Anyone else NOT doing a garter toss? Alternatives?

You could put it on your calf so you could just lift your dress a little bit for him to take it off??. or get a sheet or something and do it behind the sheet so people just see the shadows. I guess I figure that people are expecting the show. But I understand the daddy part; I'm not quite prepared for that either, but I think I'll be too busy laughing at my dorky FH.

I would do what Hannah suggested and just keep it low on your leg, you don't have to make a huge show of it and can keep it PG with how he takes it off of you. i.e. don't use teeth or stick his whole head up under your skirt lol

I'm not doing it either. It always kinda grossed me out. One less thing I have to worry about buying and packing anyway.

We skipped the garter toss for this very reason (that, and we didn't want to embarrass the unmarried men at our wedding.

I've seen a garter on a nerf football with the words "your next" written on the football. I'm not doing garter or bouquet toss or an alternative to it.

We're not doing either one, and will not have an alternate. I personally have never participated in the bouquet toss.

However, my favorite bouquet toss:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__KQFofTUk

I am not doing one. I have heard garters are super uncomfortable. The alternative is more dancing.

We aren't doing one,no alternative just not doing it

I'm wearing one because my FH insisted, but we're not doing the toss and we're not replacing it with anything.

Oh i'm wearing a garter I just want him to peel it off in a more private setting

Not doing it and not having an alternative. I'm also not doing a bouquet toss either.

We skipped it. No alternative. We also skipped the bouquet toss. I don't think anyone missed either.

We're skipping it but doing the bouquet toss. I have a garter my something blue for FH later that night.

Did he expressly tell you he's feeling "left out" because he doesn't get to do a game like your bouquet toss? You say you feel bad - but does he? Because most guys I know would rather have a beer with their friends than take the time out for a game.... why not give him the option - you may be worrying for no reason

Skipping it, its always awkward ----and the single guys never seem eager to participate in the toss. bleh.

I've seen it all - crazy show of bouquet and garter (even a wedding where the GM held the groom off the ground and he took the garter off the bride with his teeth), just bouquet, just garter (on a football so the guys would catch it), and nothing at all. You could also do a bouquet giveaway (either plan in advance someone important to give it to - your grandmother, godmother, sister, mother, etc), or do something like the married dance where all married couples are on the floor and the DJ asks them to leave with the newest married first. Give the bouquet (and/or garter) to the couple that has been married the longest. Once, this turned into the grandfather of the groom putting the garter back on his wife (over her pant suit) - they had been married for something like 60 years. What an adorable couple and an inspiration for marriage.

Do what you guys want and are comfortable with!

We skipped garter stuff and bouquet toss. Honestly, I don't even know when there would have been time for it! I would have had to skip out on talking to the few tables we had time to greet.

No one missed these "traditions" or commented on them.

We are not doing the garter or bouquet toss either. I love the idea of giving the bouquet to the couple that has been married the longest @kristin G.

That's exactly what we are doing too. The garter in the privacy of our hotel room and I'm giving my bouquet to the couple who has been married the longest.

Bottom line, do what you are comfortable with and what makes you happy. After all, it's your special day, not the guests' lol

We're skipping it as well. No need to do anything in the alternative, unless your FH wants to.

If my FH wanted to do something, I bet he'd do the football thing. But I doubt I'll even wear a garter.