Alternatives to Bouquet Toss and Garter Toss?

Just don't do them. No need to find anything to replace them. Most people won't even miss them.

I am presenting my mother and 4 aunts with my bouquet (plucking 4 roses from it for the aunts) rest of bouquet goes to mom. For the garter toss....if it's important to you, don't give it up. Everyone always sees something new they're not accustomed to at a wedding. Maybe that can be their new thing! You could do a PG version such as...maybe you have it ready to go on your wrist and hand it to him? Then he csn fling it to the crowd? I agree with you about the whole going under the skirt being embarrassing.

You could get those t shirt launchers and get t shirts made of your faces and launch them into the crowd.

otherwise I have no other ideas.

Since your FH is middle Eastern you may want to incorporate some of his traditions.

One tradition is having the bride and groom up on chairs during the song and everybody dances around them during it.

Another tradition is having the bride and groom dance and having flower petals thrown at them during it. Then they're supposed to kiss while the flowers are being thrown on them. See my photo from my wedding. Its a lot of fun and makes for a great picture.

We're doing an anniversary dance instead.

We're also doing an anniversary dance instead. We have a small bouquet to present to the couple that's been married the longest.

I was looking into this and something I read said if you feel uncomfortable doing it (or the reason behind) you could always bring all the women in for the bouquets toss and all the men for the garter toss and have like a small prize if they catch it rather than it being just for single people

We Skipped both, didn't replace them with anything

We are skipping it. We only have a handful of unmarried friends so it wouldn't be very exciting ha. Didn't really plan to replace it either but now I'm following to see some ideas

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I'm thinking an anniversary dance instead of the bouquet and garter toss. You're not alone!

I'm skipping both- I have plenty of beautiful single female friends but I always hated these things when I was single ( I was the person ducking in the back). I've never heard of the anniversary dance before... I like honoring people who've been married for a long time so this may be a consideration.

I'm just skipping them altogether!

An anniversary dance can be painful for for single, widowed, and gay people.

View Quoted Comment So sorry for the delayed response! Lol not sure why this app never notified me! Yes we are definitely doing the chair dance thing, I’m excited for that! We are also having our bridal party come in to Arabic music, and our entrance song is a mix of Arabic and French. Our DJ is also going to play tons of Arabic music for Debke dancing!

Love the rose petals idea, haven’t heard that one yet!

View Quoted Comment I was strongly considering the anniversary dance because my grandparents always win it at each of my cousins wedding; it has kind of become a family tradition 😊 however my sweet grandma passed on Nov 24th, so it is a bit too painful for me to have in the wedding now 😢 I think the consensus for now is that we will scrap the tosses altogether and just have more time for dancing! 🙌🏼

We're not doing the bouquet and garter toss. We decided to do the Shoe Game in place of. There is a link to a youtube video example of one, normally you hold up either your shoe or your partner's shoe to answer the questions but I really like how this couple did the handkerchief and bouquet instead.

We are not doing it. I've always found garter tosses to be tacky, and I (as a single woman) HATED going up to do the bouquet toss. So why make someone go up there if I don't like it? I thought about incorporating a moment that I pray over the girls to finding the man God has for them (I am a pastor- it's kinda my thing) but I decided that I don't really know if I'd like to do that now or not- so I think we are just going to do the shoe Game as well.

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Oh yeah! We did this for our engagement party and it was super fun, people got a kick out of it.

View Quoted Comment I’m so sorry for your loss! My grandma passed 10/20, right before my wedding. I had Christmas trees, and made photo ornaments with her picture in her memory. The day was hard but I know she would have loved it!