Comments on: Southern Wedding Tradition :: Burying the Bourbon

By: Burying Bourbon | A Tasty Life

Burying Bourbon | A Tasty Life — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:54:36 +0000

[...] Southern folklore says that if you bury a bottle of bourbon at the site where the bride and groom are to be married, then it won’t rain on their wedding day. According to many believers, this must be done exactly one month before the wedding, the bottle must be completely full and it must be buried upside down in order for it to keep the rain away. [...]

By: Abby @ Belle & Beau Antiquarian

Abby @ Belle & Beau Antiquarian — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:50:10 +0000

We love your post and we have included it in a roundup of Southern traditions. We linked it back to your post. ;) Check it out here: http://belleandbeauantiquarian.blogspot.com/2012/11/10-southern-traditions-that-yall-should.html

By: Wedding Traditions ✈ Southern Belle | Fly Away Bride

Wedding Traditions ✈ Southern Belle | Fly Away Bride — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:08:52 +0000

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:53:51 +0000

Our wedding was June 9th and thanks to the bottle of bourbon we had fantastic weather!! Bright and sunny skies with a little breeze and cooler than normal in Charleston for June. We were esctatic and had a wonderful wedding day!

And then the next day it was overcast and raining off and on So in my opionion, the tradition works :)

By: Marissa

Marissa — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:58:46 +0000

Oh how fun! You’ll have to let us know if it works! Fingers crossed for you!! xx

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:19:08 +0000

We are having an outdoor ceremony on June 9th and I am so nervous that it is going to rain. When I read about this tradition, I just knew we had to do it! Just last weekend my fiancee and I went to our ceremony site in Charleston, SC and buried a bottle of bourbon. Now let’s just keep our fingers crossed that it works!!

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:27:09 +0000

I love this website! My fiance and I are both southern, as well our whole families live below the Mason Dixon. We are going to do this for our September 1st wedding!

By: Marissa

Marissa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:31:21 +0000

Glad to hear it worked, Julia! That’s all that counts, right?!

By: Julia C

Julia C — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:00:24 +0000

We did this for my sisters wedding though our understanding was that you should chose a day that you want the weather to be like and then we buried the bourbon. The hardest part was deciding which day was the best weather and thankfully it worked!

Being that the reception was in my parent’s backyard there weren’t any issues with being allowed to do it. However, we never dug it back up! In all the craziness it is still in the garden.

Love the idea of photographing the event as well as digging up the bottle and drinking it in celebration!

By: Sarah O

Sarah O — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:15:06 +0000

This is such a cute idea! I’m going to try the reception site option too since I don’t feel right burying bourbon on the church grounds. Hopefully it will still work for a South Carolina wedding! ;)

By: Marissa

Marissa — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:23:42 +0000

Oh, I’m sorry it rained on your wedding day! I’m sure it was still beautiful!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:09:36 +0000

Wish I had known about this on my wedding day! It rained cats and dogs! Probably would have had to “bury” (read: under a bush and not in dirt) it at the country club reception, as the church did not allow any alcohol on site ;-)

Rest assured, plenty of bourbon was enjoyed that evening!

By: AmandaR

AmandaR — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:20:47 +0000

One other thing: According to Wikipedia :) Although Jack Daniel’s whiskey generally meets the regulatory criteria for classification as a straight bourbon, the company disavows this classification and markets it simply as Tennessee whiskey rather than as Tennessee bourbon. So we are going with Wikipedia’s classification for our Tennessee wedding and burying the bourbon – Jack Daniel’s!

By: AmandaR

AmandaR — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:18:57 +0000

My future sister-in-law told me of this tradition and I have since insisted that we do it for our June 9th wedding! Our reception is being held outdoors, on my mom’s Tennessee farm, so I need all the help I can get, superstitious or not. We also plan on drinking a bourbon and coke cocktail after we’ve dug up the bottle in our monogrammed Mason jars! And our party favors for our guests will include mini Jack Daniel’s bottles in the Mason jars, it’s all about a theme, right?

By: Marissa

Marissa — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:58:35 +0000

Haha! I’d have to agree, Madelynne! I’m not sure that’s the best idea.

By: madelynne miller

madelynne miller — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:10:13 +0000

That is so funny and neat – but I can’t very easily bury a bottle of bourbon in a church sanctuary!