Pre-wedding tradition, a "doing"
dodrade
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Where I live (Tyrone) it is quite common for engaged couples to get what is called a "doing" shortly before the wedding. Their "friends" tie them up, put them in the back of a trailer covered in gunge and drive them around in a convoy with all horns blaring. I've never seen it depicted on screen or mentioned elsewhere so is it just a local thing or does it happen in other parts of the country?
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I can't think of anything worse!!!
Sounds not dissimilar to 'banging out' ceremony for apprentice printers, not seen much these days but was common around Fleet St, apprentices would be stripped covered in ink and grunge and wheeled around the streets on the last day of their apprenticeship.
Our food arrived almost at the same time as a naked man, covered in gunk, who was forcibly pushed by his mates , full frontal, onto the out side of the window.
My g/f at the time never ate pizza again.....
I thought hen and stag parties were bad enough.
If I ever get married, I promise I will not be seen tottering around Blackpool in a union jack bikini and glittery Stetson, swigging from a bottle of Malibu, the day before.
Can you guarantee the same for your bride-to-be, though?
Where I live - Mullingar - I've never heard of this. Used to live in Maynooth/Celbridge and Dublin, and still never heard of this. Must be a Tyrone thing!
Back in the 70s they did this type of thing in the factory I worked in. They used engineering blue too which was a nightmare to wash off straightaway
Union Jack bikinis and stetsons are fine though, as is Blackpool.
No, just usual pronunciation.
It's always been quite common locally, I assumed it happened to most couples and it's only recently occurred to me that it might just be a local custom. That said the Print Apprenticeship "banging out" ceremony mentioned earlier in the thread does sound very similar.
Do-ing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9jPJeHWMQ
Gawd almighty. Only a few steps removed from the ducking stool and 'there be dragons'.
I guess a few celebratory drinks and a nice meal just doesn't do it for some people..:o
Ditto the 'blackening'...what a bunch of pervy saddos.
It all sounds sad and pathetic to me, agreed.
The ones I have seen generally involve people being tied to/in a traile, covered in various things such as flour, eggs, shaving foam, ketchup etc, and then paraded around the town..
Maybe it's just a Northern Ireland thing then...
BIB ...and your problem with this is? ;-)
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Charivari. And it's actually French.