GLO membership and your wedding

rho4life · #1 02-16-2006, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by Wolfman
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.

/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!

end hijack/

susan314 · #2 03-07-2007, 09:32 PM

I didn't have a big wedding, so there wasn't really anything to incorporate for me.

However, at many of my sorority sisters' weddings, we did a candlelighting. Most of us married non-fraternity men, so I can't tell you too much about what the guys did. However, IIRC, seems the one or two who did marry fraternity guys had some sort of fraternity related song as part of the wedding reception.

AlexMack · #3 03-07-2007, 09:56 PM

I'm going to have a dilemma for my wedding. 1 Corinthians 13 makes me barf everytime I hear it now. I'm not that keen on our colours for the wedding either. Maybe I'll compromise by using lavender and peach. IDk...I'll figure something out.

KSUViolet06 · #4 03-07-2007, 11:11 PM

Whenever I get married, I'd like to honor Sigma in my wedding. I just don't want it to be something blatant and tacky like giant sailboat centerpices!

I'm thinking I'll wear my badge as my "something new".

I'd also like to wear a set of pearls because I like them, and also because the pearl is Tri Sigma's jewel.

Several chapter sisters of mine will most likely be in attendance so I would like them to sing our official song at my reception too. I saw it done at a sister's wedding I attended. We all circled around the bride & sang to her!

jadis96 · #5 03-08-2007, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Whenever I get married, I'd like to honor Sigma in my wedding. I just don't want it to be something blatant and tacky like giant sailboat centerpices!

I'm thinking I'll wear my badge as my "something new".

I'd also like to wear a set of pearls because I like them, and also because the pearl is Tri Sigma's jewel.

Several chapter sisters of mine will most likely be in attendance so I would like them to sing our official song at my reception too. I saw it done at a sister's wedding I attended. We all circled around the bride & sang to her!

Not that I am getting married anytime soon, but when I do I planned to wear my late grandmother's pearls as both my "something old" and my little nod to sigma. I will prolly buy some plain pearl studs as my "something new" too.

A few years ago I was at a sisters wedding... she did purple accents with blue and cream colors. (As much as I love sigma, sometimes a little purple goes a long way!) The centerpeices were gold candle holders, covered with cream flowers and with purple candles in them. Her dress was cream and she carried cream flowers wrapped in purple ribbons. Her badge was on her garter under her dress.

When my brother got married his wife didn't really want any of his Lambda Chi stuff there, but his best man was a brother too so they had small green ribbons under their buttoneers (I know bad spelling!) and I think the other brothers wore the same small green ribbons under their badges. I wish I could remember more, but sometimes that day was a blur!

Xidelt · #6 03-08-2007, 11:30 PM

I got married about 1 1/2 years ago and had 2 sisters in my wedding party (only had 4 friends on my side of the wedding party total--it was a small destination wedding.) I incorporated our giving flower, a white rose, into my bouquet and had all of my bridesmaids' bouquets made completely out of white roses. My official sorority flower is the magnolia, but it's hard to go into the florist and say, "I need to order 1 dozen magnolia blooms for rush next week." So instead we substitute the white rose when we present flowers to members for official occasions, such as delivering bids, congratulating new members, etc.

My sorority's mascot is the dolphin and I thought briefly about ordering wedding invitations with dolphins on them (got married by the beach), but my husband thought it was a little over the top. But if it wasn't for a sorority sister introducing us, there wouldn't have even been a wedding.....

carnation · #7 03-08-2007, 11:32 PM

I didn't use Pi Phi symbols at my wedding (clash between Pi Phi colors and the Christmas theme), but my AOII daughter carried a bouquet of red roses with red hypericum berries at her wedding. Some girls she was a camp counselor with for years formed a circle around her and sang "Rose", an old Girl Scout song, and I guess some people thought it was some of the AOIIs there singing a sorority song!

Oh, but some of my Pi Phi sisters did come into the bathroom after our reception and sang "The Legacy Song" while I was dressing to leave. LOL! I think they were too embarrassed to sing in front of the guests.

GDIfly · #8 04-20-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

I didn't use Pi Phi symbols at my wedding (clash between Pi Phi colors and the Christmas theme), but my AOII daughter carried a bouquet of red roses with red hypericum berries at her wedding. Some girls she was a camp counselor with for years formed a circle around her and sang "Rose", an old Girl Scout song, and I guess some people thought it was some of the AOIIs there singing a sorority song!

Please tell me she got married in September

AlexMack · #9 03-08-2007, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Whenever I get married, I'd like to honor Sigma in my wedding. I just don't want it to be something blatant and tacky like giant sailboat centerpices!

I'm thinking I'll wear my badge as my "something new".

I'd also like to wear a set of pearls because I like them, and also because the pearl is Tri Sigma's jewel.

Several chapter sisters of mine will most likely be in attendance so I would like them to sing our official song at my reception too. I saw it done at a sister's wedding I attended. We all circled around the bride & sang to her!

My biological sister had a cape cod themed wedding. If you wanted sailboats, perhaps you could incorporate them into a beachy wedding?

RitaMae1908 · #10 03-16-2007, 10:02 AM

I'm getting married June 30th this year. When I started planning my wedding last year I wasn't a member yet. Although Pink is one of my favorite colors but I decided to go with Tiffany Blue and Chocolate Brown.
Sounds weird but looks great together.
I will be wearing my pearls though. It's also tradition that any member of AKA present at the reception circle around the AKA bride and serenade her by singing our National Hymn. And oh you better believe there will be some Struttin going on... My favorite guy friends from college are all Alphas and they will be in full effect!! My fiance isn't greek so he could care less

SWTXBelle · #11 03-16-2007, 10:25 AM

When I toured Chi Omega Headquarters, they had a beautiful lace handkerchief embroidered with X O - I was told it used to be (maybe it still is?) a tradition for a big sis to give her little sis the handkerchief at initiation, to be carried at her wedding. They also had a collection of gorgeous hand-painted china vases which one chapter gave to its brides.
As for me, I used pink carnations in my flowers, and had Matt.vii read at the service - all the Gamma Phis perked right up at that familar scripture! My sisters circled me and sang "Remember Gamma Phi Beta". My now-ex husband is a Sigma Chi, but his buddies were too drunk to serenade me. Not that I'm bitter . . .

1908Revelations · #12 04-19-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfman

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 have seen Ques hop plenty of times before, but seeing them do it in tuxes will be priceless!

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Originally Posted by RitaMae1908

I'm getting married June 30th this year. When I started planning my wedding last year I wasn't a member yet. Although Pink is one of my favorite colors but I decided to go with Tiffany Blue and Chocolate Brown.
Sounds weird but looks great together.
I will be wearing my pearls though. It's also tradition that any member of AKA present at the reception circle around the AKA bride and serenade her by singing our National Hymn. And oh you better believe there will be some Struttin going on... My favorite guy friends from college are all Alphas and they will be in full effect!! My fiance isn't greek so he could care less

My cousin (also soror) is getting married in May, but she has made no mention of wanting us to sing. Nor do I know how many sorors will be in attendance. The groom is not greek, so he does not care either way.