All of my friends are either married or engaged so half the girls at the wedding will be also..instead of doing the bouquet toss to the single ladies have any of you heard of handing your bouquet to the woman that impacted your life the most & then giving a small speech?
Im seriously thinking about doing this and handing it over to my mom.
Re: bouquet toss
Another idea to consider in your situation might be an Anniversary Dance. We are probably doing this at our wedding (as well as a bouquet toss), but often it can be done in lieu of the bouquet toss.
Here's how it usually goes if you haven't heard of it:
DJ asks all married couples to come onto the floor to dance. Then after a few moments he asks all couples married less than 24 hours to leave the floor, then less than 1 year, 5 years, etc. until you are left with the couple married the longest. Then you can present the woman in that couple with your bouquet and you or the DJ can ask them to offer some advice on how to have a long happy marriage.
Don't feel obligated to do the bouquet toss. Any of these things are just ways to honor people and/or marriage. HTH
[QUOTE]Giving the bouquet to your mom sounds like a great idea. Another idea to consider in your situation might be an Anniversary Dance. We are probably doing this at our wedding (as well as a bouquet toss), but often it can be done in lieu of the bouquet toss. Here's how it usually goes if you haven't heard of it: DJ asks all married couples to come onto the floor to dance. Then after a few moments he asks all couples married less than 24 hours to leave the floor, then less than 1 year, 5 years, etc. until you are left with the couple married the longest. Then you can present the woman in that couple with your bouquet and you or the DJ can ask them to offer some advice on how to have a long happy marriage. Don't feel obligated to do the bouquet toss. Any of these things are just ways to honor people and/or marriage. HTH
Posted by felicia6[/QUOTE]
I love this idea!
But, if it were done publicly, I would have also been a little uncomfortable if no recognition by the groom of HIS mom was done. I'm not sure how to alleviate that, but just putting it out there as a thought.
Giving the flowers to someone who has touched your life is a very cool idea.
IMO bouquet tosses, garter tosses, WP only head tables, dollar dances and anything else along those lines is outdated and a bit tacky...
[QUOTE]All of my friends are either married or engaged so half the girls at the wedding will be also..instead of doing the bouquet toss to the single ladies have any of you heard of handing your bouquet to the woman that impacted your life the most & then giving a small speech? Im seriously thinking about doing this and handing it over to my mom.
Posted by lam11[/QUOTE]
What a great idea! It gave me goosebumps just reading it <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />
Call me Cheap, I call it growing up!
I'm going to invite all the ladies, single and married so come up. My toss bouquet will actually be something like a dozen roses (or whatever looks good at the grocery store) and each stem will have a ribbon on it with some kind of fortune about love, to the effect of "may your life be filled with love." The stems won't be tied together and so when I throw them, they will come apart and a dozen or so women will each get a rose with a fortune.
Call me Cheap, I call it growing up!
We opened up the bouquet and garter belt toss to everyone married or single. We then gave a gift card to the girl and guy who made the catch and had them take a picture together, instead of having the guy put the garter belt on her leg.
I'm not doing a bouquet toss, either, and I am going to give my bouquet to my mom. But I'm not going to give a speech about it.