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These Rhyme Without Reason Ideas Are Perfect For A Greek Life Date Party

Springtime is here… and so is sorority event season. Whether you’re in Greek life, dating someone who is affiliated, or dating someone in a sorority or fraternity, this time of year is full of date parties, formals, and a whole bunch of events where dressing up is mandatory. As a former Greek life participant, and someone who has been to their fair share of date parties, I’m the first to tell you that your social calendar for the spring semester will be full of events. And, in 2023, you should expect to attend at least one rhyme-without-reason-themed sorority date party. I don’t make the rules, here!

Since 2022, the rhyme without reason party theme has been all over the internet. The rules are as follows: you and your partner (or if you’re wild, you can even make it a trio) dress up as two unrelated things that rhyme. Think, Megan Fox and Goldilocks, or even a black cat and an acrobat. The less related, and funnier, the better.

While Greek life party themes have been notoriously overused (and, frankly, boring at this point), consider a rhyme without reason party to be a breath of fresh air for the 2023 Greek life event season. Goodbye toga parties, hello… word-play parties?

An AGD & A Bumblebee.

Any Alpha Gamma Deltas out there?

Sorority Girl & Alix Earle.

Bonus points if you or your date carry around Alix Earle’s AminoLean collab.

Frat Boy & Cowboy.

This is great if you dress up as the frat boy, and have your partner (or bestie) rock a cowboy hat.

A butterfly & A Pi Phi.

Have your date be a sorority sister for the night.

Maternity & fraternity.

A frat boy and a pregnant person. Enough said.

Student at university & Spilling the tea.

Bonus points if someone dresses up as that iconic Kermit meme.

A Scholar & A Baller.

How collegiate of you!

Graduated & aggravated.

Have your date dress up in all red, and you have an excuse to wear that graduation cap and gown you thought you were only going to wear once!

College & Cottage.

Grab your best preppy ‘fit (or college sweatshirt) and your cottage-core bestie.

greek God & Sweeney todd.

Aphrodite and “The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street?” I’m in.

Julianna Marie is the Wellness Editor at Her Campus — leading the site's coverage of health, wellness, sex, relationships, and mental health. Additionally, she oversees our College Try franchise, the LGBTQIA+ vertical (Free To Be) and occasionally covers astrology, entertainment, fashion and beauty, and internet culture.

Julianna's work as a screenwriter and filmmaker has also received recognition at major film festivals such as LA Shorts, Tokyo International Film Festival, the NYC Horror Film Festival, and more. Currently, she is in the process of writing her debut novel.

She graduated with a B.F.A in Screenwriting from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in May 2022, where she formed very strong opinions on movies and a love for the beach. (She's a Pisces.)

When she's not writing burning hot takes and writing about her personal life for the masses (sorry, mom), you can find Julianna cooking, going out with the girls, doing yoga the morning after going out with the girls, watching reality television with her fiancé, playing chess, or advocating for the food scene in Pittsburgh, PA. It really is that good, BTW.

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