Re: chairs and weddings

[KLEZMER313 <KLEZMER313...>]

In a message dated 7/16/99 5:01:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, enr01 (at) 
gnofn(dot)org 
writes:

<< It is interesting to pontificate on this theme, but activities arise and 
fall
 all the time, especially now that communication is so rapid and complete. I
 refer to the fact that a few years ago at a wedding here in New orleans we
 carried the bride and groom on chairs, and then did the mother and father
 because , it was said that when the last child is married off the parents
 also go in the chairs. Since then at weddings in various parts of the country
 I have seen parents carried even if it wasn't the last child. And recently in
 bar and bat mitzvahs they have carried the honoree and sometime the parents
 also. So go figure it out. Tradition ain't tradition no more.
         ellllllllllllll >>
 
In Tampa the tradition is to carry the person who will pay the band around in 
a chair and not let him/her down until they write the check........

:-)

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