Brides of Freakscene: The Wedding Party
Posted on 21st Feb 12 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 
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Gentlemen. Prepare to make yourselves scarce.
Gentlemen, it is a leap year. And all around the country, ladies (and gentlemen) are plotting and laying traps for innocent, handsome young men in anticipation of the day tradition holds can make them the pursuers of engagements.
Cork’s indie nightclub Freakscene is all for this abhorrent behaviour, and is in fact suggesting that our kind can be ensnared by these temptresses and made into their manservants. So much so, in fact, that they’re running a night for it. Partially.
It’s Freakscene’s Wedding Party, and people are encouraged to dress the part. If you can’t be bothered, dress as a celeb and get matched up with another faux-celeb. Just watch out for impromptu marriage “proposals” and make sure your ring-finger is well-hidden!
The night is run in conjunction with UCC LGBT Soc. Here’s a presser.
Freakscene may have to run for another 28 years or more before another leap year, Febuary 29th, coincides with a Freakscene date! So we’ve decided to fully embrace the occasion and host a massive Wedding Party!!
Well, 3 Nights (-ish) rolled into one night!
1) It is a Wedding Party, dress as a Bride, Groom, Bridesmaid, Priest, Wedding Singer, Altar Boy, Drunk uncle…whatever!!
2) It is an Alternative Pairs Night, you select to be one half of a celebrity couple with a badge from us, find your other half, get hitched and photographed in our Just Married Photo Booth!
3) It is Feb 29th so women can propose to men or to other women and men to men!
The first 50 people to arrive wearing wedding attire will receive a free shot!
Much more info soon via our mailing list, if you’re not already joined up, do so now at www.freakscene.com/mailinglist.htm
The night is being run in conjunction yet again with our good friends in UCC LGBT!
Win FREE passes by entering our competition at
www.freakscene.com/bridesoffreakscene.htm
Apparently the February 29th tradition began in Ireland. As the story goes, the tradition of women romantically pursuing men in leap years began in 5th century Ireland, when St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick about the fair sex having to wait for men to propose. Patrick finally relented and set February 29th aside as the day allowing women the right to ask for a man’s hand in marriage.
The tradition continued in Scotland, when Queen Margaret declared in 1288 that on February 29th a woman had the right to pop the question to any man she fancied. Menfolk who refused were faced with a fine in the form of a kiss, a silk dress, or a pair of gloves to be given to the rejected lady fair.
A similar modern American tradition, Sadie Hawkins Day, honors “the homeliest gal in the hills” created by Al Capp in the cartoon strip Li’l Abner. In the famous story line, Sadie and every other woman in town were allowed on that day to pursue and catch the most eligible bachelors in Dogpatch. Although the comic strip placed Sadie Hawkins Day in November, today it has become almost synonymous with February 29th.
via Brides of Freakscene – The Wedding Party.
