BridesOfMarch.org
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The Brides of March
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Grab a wedding dress and join the Brides as we parade through the heart of San Francisco, strolling through Union Square, shopping at fancy stores and drinking in local bars. All you need for this event is a white wedding dress, the more elaborate, the better. Check your local thrift store for suitable attire.
DETAILS: Meet at the Ginger's Trois bar, 246 Kearny Street (near Bush) on Saturday, March 18 at 2:30 PM. We'll have a few drinks there and wait for late arrivals. If you were too chicken to wear your dress on the bus, you can change in the back of the bar. By 3:30 PM we'll be suitably liquored up for a stroll down Kearny. After making a stop at Walgreens for our pregnancy test kits and a few cheap cigars, we'll cruise by Selix formal wear, where we will proposition the handsome young store clerks. Then, back on the street, we'll turn right into Maiden Lane and race towards that big phallic thing in the middle of Union Square. From there, our thirst for more alcohol, and the bum’s rush by the corporate sponsors of our “public” square, will move us up Stockton Street for a stop at the Tunnel Top bar, 601 Bush. After the ladies have had a round or two, we'll stumble back to Post Street and skirt around Union Square, dropping into Tiffany's for that special diamond ring, visiting Mickey at the Disney Store and trying on something risque at Victoria's Secret. Then, following a 7 year tradition, we'll be ejected from the lobby of the Saint Francis by hotel security. Our excursion will climax with cheap champagne at the Gold Dust Lounge, 247 Powell, where we'll proposition tourists until we get married or thrown out.
HISTORY: Michele Michele got the idea for this annual gathering at a San Francisco thrift store in 1999. " I saw a rack of used wedding dresses and realized how often the dreams of an ideal marriage had failed and how so much of this dream has been fabricated in order to fuel the ever-increasing consumption of new products, I thought it would be funny to take the primary symbol of this sacred institution and twist it around, much like what the Cacophony Society did with the Santa Rampage, which we first did in 1994 as a response to the commercialization of Christmas."
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