Current wedding trends you are skipping

A photo booth! I've never really gone to the mall ones and I'm not one for silly faces, so it's not something I was interested in doing.

Dollar dances, garter and bouquet tosses, any kind of group choreographed dance, matching getting ready outfits.

No photo booth for us, but that's more a budget thing than a preference thing. Also no matching getting ready outfits. My ladies are all wonderfully unique individuals, and I love that about them!

Photo booth, they take up so much needed space for tacky photos.

Photo booth, bouquet & garter tosses!

No photobooth for us. It takes people away from the dance floor and I don't think it will look very nice in our reception space. Also no garter or bouquet toss.

I skipped the bridesmaids proposal. I also won't be doing the bouquet or garter toss

Not a fan of the rustic / barn weddings, with the wooden slabs and Mason jars. Bridesmaid proposal boxes, I'd rather just spend the money on a nice gift for them! Choreographed dances. My FH was in one and it felt like more of a "we want to be on social media and get attention" rather than a gesture of love/celebration. It was kinda xringey to watch too. First look, although I appreciate the intimacy and timing, just not for me! Getting ready matching outfits / posed shots. I just want it to be comfortable and organic! Also agreed with the garter and bouquet tosses and dollar dance, cringey to me.


What about you? Any trends you're skipping out on?

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I feel the same way. I've never used them at the mall either.

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Agree on all of those

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We're not doing anything rustic/burlap/mason jars. I can't look at wooden palettes without wanting to pull out phantom splinters.

We're not doing proposal boxes. Just asking them in regular conversation over the phone. No matching robes or jewelry for props either.

No photo booth

No reception introductions with MC. We haven't seen these prior to 5 years ago and they were so cringey that we immediately said no.

Choreographed dances. Have only come across these on Youtube and not interested.

Not doing the "flowergirl/ringbearer only" with no other kids allowed. We will likely be invited all kids. Otherwise that would cut our guestlist down to a couple people to be adult only since parents would decline.

Not mentioning any dress code. It's rude to do so but has become trendy to mention/dictate it and in general treat guests like they need their hands held.

Signs. So many signs. Again, guests are intelligent and can figure out what is going on around them.

Giving every guest a role. No one wants that pressure.

The biggest wedding trend we skipped was having a rustic/barn wedding. I personally think they are completely overdone and cost way more than they should because they are so popular. We also skipped the proposal boxes. I did give my maid of honor a small gift, but otherwise neither of us wanted to do proposal gifts. Another thing we skipped were welcome bags. Our venue (a hotel) asked us about them, but we didn't want to spend the extra money especially since we weren't even sure how many of our guests were actually spending the night. Some stay other places and others drove home after the wedding since it was 1.5 hours from where most of our guests lived.

I'm not naming a maid of honor. I have three bridesmaids and I was honest that I just couldn't pick one and they actually said they thought that was really cool.

No photo booth.

No dance floor (or dancing at all).

No DJ or band (just Spotify and speakers).

No bouquet toss or garter toss.

No proposal boxes.

No alcohol (we're 20 and have very religious family members).

We skipped bouquet toss, garter toss, photo booth, and grand exit (like the kind some people do with sparklers). Our photographer left about an hour before the reception ended so doing an exit didn't make sense anyway

We're forgoing a wedding party entirely as of this moment. We'll also be skipping the photobooth.

Skipping anything that would ask our guests to open a wallet at the wedding, and hoping to avoid the whole 'entourage' thing in general when it comes to shopping/wedding fairs/etc.

We’re not doing traditional wedding cake/cake cutting!

Photo booth, signature drinks, all the signage, bridesmaid proposals, getting ready outfits, first look, big sendoffs...

I don't know, we're not "cool" people. We're giant nerds and our wedding reflected that.

DH *did* want a chocolate fountain, but we deemed it too expensive.

I feel like I’m skipping a lot of “wedding traditions”. No bridal party, no bouquet or garter toss, no alcohol, no photo booth, no wedding favors, no DJ. My fiancé and I are planning our wedding the way we like, even if they means skipping out on the “wedding traditions”.

I'm not doing a garter toss, though we will be doing a bouquet toss.

No choreographed bridesmaid dances. My bridesmaids will have enough on their plates already.

No rustic/barn weddings. Never been a fan of them.

Also kids are most certainly allowed at my wedding.

We're skipping the garter toss, and I really wanted to skip the bouquet toss but my bridesmaids would probably kill me.

Also with our destination wedding we're skipping any decorations for a "Just Married" getaway car, as well as the morning after brunch/lunch that people tend to do.

We'll probably skip photo booth as well because we won't have a setup to get those print out photo strips that guests would like.

Debating on the cake cutting as well - neither of us are big on cake.

Has anyone skipped the dances? The first dance seems really forced most of the time and my fiancee and I aren't big dancers and we've been stressing about it...