Good Luck On Your Wedding Day?

85% Chance of rain was in the forecast for Erin & Sean's Wedding!

We drove into the venue with pouring rain, the windshield whippers couldn't go fast enough.

Vendors were arriving running their equipment in as fast as they could...

BUT...

Then right after before (I mean minutes before) the first look, that we intended to do inside due to the rain, IT STOPPED!

The Sun actually came out!

(Did I mention that Accuweather said 85% chance of rain - every hour)

You take a bottle of bourbon, and bury it at your venue a month before your wedding. Then, on the day of your nuptiuals, you and your new partner dig up the bottle together as a part of the ceremony. The luck-imbued freshly dug-up bourbon is then incorporated into your ceremony, either as a toast, or a sumptuous ritual where you take your first sips together, or as a symbolic blending ceremony.

And it’s not just for fun.  According to John of the wedding venue website Black Mountain Sanctuary, it a completely legitimate way to keep your wedding rain-free. After he saw one couple achieve a rainless wedding day by burying the bourbon,  he recommends it to other couples and has yet to see any of them suffer a soggy wedding day.

Whether or not that’s true, we’ll leave it up to the weathermen. What we do know is that this tradition and ceremony lends an air of powerful sentimentality to any wedding.