Have you ever been to, or even heard of a chivaree?
Hint: it's a folk custom concerning marriage.
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purplepen · 51-55, F
No, is it like a chivalrous jamboree?
Mamapolo2016 · F
@purplepen Well, kinda. I was at one when I was eleven. And there are different kinds. It can mean a sort of parade to celebrate a marriage, and arguably, the custom in some areas for wedding guests or groomsmen and bridesmaids to decorate the 'just married' car and trail the couple through town with horns blaring.
The one I went to was a bit different. It was in Northwestern Pennsylvania. There, when the wedding was over, and the bride and groom went home to their house, wedding guests and neighbors would swarm down on the place with pots and pans, horns, rocks in tin cans, anything that made an obnoxious noise, and 'chivaree' the couple endlessly until they broke down and served coffee and cake. The chivaree-ers usually supplied the cake.
The one I attended was the marriage of a man in his seventies to a woman in her late sixties, her first marriage.
The one I went to was a bit different. It was in Northwestern Pennsylvania. There, when the wedding was over, and the bride and groom went home to their house, wedding guests and neighbors would swarm down on the place with pots and pans, horns, rocks in tin cans, anything that made an obnoxious noise, and 'chivaree' the couple endlessly until they broke down and served coffee and cake. The chivaree-ers usually supplied the cake.
The one I attended was the marriage of a man in his seventies to a woman in her late sixties, her first marriage.
Mamapolo2016 · F
purplepen · 51-55, F
@Mamapolo2016 lol
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Yes of course we chivareed our son and daughter in law.
purplepen · 51-55, F
You have to tell us what it is, or I will ask Mr Google.
ColonelFlytrap · 70-79, M
Heard of, but I live in the South.