With your favorite bourbon, a handful of basil, and a little lemon juice, you’re on your way to a perfect afternoon on the front porch. Visit the link in our profile to get the recipe for Ivy Odom’s Bourbon Basil Smash, plus shop her adorable wicker cocktail shaker from Dillards!
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00:00We buried a bottle of bourbon before our southern wedding and people were shocked to know why.
00:05There's a southern tradition that says you should bury a bottle of bourbon a month before your
00:09wedding if you want to have good weather on your wedding day. So a month before our wedding,
00:13my husband and I dug a hole, put a bottle of bourbon upside down in the dirt at the site of
00:20our wedding. It's not a super well-known tradition, but there are some southerners like me and my
00:25husband that swear by it. I'm happy to report that the weather on our late April wedding could
00:32not have been better. And what does any of that have to do with the cocktail that I'm making right
00:37now? Well, our signature wedding drink was called the basil smash, appropriately named after our dog
00:44Basil. And two years later, people are still talking about the bourbon basil smash that we
00:50served at our wedding. Y'all, it is so good. She's just the sweetest, most beautiful angel I've ever seen in my whole life.