Garter?

mgumms

I never really liked the garter toss and early on my fiance and I said we didn't want to do it. So now the question is, is there a reason to even wear a garter? I looked up some stuff on the tradition and it all sounds kind of awful, guests attacking the bride to rip off a piece of her clothing, so the garter was tossed to prevent her from being hurt? No thanks! Can anyone give me the reason you're wearing a garter? It might help me decide if I want one or not.

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LedZeppelin

I am also not going to do the garter toss. Watching the groom feel up the bride to find the garter always kind of weirds me out and FI and I both agree that we want no part of it.

However, I still want to wear one. For some reason it just seems kinda sexy to me, so I want to wear one just for me and FI to see.

This sounds dorky now that I'm writing it out, but that's my reason. haha.

kimheartsscott

I think feeling sexy is the main reason a bride would wear it if she isn't doing a garter toss.  FWIW, I'm not doing garter or bouquet tosses.  I probably won't wear a garter because my dress is short and fitted.

lcarp203

We are doing a spin on the garter toss.  Originally we were not going to do one for the reasons mentioned above.  Plus we are not really center of attention people so the last thing I wanted to do is sit on a chair while FI was under my dress.  But, we found a really cute idea....

I am getting one for me (you would not even have to wear one if you didn't want to) and then I am getting a second one.  We are getting a small football from FI's college alma mater (FI is a big College FB fan and went to MI state).  We are putting the fake garter around the football.  The chair will have a chair cover (or something similar) so you cant see underneath the chair.  When the chair is brought out the DJ will put the football chair with the garter around it.  He will quickly attempt to remove the garter with one hand.  But, with the other he will pull the football out with the fake garter and throw it to the men in the room while the DJ plays his college fight song.  Cute because we are both from another state, so it is a little bit of us!  And, we are on the same page so it is not the 5 min long guy under the dress ordeal.  It is more about wrapping something of us into a tradition. 
We will not be doing the dollar dance

mgumms

The football idea is cute!

HecateAZ

I think it's really up to you whether you want to wear a garter or not!

I am not wearing one throughout the day, but I think I'm going to put it on just before the toss. We don't like being the center of attention either (yah, I know, we're getting married), but he said he was OK with doing the toss. I think he just wants to reach under my dress. hehe

FutureMrsL.R.Allen

My friend did the football thing at her wedding, it was soooooo cute!  We did the garter toss, but we did a modified version, no rumaging around up my dress!  I had two garters, one that he tossed that I moved down to my lower leg before the toss so he did not have to go up my dress.  The other one was a sexier one that was a surprise for him later that night :-)

afrigon

My FI and I are doing a garter toss, but again, no going under the dress.  We were trying to figure out a way to do it without him going under my dress and decided that just before the toss I will simply hand him the garter.  I'm planning on wearing a garter belt rather than garters, so there won't be anything there for him to remove anyway.