Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, now an esteemed title, was the inspiration for a wonderful song, and the person it was written about was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Albion College in Michigan. My grandmother, though not the woman who inspired the song, was the Sweetheart after this gal. My grandmother, a sister of Kappa Alpha Theta, married her own love, a brother of Sigma Chi, my grandfather. Which made it an easy choice, given today's wedding theme of sorority/fraternity, to use these two houses as my base.


The colors of KAT (Kappa Alpha Theta - it's going to get annoying to type pretty soon), are gold and black. The colors of SC (Sigma Chi) are gold and blue. Hence, the wedding colors being gold, blue, and black. Easy. The flower of SC is the white rose, the flower of KAT the black and gold pansy. So for the bridesmaids, blue dresses and gold dresses, with bouquets of black and gold pansys. The bride, in a lovely gold Vera Wang, carrying white roses. For the centerpieces? You guessed it, bunches of white roses and the black and gold pansies on the tables.


The groom and his attendants are all dressed in lovely black tuxes, with engraved cuff links. For the attendants, the cuff links engraved with the SC Roman letters. For the groom? One engraved with SC letters, the other engraved with KAT letters, for his wife. So cute!


One of the fun things with sororities and fraternities, is that they have crests, just like traditional family crests. So on the wedding cake, on the middle tier, have the baker add the crests! I've superimposed the crests for each of the houses on the cake in my polyvore.


Another fun thing with sororities and fraternities, is their traditions. One tradition that most sororities have, is when a sister is married, at her reception her attending sisters surround her and her now husband, and sing the sorority song. There's a sweet picture of such a singing in the polyvore below. It's really fun to do this, because sorority membership runs in the family, and you can have mothers and grandmothers who were members of the sorority join the sisters in their singing and it's a tear-jerker.


Lastly, I've chosen an awesome location. The Ruins. I fell in love with this place a year ago when looking through Seattle Bride Magazine, and wanted to have my wedding there. The neat part - they have a medium sized gold room -for the ceremony - and a large blue room - for the reception. Dude- it's a color coordinated wedding in the simplest way possible!

{Rebekah} Sorority/Fraternity: Sweetheart of Sigma Chi by bekahross