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Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:14 pm to djmed
If anyone would have a bourbon tradition it'd be us here in Kentucky. frick no Ive never heard of this either.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:24 pm to SG_Geaux
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I've lived in the south my entire life and I have NEVER heard of this
This.. this all day..
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:29 pm to djmed
Never heard of this
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:37 pm to djmed
Most Southern brides only have about a month from when they find out their preg… oops, I mean get engaged and the wedding.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:40 pm to djmed
If it's Jim Beam, it can just stay buried.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:42 pm to mtntiger
I'll deviate and say its a thing I heard about as far back as the 70s, but it was always a question of class; I never heard of normal people, only the weird eccentrics who lived on their inherited planation types.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 5:44 pm to djmed
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next to a gingko tree
Not a real southern tree. If it was a Southern tradition it would be next to a Southern Magnolia, Crapemyrtle, Dogwood,
This is something new like a gender reveal party or spouses needing a push gift.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:06 pm to SG_Geaux
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I've lived in the south my entire life and I have NEVER heard of this
Upvote #200.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:24 pm to High C
the author is a UGA grad
...OT should unload on her online
...OT should unload on her online
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:29 pm to djmed
Sounds like the bourbon lobby is alive and well.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:31 pm to djmed
I first heard about this when I moved to Tennessee. People also bury a bottle on their wedding day to be dug up on their first anniversary.
ETA: And heard if it is a stretch, I just know one couple here who did it and he's an LSU baw.
ETA: And heard if it is a stretch, I just know one couple here who did it and he's an LSU baw.
This post was edited on 9/26/22 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:34 pm to texn
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I hadn't heard of this superstition, nor the one about Hoppin' John & collard greens on New Year's Day (I thought the superstition was black eyed peas and I never heard of Hoppin' John).
Lived around Charleston SC for 61 years, been married twice, never heard of burying bourbon. I’d have been joining my groomsmen with a shovel trying to dig it up.
On the other hand, had Hoppin’ John and collard greens pretty much every New Years.
Never seemed to bring me extra luck or money.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:37 pm to sabanisarustedspoke
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Was that a fricking Haiku?
No... More of an adaptation of the old thing...
Something old
Something new
Something borrowed
Something blue
This is though...
Bourbon in the ground
To prevent wedding day rain
Not Southern, just dumb.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:54 pm to UKWildcats
I have seen it done once in Louisiana in 2017. Probably the nicest wedding I will ever go to. Wedding was in the back yard of the bride's parents. I was quite confused when the bride and groom started digging in the brick planter box.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 6:57 pm to Auburn80
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Most Southern brides only have about a month from when they find out their preg… oops, I mean get engaged and the wedding.
those crazy kids attempting to have a nuclear family
Posted on 9/26/22 at 7:19 pm to djmed
Wright Thompson's great great great uncle, Henry Thompson had a friend. A stately man this friend was. Honorable and great. His name was Alexander Van Winkle. Van Winkle's mother Betty Mae was the first to start this tradition. It had been a very long and tiresome few years with the drought and all and just despair. She prayed hard and long. Many days she did. Then one day she woke up to the smell rain and a dream straight from the Lord and he said "go forth and bury this bourbon. Do this you must exactly one month from the date thy son be wed". So Betty Mae immediately got the help to run out and get a shovel. They dug and and dug a hole in the moist ground. Buried that bottle and prayed some more. Sure enough on wedding day the meadow was in full bloom. Daisies everywhere. From that day forward Betty Mae and legend of buried bourbon stays true.
This post was edited on 9/26/22 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 9/26/22 at 7:22 pm to PowerTool
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Exactly. This is another gimmick for the kind of people who spend hundreds of thousands to have their weddings at some outdoor venue just outside of town that was carefully constructed to look like an old barn. Southern Living, Texas Monthly, etc, all cater to wealthy transplants trying to out-local the locals.
Yep. It’s like the SEC Network giving Marty Smith a show.
Posted on 9/26/22 at 7:27 pm to djmed
We did this
Dug it up after ceremony
ETA
My wife and I both have family’s that have been in the Deep South since Louisiana purchase. Her mother, from the Delta in Mississippi, did this at her wedding, god knows how long ago.
So it’s a thing, just not widespread. It might be a plantation thing. We both have those in our family.
Dug it up after ceremony
ETA
My wife and I both have family’s that have been in the Deep South since Louisiana purchase. Her mother, from the Delta in Mississippi, did this at her wedding, god knows how long ago.
So it’s a thing, just not widespread. It might be a plantation thing. We both have those in our family.
This post was edited on 9/26/22 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 9/26/22 at 7:29 pm to djmed
NEVER!!!
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