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Skipping the bouquet toss?

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Re: Skipping the bouquet toss?

  • I am skipping both, most of the people invited to my wedding are all couples or already married! In place of them we are going to play the shoe game to keep it cute and fun!
  • I am skipping it and the garter toss. I have always hated that part of weddings. Now that I am getting married most of our friends are already married or are engaged, so I dont see any point in doing it. I would rather spend that time dancing and enjoying time with our guests.
  • I was planning to skip it but my widowed MIL wanted the bouquet toss. I was not so hard over on not doing it, so we did it. Also did the garter. But do what you want. Don't have regrets.
  • I am not doing it because I'll have 2 single women at my reception and that would be cruel to make them fight over it!  I had a married friend tell me that I "had to do it" because when she tossed her bouquet she felt like she had all the power!  She enjoyed taunting the single ladies with fake throws.  Cruel and unusual punishment is what those tosses are!
  • I just got married this weekend and did not do the bouquet toss (or garter). It was my second wedding too, and most of my ladies are married (or divorced) so it just didn't make sense.  Trust me, no one missed it and no one was uncomfortable by making my 3 single girl friends  try to catch a bouquet (hence, drawing attention to the fact they are single).

    Congrats and have fun!
  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_customs-traditions_skipping-the-bouquet-toss?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:36Discussion:ebddbd7f-d978-450a-9f24-b2601c5d789aPost:b4c32f0b-4420-47d4-a729-c3d804854bbf">Skipping the bouquet toss?</a>:
    [QUOTE]I am considering skipping the bouquet toss at my wedding. This is my second wedding and most of the ladies who will be there are either already married or young girls. The reception is very short and I want to prioritize what all we do. We are definitely skipping the garter toss. Is it weird to skip the bouquet? Have any of y'all ever done that?
    Posted by lindseymon[/QUOTE]
    I went to a wedding a few weeks ago and avoided the bouqet toss at all costs!
  • I like them both and only think they are degrading traditions if you make them that way. No one should ever be forced to the dance floor or have a garter put on them by a stranger. That being said, I am a 35 year old bride so there won't be too many single ladies at my wedding. I plan on tossing the bouquet to my flower girls, my nieces.
  • I was planning on skipping them too.  I am having such a small wedding that there would only be a 2 or 3 single ladies that I don't want to call out and I have had a couple of uncles pass away young (relatively recently), so I would hate to bring up an potential upsetting situation for my aunts.  I think maybe it is time for this tradition to be retired : ) 
  • I skipped it at my first wedding, not on purpose though it was a Friday night and well it ran late and people left, so I will be doing it at by FH and I's wedding, not to mention FH has never been married so I want him to experience it all :) I am almost thinking of just doing the bouquet that splits into single roses so girls aren't expecting it!!
  • Thank goodness! I don't feel so goofy skipping mine now!
  • We're completely skipping both as well.  Both of us have been married before and skipping alot of "traditions".  Neither of us are very traditional.  Your wedding should be whatever you and your FH want it to be and not what others feel it should be.  It's your day not theirs.
  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_customs-traditions_skipping-the-bouquet-toss?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:36Discussion:ebddbd7f-d978-450a-9f24-b2601c5d789aPost:b4c32f0b-4420-47d4-a729-c3d804854bbf">Skipping the bouquet toss?</a>:
    [QUOTE]I am considering skipping the bouquet toss at my wedding. This is my second wedding and most of the ladies who will be there are either already married or young girls. The reception is very short and I want to prioritize what all we do. We are definitely skipping the garter toss. Is it weird to skip the bouquet? Have any of y'all ever done that?
    Posted by lindseymon[/QUOTE]
     I am skipping the bouquet toss too!
    "It's always better when we're together." -Jack Johnson
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