Bouquet toss When everyone is married?

View Quoted Comment My friend did the exact same thing at her wedding, it was her grandmother that got the bouquet, and that wedding was 13 years ago, times have changed with tradition

Just skip it!

View Quoted Comment That is a good thing to keep in mind. My future mother in law passed away 2 months ago. My fiancé’s parents were together going on 39 years.

View Quoted Comment Honestly I think it's a great alternative too! I have many single female friends who are happily single and I know for some, they feel awkward when they're expected to date or participate in things like that

I'm in this position as well- but haven't even considered doing anything different. I guess I really didn't think about it. I have 2 or 3 single women attending my wedding... everyone else is married with kids. I'm a late bloomer... what can I say.

I’m just skipping it! It’s always been awkward anyways

I have sort of the same issue. Most of my family is either divorced or married and I felt awkward signaling them out and saying "you are single now come on down so everyone can look at you!" lol!

So i'm doing something that no one has heard of where I live...a Cake Pull. Ladies pull out small charms from the wedding cake. Something different and you can basically choose who you think should participate. Doesn't matter if they're single or not.

View Quoted Comment I’m late to the married game but definitely not a late bloomer lol I had my oldest at 17. She’s 11 now. My fiancé and I have been together going on 7 years..... took him long enough

We're doing a community toss; ALL the guests will be invited to the floor, FH and I will say a little thing thanking them for joining us, supporting us, and being our community. Then all the bridesmaids will turn around and throw a bunch of loose flowers. No pushing or other nonsense, we're just using the alternative toss as an opportunity to speak to everyone and thank them as a group. We're not doing a garter toss.

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7 years with my FH too! Neither of us have been married or have kids. Everyone else a different story though! I'm 27 and he's 29... I can't believe we've gone this long but I'm so glad to finally start this journey with him

View Quoted Comment There is no need to rush. I like that we have waited, we got pregnant with our son after only 2 months of “kind of dating” lol (we weren’t “Facebook official” lol) then got engaged at 4 years. I can’t wait to get married so that we can get the adoption process started (he’s adopting my daughter).

But im glad I asked about the bouquet toss, I personally didn’t like trying to catch it And I’m glad that I k ow now that apparently no one else does either. If I do anything I will most likely do the longest married couple which if my ex step-grandparents come, they will win. They have been married for over 60 years.

Personally im skipping the toss, its not my thing.

View Quoted Comment Great idea!

We're skipping the bouquet and garter toss for the same reason. There will be a few single men and maybe a couple of women, but I don't want any awkwardness for anyone. We have enough of that naturally lol.

We're not doing it for the same reason!

I’ve been to so many weddings and I’ve caught about like 6 bouquets when I was single. Now that I’m getting married my fiancé and I are doing the bouquet and garter toss were only doing it for the people who are single and engaged family and friends only because we have a few family and friends who are single and engaged so I wanted to do something for them that make it fun. My aunt got married and I got her bouquet but she put a flask with alcohol in it that said bride on her bouquet and I thought that was a cute idea so I’m going to do the same for my bouquet and my fiancé is going to do the same thing for the garter toss for the guys that way it’s a gift for someone to have a drink on us along with the flowers and garter toss. We’re also going to raffle off our centerpieces to all our guests to take home and we also have our Halloween ornaments on our Halloween tree to take home as part of our thank you for coming to our wedding. So nobody gets left out everybody has their own way and traditions how to do the garter and bouquet toss these days it depends on how you do it and what feels comfortable and right and some people know these days are either married or single and not many people have a lot of single family and friends but it’s just who you know is are the people that you invite are the ones who get the prize.

We personally are not doing it I don't think. Mostly because the weddings we've been to have paired the bouquet and garter toss and we aren't doing anything with a garter lol. Too awkward having FH stick his head up my dress in front of all of our closest family and friends to grab the garter lol.

Instead we're doing a longevity dance and they will get my toss bouquet and another small gift

Were in a similar situation. I have seen people do an anniversary dance and hand it off to the longest married couple. I actually plan to hand it off to a bride-to-be that will be at our wedding, since that is the real point of the catching the bouquet anyway right?

I didn't do a bouquet toss. No one missed it. Most of my friends/family are marriend now. And, if anything, all the remaining "single ladies" were happy not to be on exhibition.

I had the same issue. I am only 24 but most of friends are older and I also felt kind of funny about "singling out" those friends who were single. Also I felt awkward about it since my FH did not like the idea of a garter toss and I felt weird just doing a bouquet toss without a garter toss. We ended up just throwing it out. I am still wearing my garters though for my "something blue" and for FH later on that night!

I have come across the same issue. My FH and I are both the youngest in our family therefore everyone else is already married. So we made the decision not to do bouquet or garter toss since there's no single people to catch them. I feel like its not worth it if there's not enough people to participate.