A Hen Party

On Saturday night, Alexa's roommate Morna, who is from Glasgow, took a few of us on a "small" pub crawl. We went to Frankenstein, Vodka Revolution and another place on South Bridge. It was a lot of fun. We all sat around, got to know each other and laughed about the past couple of days, while singing and dancing to American music.

When I was on the plane over, I was thinking about the movie Made of Honor. If you haven't seen it before, it is with Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. It is about these two friends (Dempsey and Monaghan) and Dempsey realizes he is in love with his best friend, who happens to be marrying a Scottish Lad. To cut to the chase, and not drag on like Sary, there is this scene in the movie when Monagahan goes to a number of pubs for her bachelorette party and while she is there all the men kiss her and give her money. I was wondering if they actually do this or not; making it my mission to find out.

Well...

I completed my mission. While at Frankenstein a group of about eight lassies walked in and one happened to be the BRIDE!! She was wearing a small vail, had these cards, and an L on her back. I asked if it was a bachelorette party and I was quickly told its called A Hen Party.  Soo as usual being a Marsh I walked up to her and asked a few questions and if I could get a picture with her!

It is called A Hen Party. The L on her back stands for a learning bride. I asked what do you mean by "learning" and she said to shag and I started dieing laughing. One of her braidsmades informed me that about 10 years ago the bride would walk around with a baby's bonnet and men would through money in there so she would come home to her future husband with some money. We talked a little bit longer, ended up dancing with them and were even invited to go on their bus with them to the other pubs!!
We politely declined, since none of us where dressed to go dancing. But we happened to see them at the next pub we went to. They came right up to us and said "Oh! Our American friends" and give us all hugs and kisses.

I now need a new mission...any suggestions?