Bouquet Toss

There are some wedding traditions I love and actually really look forward to when I am a guest at weddings. I love the first dance- I think the first song can tell you a lot about a couple. I also have a soft spot in my heart for the bride's dance with her dad.


However, there are other wedding traditions that I am not so crazy about.

I am not a fan of the garter toss. I really don’t want Ohio reaching up my wedding dress in front of a bunch of my family members and friends. How embarrassing! We will not be doing that at our wedding!

I also am not a huge fan of the bouquet toss. Mostly because I always felt embarrassed to be "singled out" at a wedding as unmarried and usually used this part of a reception to use the ladies room.

I thought we would skip this tradition all together at our wedding- but I do have a couple of  family members that are super passionate about the bouquet toss. When I told them not to expect the bouquet toss at our wedding, they told me that they would miss fighting over the bouquet in the family tradition.

At my brother's wedding, two of my cousins actually ended up falling down on the dance floor in a full out rumble for the bouquet. It made for some amazing pictures that still send me into a fit of giggles every time I lok at them.

At another wedding, one of the single ladies came onto the dance floor with a huge catcher’s mitt!

 In fact, thinking back over all the weddings I've been to, there have been some fun wedding moments that involved the bouquet toss. So I've decided to toss a bouquet after all!

Are there any traditions you originally thought you would skip but have decided to go ahead and do?