Anyone not doing a Bouquet Toss?

We had a very small wedding (no reception) and did not do the toss.... but even when we were planning a larger wedding/reception we had decided not to do the bouquet or garter toss....

I'm not doing either. Most our my friends and family are either married or in long committed relationships. It would be a bit awkward for the flower girls to be the only ones vying for the bouquet lol

Tradition always makes people think they HAVE to do everything by the book....not true...she'll get over it...

We tossed those traditions out too. We didn't have many single people either and I never really liked the tradition. So my throw away bouquet we gave to the couple who had been married the longest by having the anniversary dance. All married couples danced and the dj called out timeframes and if hadn't been married as long as he said then you sat down. It went on until we had only one couple left. Everyone loved it!

We aren't doing it either. We are only going to have about 7 girls that aren't married and the oldest one of them is 17. The only unmarried guy is a 12 year old.

I agree, for ALL the same reasons as you lol... we won't be doing it either.

There are plenty of brides on here not doing those traditions. She can't force you to do it, it's about what you and your FH want.

I'm still doing it because in our entourage, we don't do it for the single people only, it's everyone and we always put a twist to it, at my friend's wedding last year, two married guests caught them (not married to each other) and they switched the role, it was very funny.

FH and I plan to blindfold the guy who caught the garter and replace the girl with someone else, not sure yet but it's bound to be very funny.

Don't feel bad about it, just try to explain it to your mom that you don't want to do it.

Me neither! I agree w/ you - I hate the tradition. I stopped going up for it years ago. I was in a wedding last year where they didn't do it, and no one noticed/cared that I know of. I actually was happy they didn't.

Funny story - my SIL threw her boquet at her/my bro's wedding 7 yrs ago. My mom tried to get me to stand up to catch it, but I didn't want to. My parents are divorced, so I told mom that I'd go stand up if she goes with me. Neither of us went.

We aren't doing either. The only single lady I can think of is my step father's recently widowered mother (who is 92!p...I don't think she's gonna be diving for a bouquet! lol. The only single guy, I think, is the best man, who lives with one girl, and dates at least one other (permanent bachelor!). Everyone else is married or engaged....so kinda pointless. Plus then I get to keep the bouquet!

Oh Patricia, she definitely won't try to "force me" to have it. She isn't that type of person. She was just shocked that I didn't want it.

I'm glad to see there are other people cutting these "traditions" from their event list.

We're not. We also aren't doing a 'first dance', 'cake cutting', 'father-daughter', 'mother-son', 'dollar dance', or really any other special thing that I can't think of right now. We're just having a party with an open bar, kick ass band, and yummy food.

We didn't do the garter at all.

We meant to do a bouquet toss, but only for my junior and junior bridesmaids- my nieces (ages 9 to 16) were excited about trying to catch it :-) I had planned to do it during the band break but my family did a surprise singing presentation and I forgot all about it. I don't think anyone noticed that we didn't do either tradition.

I was all for not doing this im not big on traditions. Then I ran across a blog on how to make a "Lucky" bouquet and garter and then I changed my mind. I am going to include all the guest not just single people..I know its not the norm but I dont care lol I want everyone to have a chance to get "lucky" ha!

Those are actually really cute Anna! I love scratch off lottery tickets haha

Love the idea Anna, that is awesone, by the way, we're going to tie a $20 or $50 bill on the garter, and a $20 or $50 inside the bouquet.

We didn't do it for the same reasons as you..what I did instead was give my bouquet to my grandma and gave her a small speech in front of everyone about how much I appreciate and love her. Hello waterworks! lol people were commenting all night about how they liked that I did that. :-)

We're not doing the tosses either. We're only having 30 people, and everyone is married or coupled up. There's no point lol

We didn't do it either... it's a very hetero tradition and our wedding was neither

We arent doing the garter toss but for the bouquet toss we are doing a money bouquet so i am having all of the women up for the toss it will be entertaining

We aren't doing it either because I'm not even carrying a bouquet. We are going to do an anniversary dance instead.

We didn't do either toss, for basically the same reasons as those listed above. Plus, we didn't want to break up the party!