Bouquet/Garter Tossing

stardust21587

Did you all have or skip on the bouquet and garter toss at your wedding (or what are your plans, if your wedding hasn't happened yet).

I don't think we're going to have many single ladies at the reception, anyways so I don't really want it to be akward for like, 2 people being singled out...also, I'm just not personally a fan of these tosses in general (but I know that some of the older generations will be expecting it). Would it be weird to just not do them? =\

sarah42nd

My MOH just asked me about this the other day.

Personally , I don't like the Garter Toss just because we will have alot of church/older guest there and I think it's weird.

Now with  the bouquet toss we only have so many single girls , unless you count all the littlew girls .lol . But also if we don't have one we don't have to make and spend money on the bouquet to throw.

So idk yet.

stardust21587

True. FI wants to do the garter toss....because, well, ..he's a dude. However, I think its a little uncomfortable to have him all up under my dress with my entire family and his family watching...what a weird tradition!!! =P

eso16208

we aren't doing either the bouquet or garter toss. I always hated the tradition.  

meghanmcadams

We are skipping, we have a lot of cousins, and do not want that awkward situation or putting our friends on display. I agree it is a wierd tradition.

brit21489

I did them and I thought they were fun. It is embarrassing but the crowd, at least mine, goes crazy and it was a good time. It helped break up the monotony of continuous dancing with a bit of excitement. I understand why people don't do them but it did make for some funny pictures and entertainment. lol

SarahSmile23

we did them and it was a lot of fun. but we didn't make the guy who caught the garter put it on the lady who caught the bouquet. and we didn't force every single person to participate. if they didn't stand up and come over, that was fine with us.

Megs30

We are going to skip them.  I don't think they will be a lot of single girls, actually I think we only will have a few single girls. 

I have never really been a fan of that tradition.

AileeneG

I was planning on doing them, but when it came time for it, it was kind of late, so there weren't very many single ladies there, and I didn't want to single out the 3 that I saw, especially since I know that at least 2 of them hate doing bouquet tosses, so I just told the DJ to skip it altogether. I don't mind them, but I don't have any big regrets about not doing it either.

stardust21587

Awesome. Its just good to know that it won't be totally weird if we DONT do it. Thanks for sharing!

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aondera

We skipped it.  Instead, we did an "anniversary" dance, and the couple that had been together the longest got to keep the toss bouquet,

lauralulu777

We're skipping both...not a fan of either.  And don't feel like you have to do anything you don't really want to do merely because it's tradition or expected by the guests...it's your and your fiance's day!  Do it your way

lauralulu777

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_florida-central-florida_bouquetgarter-tossing?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:66Discussion:00d42f75-c525-4fba-a8c3-dfbc8e8f28d7Post:6609af06-fb31-417e-a8b2-c9614a948515">Re: Bouquet/Garter Tossing</a>:
[QUOTE]We skipped it.  Instead, we did an "anniversary" dance, and the couple that had been together the longest got to keep the toss bouquet,
Posted by aondera@mac.com[/QUOTE]

That's actually a really great idea...mind if I steal it?

meghanmcadams

The anniversary dance is great I have seen it before. That's what we are thinking of doing, but we know who will "win"!

irisheyezfsu

my friend that got married did the anniversary dance, boquet toss, and garter toss. My mom was aparently so appalled when the groom went up under my friends dress to take the garter off.  Some of the slightly older/older crowd find the garter toss kinda crude aparently. I always thought we do them but reconsidering since I never liked standing for the boquet myself and would always opt out.

hmmsarcasm

yea i'm skipping those two traditions and we're having the anniversary dance and our dj is going to do a (hopefully fun) q&a segment--that sounds awful-but the way he described it was so fun to me and different-

vedika

We skipped the garter toss, well b/c I forgot the garter The bouquet toss went well and made great footage for our video! We had a lot of single ladies and it was a lot of fun! :]