Burying the Bourbon

A Southern Tradition

I am a sucker for traditions and this is one I have been pleading with Jess to do at UTCF for a long time.

In the south there is a wonderful tradition of burying a full bourbon bottle upside down on the grounds where you will be married a month out of your wedding date. The tradition goes that if all of these things are done there will be no rain on your big day.

Once the wedding takes place and rain was not a wedding crasher the couple can then dig up the bottle and celebrate their good fortune!

The roadblock that I kept getting was – what do we do if a couple does this and it still rains (I guess someone…not naming names…doesn’t holdfast to traditions like this!). Well there is a perfectly good answer – they simply dig up the bottle and “drown” out the rain with the bourbon. See problem solved!

After many months of hemming and hawing and a great client event where we became very educated on bourbon (and she found a favorite), I got the go ahead for our first Burying the Bourbon at Up the Creek Farms! Tim grabbed the shovel and they picked a spot and the tradition found a home!My trusty sidekick and I (she was in charge of keeping the dogs at bay and don’t mind my *amazing* photo skills…I am much better at arranging other peoples photos than taking my own!) headed down a month before the big day (yes that’s right, we have a wedding of our own in LESS THAN A MONTH!!!!!) for Jess and Tim to send out to the southern tradition Gods that there is to be no rain on their big day!

And Jess wanted to make extra sure so she added her version of a “no rain dance” to the mix.

Here’s to no rain on the 23rd and that we can find that stick!!