our wedding is exactly 2 months away! yay! so excited! All the planning is going well (good thing, I want to be finished before school starts back up again!). But we are running into an issue with the garter toss tradition. Every wedding in both of our families has had one, neither of our families are particularly religious, and neither of us are shy by any means... but I am rather uncomfortable with my FI putting his hand up my dress in front of all our family and friends. He thinks that this tradition is hilarious and is insistent that we do it. I should probably add that he has had very very little requests for the wedding.
Does anyone have any ideas for alternatives or maybe some kind of compromise? Please help!
Re: Garter Toss
This is a super tacky, TMI tradition IMHO and if it makes you uncomfortable SAY NO. I realize he hasn't had many requests but its not right to do it for that reason. If he requested stuff that didn't make you uncomfortable, I'm sure you'd agree so say yes to those things. Not this.
We are not doing this at all but I have seen suggestions that the garter and bouquet could be used as part of the Longevity Dance. The couple married the longest gets them after they have given you some marriage advice. Perhaps you could promise your groom that he can have a private garter removal?
If there has to be a garter removal at all, I'd just do it in private.