Bouquet toss but no garter toss / Alternatives to them

Every wedding I've been to has done these, even the super conservative no-dance, bride-must-wear-sleeves, dry wedding still had a bouquet & garter toss.

I'm thinking of skipping because we just don't have a lot of single people coming, and I feel weird "singling" them out. We're one of the last to get married (at "only" 29) so everyone else is already married with kids! I know when I was "single" (ie., in a long-term relationship but not engaged yet), I NEVER went up to catch the bouquet. People would push me because they knew how much I wanted to get married to my FH, and I always refused to go up.

The past few weddings I have been to have just done the bouquet toss. As long as you have a good amount of non married/engaged females, I think you will be fine. I have also been forcefully told to get on the dance floor after I got engaged, so I went up to assist one of my single friends who really wanted to catch it. Before I got engaged, I would have been disappointed to not see a bouquet toss. I am competitive and it was one of my fav parts of weddings.

Garter toss is gross. Bouquet is okay.

I'm planning to present my bouquet to my mom. She and my dad would have been married 50 years this year but my dad passed away last year.

I will throw my bouquet because I think it's funny and we are placing a garter on a football so he can throw to buddies... Half the men there will be football players

We are doing the bouquet toss and garter toss. My FH thinks garters are weird so we are just putting it around my calf so he's not all up in my business in public. He's going to wrap it around a football and throw it.

I look back at photos of mine and there were marrieds and some men in the mix. I dunno, it's changed and if you are adamantly against it, no one can really force you to participate. I like to think none of my guests would've been dragging anyone else on the floor to participate. They were all smashed and perfectly willing to get involved.

We're skipping the bouquet toss but doing the garter retrieval.

I was thinking of doing a married couples dance and the longest couple standing (dj announces years of marriage) gets the bouquet. But idk yet. My floral package includes a *free* bouquet toss bouquet, so I'm looking for ways to use it. Although every wedding I've been to this year has had a bouquet toss. I think you just have to know your crowd.

A wedding I went to some years back did gift baskets in place. The longest married couple got a basket representing the flowers and the most recently married couple got a basket representing the garter. Thought that was a neat way to handle it.

That being said my wedding is going to have a bouquet toss but no garter toss.

I have a question for everyone... So, I was talking with my cousin's live-in girlfriend & she asked me if I was doing the bouquet/garter tosses. I told her I didn't want to, but needed to convince FH. She tells me that it's stupid. Then, she says that people criticize her because she never wants to participate in them. Her reasoning is that she isn't single, she's in a committed relationship. She even criticized me for participating in a bouquet toss last year at my cousin's wedding. I told her, I wasn't engaged/married at the time & it's just for fun & FH didn't feel "disrespected." So, is she right? What do you ladies/gentlemen think? Can you do the bouquet/garter toss if you're in a committed relationship?

I participated in one when I was engaged. I think it's for any non marrieds but guests usually make up their own rules.