Frills Bid Day

[honeychile]

Our Bid Day was actually Bid Night - starting around 7pm (I think?). Since this was before many of the current rules, most sororities on campus had basically the same schedule:

-Pick up bids.
-Go to Suite or House (screaming, singing & squealing here!).
-Once everyone was accounted for, we'd go into the stairwell (nine sororities were in the same dorm), and both stomp & count the number of pledges we took. That sorority, would in turn, do the same to the 8th floor, etc.
-Pledging Ceremony. We were given both the pledge pin AND ribbons in our colors.
-Phi Delta Theta would send their pledges with carnations tied in our colors, and have "Kiss and Carnations". A welcoming poem was read, then the pledges would take turns kissing and giving each pledge a carnation.
-Pictures, pictures, and more pictures!
-Then, all of the sisters & new pledges would go to a hall for an All Greek Mixer. This was both wonderful and horrific. It was good to see who went where, but there were also tears from sisters who had rush crushes go to another sorority.
-Not part of Bid Night, but the next day, every new pledge wore their ribbons & pledge pins. Actually, we had to wear the ribbons for a week, and the pledge pins for our entire pledge period, not just when wearing Pin Attire.

Note that I don't mention t-shirts! Some sororities did give them out on Bid Day, but many didn't until Christmas exchange, which was only 2-3 weeks later. It had nothing to do with wearing letters, or the words, but it had everything to do with NOT wearing a t-shirt for the first few weeks as a Greek. You were to be "well dressed" at all times during those first weeks.