2026 bride here! Hoping someone has some ideas to brainstorm!
We are having our wedding ceremony in a church with the reception at a seperate venue. I am slightly confused on how the timeline/procedures work with exit tosses and ceremonies. Most exit tosses I see have the newlyweds going to a getaway car directly after the exit toss. We want to have photos at the church so doing an exit toss directly after the ceremony and leaving doesn't quite make sense. I don't want to do the whole 'fake photo op' just to get the photo and then turn around and head right back in. But it also doesn't make any sense to have guests wait for our families to take photos and then leave.
My thought, which I don't particularly love, is after my groom and myself leave the altar we would either head to the foyer to greet guests and then take photos after we say hello or head to the bridal room to have a private moment to ourselves and then take photos when guests have dispersed. Then we could either negate the whole exit toss tradition or do the exit toss solely with any family/bridal party that had to stay for photos.
If anyone has any other ideas on how to get the exit toss without the awkward turn around and head back in, I'm all ears! Our ceremony is at 3:30 with cocktail hour at 6.
