Bouquet Toss

I think your idea is great! Just tell them that it's for ALL the ladies, and it will be a sign of good luck, romance, whatever.

Thank you for raising the question. I have been thinking the same thing and I do really like your idea. So thanks for sharing...and hope you don't mind if I borrow the idea!

I love the romance idea! I'm sure if you put your head together with your DJ you can come up with something catchy to say regarding the new & improved romance bouquet toss. What a great idea especially for 2nd marriages w/ older brides like me. Man I wish you would have posted this before I got married! LOL I didn't want to do the bouquet toss either but my daughter(21) begged, I tried to aim for her but she didn't catch it.

I hadn't even thought about it until I read your message. Now that I look over my guest list, I realize that there will be very few single, adult women at my wedding too. My finance and I are both in our 40's, so most of our friends are near our age and married. My mom is divorced, and his mom is widowed, but they are both "mature" women who would probably not want to try to catch the bouquet. I have one divorced friend in her 30's and then there's my college-age niece. Other than that, all the single females are 16 or under. As cute as it might be, I'm not sure I want my 10 year old daughter catching my bouquet! And I sure don't want my 16 year old son's girlfriend catching it!!! Then again, I can't think of very many single guys that will be there either, so maybe we will skip the garter and bouquet tosses altogether!

I love the romance idea

How about having the garter and bouquet tossed at the same time, so the men and women are out there together?

I do also like the idea of having all women out to catch the bouquet, and to say it will bring them luck. I guess that is a Victorian version of the tradition (says the internet).

Many of the weddings I have coordinated have invited all of the ladies onto the floor and the bouquet toss represented good luck. I think adding the romance idea is a nice touch too. The same could be done for the male guests, it's just good luck.

I agree with the posters. I think the good luck and romance is a great idea. I'm glad you posted this discussion... this is something i didn't even think of!

There are other things you can do also. I was looking around and i found this site that said you can do a Fortune Bouquet Toss. What you do is Invite everyone onto the dance floor and have a bouquet that consists of several small bunches of flowers are simply held together in your hand. On each bunch, have a handwritten “fortune” attached to it that you made up. When you throw the flower bunches in the air, they break apart so several people will get a “fortune” bouquet. Before throwing a break apart bouquet make sure they are easily separated and not entwined together so they really do break apart in the air.

The site gave other ideas too.. check it out! some are kinda out there but there are a couple good suggestions

http://ezinearticles.com/?Six-Alternative-Bridal-Bouquet-Toss-Ideas&id=122526

Hope this helps

Changing the meaning of the bouquet toss is a great idea. I have only two single girls on our guest list and was going to nix the toss but I think I'm going to steal your idea if you don't mind. I think that's much better than having the single girls out there by themselves, I know when I went to a wedding and was single I still wouldn't go up there for the toss because I felt awkward but if all the girls were up there it would be more fun and less akward. GOOD IDEA!

Instead of tossing my bouquet, which I want to keep. I am having a "flower" toss. I will have a single flower tied with ribbon.

However a friend of mine has a dual garter toss instead - promoting love, passion, and humor. It was great. The bride and groom did the tossing at the same time. Women & Men lined up. Mixed like that, it looked like more people than "just 2 or 3" girls.

My SO and I both have bouquets. We are just going to invite all unmarried people to the floor and toss both at the same time. Whoever catches will dance together. I think this could work beautifully for a bouquet/garter toss as well.

I'm not doing a bouquet toss. In place, I am working with my DJ to come up with something where the woman who has been married the longest gets the bouquet.