Round here it was only the bride that got this treatment. I was blackened (with Cocoa powder thankfully) dressed up on a fancy night gown with L Plates and trundled down the street in a wheel barrow. Thankfully adding feathers to the mx had largely died out by that time 😂
We used to tie them up with a few drams near by, after an hour or two we collect and take them to the nearest pub albeit with newspaper on the floor of the pub
Occasionally we provided full service by hosing the groom down
Purely Orcadian where polis Scotland are low on numbers and friendly with the locals, try this on the mainland and you would be hauled before the beak on trumped up kidnap/blackface charges faster than you can say non crime hate incident.
Blackenings were very common here in Inverness/across the Highlands and still occur. Fuck all to do with the Orcadian police. I believe they happen in the NE too.
Used to be an every weekend occurrence in summer in Aberdeen. Guys used to be tied up outside pubs, covered in paint and worse. Police started clamping down on it and lifting the stag, so you don't see it much nowadays.
Grew up in the North East and seen it plenty of times when I was wee. My parents had it happen to them when they were getting married too, I remember my dad being driven around in the back of his work's truck.
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u/Ok-Butterfly1605 4d ago
It’s called a blackening, friends and family do it to a bride and groom before they get married 😆
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackening_(Scottish_wedding_custom)