Kathleen meets the wedding-night whipping Bride

One of the more interesting couples James and I met back when we were seeking like-minded couples to meet and perhaps ‘play’ with was a young couple from New York. It was late 2005 between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We took a trip to New York City on a chartered bus with a tour group. It was one of those packaged deals where for a single price you get transportation to and from the city, a hotel room and show tickets. The rest of the time is yours to do with as you please.

It was freezing cold in New York that weekend with wind-chills around zero but that didn’t stop us from walking around and looking at the decorated storefront windows on Fifth Avenue, visiting Rockefeller Center, Central Park, Times Square and other tourist spots.

We had booked this trip in the early summer and I wasn’t planning on any kind of D&S or Femdom encounters. However, I was contacted by a couple who lived in New York, not in the city but somewhere in the state. They were seeking to meet like-minded couples and saw my ad on Elise Sutton’s site. After exchanging a few e-mails, I talked to the young lady, Suzanne, over the phone and told her about our upcoming trip to New York City. I offered to meet her and her husband for lunch or dinner if they were willing to come to Manhattan. She agreed but only if I would let her husband pay for dinner.

We met them at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. I was surprised by how young Suzanne looked. She was actually 30 but she looked like she was barely 20. She was short and petite with red hair. People probably thought she was my daughter seeing we had the same hair color. I wasn’t old enough to be her mother but because she looked so young I felt as if I were a generation older.

We didn’t have a reservation and the place was packed so we had to wait at the bar for over an hour for a table. It worked out because that gave us more time to talk with them. She was carded and that’s how I found out she was 30. Because the restaurant was crowded, we mostly talked about vanilla things. We learned that her husband, his name was either Sean or Don (James and I still disagree on that), was in his mid 30’s and was some kind of a computer guru. Suzanne said she worked in telecommunications or something like that. They were cat people. We were dog people (although we also have cats). They had been married for only three years and had just celebrated a wedding anniversary the previous weekend. James ordered a bottle of wine so we could toast the couple. That was the least we could do seeing they were paying for dinner.

After we ate, they asked us if we had plans. We didn’t so they asked us if we wanted to go somewhere where we could talk some more. They said they knew of a lounge that wasn’t too far and it was dark and intimate where we could talk more freely. We hailed a cab to the lounge which was in the basement of another restaurant.

There was live music which was nice, a male guitar player and a female keyboard player. Sean (or Don) tipped someone to secure us a booth in a back corner, away from most people. It was a nice spot to sit. We could still hear the music but it wasn’t too loud to where we couldn’t talk.

We shared with them about our femdom marriage, our exploits with ClubFEM, and my association with Elise Sutton and Predominant. They shared with us how they had met at TES (The Eulenspiegel Society), which is a BDSM group that meets in New York City. Suzanne said she had been involved with the lifestyle since she was eighteen. She was much more experienced than her husband when they met. He was new to TES but she had been attending leather and BDSM functions for many years. Suzanne said she was a switch prior to meeting Sean but he was 100% submissive so she embraced the role of 100% Domme in their relationship.

We talked about many things that night but the one story she told us that left a lasting impression was about their wedding night. She wanted to have a Femdom ceremony with all kinds of wild symbolism such as her riding the groom down the aisle, having him on a leash and collar and having their vows being all about Sean promising to submit to her and obey her.

But the more they planned the wedding, they realized in order to invite family and vanilla friends, they couldn’t do a femdom ceremony. So they were married in a Catholic Church in a traditional ceremony.

However, on their wedding night, instead of going to a hotel, they went back to their apartment. Suzanne had been practicing using a single tail and a bullwhip at TES events on other submissive men. Sean had been spanked by Suzanne and mildly disciplined but he had never been whipped. He wanted to experience it but was a little afraid. The closer they got to their wedding day, Suzanne decided that to set the proper mood for the marriage, on their wedding night, she would administer a very harsh whipping to her new husband.

She said she trained him leading up to the big day, using floggers and other lighter implements on him, but she was holding back to make sure the wedding night was memorable. When they got to their apartment after the wedding reception (Sean was not allowed to drink at the reception  other than one glass of champagne to make sure his blood wasn’t thinned from the alcohol – a wise course of action and evidence that Suzanne was well educated about such things), she tied Sean to the bedposts at the bottom of their bed in a standing and upright position. He was totally naked.

Suzanne went and dressed in her wedding night outfit but it wasn’t white lace, it was black leather. The bride began to whip her groom with soft implements and finally graduated to the single tail and the bullwhip. She said she marked him up real bad (or real good depending on your point of view) and totally broke him physically and mentally and then and only then did she consummate their marriage by having sex with her new husband.

I asked her if such whippings had become a regular part of their marriage and surprisingly she said they had not because Sean fears being whipped that severely after that night. She said she mostly spanks him when she disciplines him. However, each year on their anniversary, she administers a severe whipping with the single tail and bullwhip to remind him of her absolute dominance over him in the marriage. It has become a once a year whipping ritual for them.

Now, it makes for a fascinating tale, I grant you that, but I still had my doubts. I kind of thought to myself she was telling us this story to impress us. I didn’t care either way but wouldn’t you know it, she wanted to prove to us that their story was true. She had her husband go into the restroom and remove his shirt and sweater and return to the booth only wearing his sports jacket around his back. He came back to our booth and although it was dark she had him slide the jacket down his shoulders to around his waist and we could see the marks. They were a week old as their anniversary was the previous weekend but the marks were still very noticeable. She then said something like “If you think his back is marked, you should see his ass.”

I was shocked and pretty much speechless. No wonder they only do it once a year. Suzanne was proud as if those marks on her husband were a badge of honor. You just never know who you might meet when you advertise looking for femdom couples.

They talked about us maybe coming up to their house in the spring or maybe they would come and visit us, but it never happened. Still, it was another interesting night and one I will never forget. I hope all is well with Suzanne and Sean these days.