What do your bids look like?

[UFgatorLove]

At UF the bid cards cannot have crests/symbols/anything that you may see through the envelope and know its one certain chapter. All the bid cards have to be signed in black in as well. (This is what I was told two years ago, it may have changed!)

[carnation]

(In the tone of Charlie Brown's,"I got a rock,"), at Auburn back in the day...all the rushees got computer punchcards.

[Lyria]

This is my bid to DO. <3 I don't know about other DO chapters, but this is the bid I received this spring. It's really pretty and even though we're not NPC, I still adore my bid card.
I don't know if other professional societies do this, because technically Delta Omicron is a professional international music fraternity that's coed.

[OleMissGlitter]

My bid card way back in 1996 at Ole Miss was a computer print out on an index size piece of paper. It said: Congratulations <insert name> Alpha Omicron Pi. I still have it!

Today at Ole Miss, all of the sororities use the pretty bid cards with their seal/crest/flower on them. They are very pretty and much more special I think than a print out from a computer!

You can see the AOII Ole Miss bid day card at the bottom of their website:
http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/alphaomi...cruitment.html
Small pic but you get the idea.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

My bid card way back in 1996 at Ole Miss was a computer print out on an index size piece of paper. It said: Congratulations <insert name> Alpha Omicron Pi. I still have it!

Ole Miss Glitter-

I pledged Theta at Ole Miss in 1979 and I got the same computer printed card... and I still have mine in my scrapbook, too

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by UFgatorLove

At UF the bid cards cannot have crests/symbols/anything that you may see through the envelope and know its one certain chapter.

Why not use lined envelopes?

FWIW (yeah, I know this is a sorority recruitment forum), our standard bid card says "Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity invites _________ to pledge himself to probationary membership in the _____________ chapter." The coat of arms appears behind the words in gray scale, and there is an RSVP info line.

Mine disappeared in a move eons ago.

[aab225]

Originally Posted by UFgatorLove

At UF the bid cards cannot have crests/symbols/anything that you may see through the envelope and know its one certain chapter. All the bid cards have to be signed in black in as well. (This is what I was told two years ago, it may have changed!)

yeah that makes sense. our envelopes were SO thick though that you couldn't see anything! they were lined with gold foil too. very pretty and special. i'll keep it forever <3

they also made us sit on our envelopes until all 800 of us had theirs! i don't think i've ever been so nervous/excited in my life! could NOT sit still!

[glittergal1985]

finally found my bid card