/mascot/flower? If your better half was also in a GLO, did you incorporate his/her membership as well?

[PKTKKG]

I would have loved to have had blue dresses for the bridesmaids, but my dress was ivory and the blue did not click. I ended up with wine bridesmaid dresses, and the florist put blue iris in their bouquets to compliment! That was the only part that I was able to incorporate into my wedding, other than my best friend who was my pledge sister as one of the bridesmaids.

[LionTamer]

1st Corinthians 13 is dear to the ASA heart, and I've notice most ASA weddings incorporate it, and I always looked for wedding cards that quoted it for my sister's weddings.

"If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a woman, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. "

[dzrose93]

Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
Did anyone incorporate items of your GLO membership in your wedding (ceremony or otherwise?). Use of colors/mascot/flower? If your better half was also in a GLO, did you incorporate his/her membership as well?

I didn't incorporate any DZ items into my wedding... I like pink and green, but they weren't the best colors to use for a fall wedding. However, my matron-of-honor was one of my DZ little sisters, and I had a special section reserved in the church for my other sisters who attended the ceremony.

At the reception, my sisters circled around me and sang, which is one of our chapter traditions.

DH is not a member of a fraternity.

[ISUKappa]

My sister incorporated irises into our bridesmaids bouquets for her wedding. That didn't work with my colors, so I used stylized fleur de lis on the invitations, programs, favors, etc... If I would have been thinking, I would have worn my badge somewhere on my wedding day, but I had a lot on my mind that weekend! At both my sister's and my weddings, all the Kappas in attendance gathered around and serenaded the groom.

Although there were quite a few of my husband's ATO brothers in attendance, they don't have a tradition of doing anything for the bride or groom at weddings.

ETA: I also had three Kappas in my wedding party (bio sis and two pledge sisters). My sister had one (and me, but I was still in high school) but had other Kappas as personal attendants, etc... DH had three fraternity brothers as groomsmen or ushers.

[KSUViolet06]

I attended the reception of an alumna, and she used purple violets as her accent flower with Sigma in mind. I'd go for something subtle like that in my wedding, as opposed to something blatant like sailboat centerpieces or something.

As far as other traditions, ALL of her bridesmaids were Sigmas, so they circled and sang a couple of different songs and did some of our more "interesting" cheers, just for kicks.

[sueali]

I had my badge pinned to the ribbon of my bouquet. All sigma kappa's in attendance were given paper violets tied with maroon ribbon to wear and it was mentioned in the program that they were sigma kappa's.

[adpiucf]

I am not married, but have attended a few weddings of sorority sisters.... Here are some of the things they have done.

One of my sisters wore her badge under her gown when she walked down the aisle. Another had a psalm sung during the ceremony and service that is of special significance to the sorority.

Pinning the badge under the dress, close to your heart, is common-- either as your something old, something borrowed, or something blue as applicable (if it has blue stones...) or just something that incorporates the sorority into a personal and meaninful day in your life.

At most, the sisters present would serenade the bride at the reception. Another bride played a ballad that our chapter sings at prefs and is dear to our hearts.

Photos with the sisters present are also a big hit at the reception. One of my sisters had her reception at a B&B that had two large stone lion statues at the front of the property. The lion is our mascot and it was the perfect place to pose for a few group shots.

A friend of mine is in another sorority. On initiation day, as part of gift giving to the new initiates, the big sister gives the little sister a garter belt to wear on her wedding day.

I heard of another couple who married just out of college. The groom's cake was in the style of his fraternity pin.

ETA: sueali-- how did you make paper violets? It sounds pretty! I'd love to see photos, as the ADPi flower is the woodland violet!

[AGDee]

Originally posted by LionTamer
1st Corinthians 13 is dear to the ASA heart, and I've notice most ASA weddings incorporate it, and I always looked for wedding cards that quoted it for my sister's weddings.

"If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a woman, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. "

I've never been to a wedding that didn't have this passage read... greek or not.

[amanda6035]

I'm not getting married until October 2007 (fiance is still in the military right now, and I dont graduate until next Spring anyway) but I've already decided how I'm going to do this. I'm only having 1 sister as a bridesmaid - my twin, and my other 4 attendants are friends from high school and the navy. I'm going to ask my little sister to be a door greeter, and whenever one of our sisters arrives, she's going to give her a pink rose to hold during the ceremony as my way of honoring each of my sisters. The pink rose wont have anything to do with the ceremony - its just our flower. I dont care if they match with the rest of the decorations or not.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

One of my pledge sisters was married in early November. She had a huge, beautiful wedding.

The six of us who pledged with her were invited, and there was a pink carnation with a pink ribbon around it at the door for each of us (other than the moms, we were the only ones to carry flowers.)

None of us were bridesmaids, but two of us (the ones closest to her) read in the wedding.



... the 1 Cor passage was read at her wedding, too, btw.

[KSigkid]

A few of my brothers were at the wedding, including some of the groomsmen. My wife had a few of her Alpha Phi sisters present as well. That was as far as I went with incorporation.

[AOIIBrandi]

My bridesmaids carried red roses and I had a sorority sister do one of the readings which is dear to AOII's heart. My garter to toss was garnett and gold as Mr. AOIIBrandi is a TTKA, and the embellishment on the sides of our cake was lilly of the valley. I wanted to have lilly of the valley in my boquet (sp) also, but I was advised by my florist that it was $60 a stem and would wilt before I got down the aisle (August in FL)...

ETA: 4 of my 5 bridesmaids were/are AOIIs

[aephi alum]

My husband and I didn't do anything special, aside from the fact that my maid of honor and one of the other bridesmaids are sisters, and there were several more sisters among the guests. (DH is not in a fraternity.)

Come to think of it, I've been to a few sisters' weddings, and nobody has done anything special other than seating us all together or making sure the photographer took a group picture of all the AEPhi's.

I went to a wedding last summer where the bride was an AXO. There were a lot of AXO's in attendance, and they sang a song for her and her new husband... very pretty

[Denise_DPhiE]

I didn't have anything sorority related incorporated into the actual wedding but my maid of honor (during her speech) told my wedding guests about the day she met me, right before the rush party (it was called rush and there was no panhel so we could speak to pnm) and told everyone all about my purple leather reebok high tops. I guess that was memorable! She was in our first NM class and we have been friends ever since!

Denise