Having a bouquet but no garter toss?

He doesn't have to take it off of you. You can just hand it to him without the show in front of everyone. Who caught the garter doesn't have to place it on the person who caught bouquet. You could always skip that part. The garter toss (as you can see my plans in the pic) we will move outside the sitting area.

I want to do a bouquet toss, even if there is no one single and I'm tossing the bouquet into the field. We'll be skipping the part of them putting it on each other.

We are doing exactly that.. bouquet toss no garter toss!

We are doing that too--bouquet toss but no garter or anything to replace it. I'm not sure how many single ladies will be at my reception...but hey you can open it up to little girls if you have any there, and engaged ladies too! I want my mom (who is widowed) to come up for the bouquet toss but I don't think she will, lol

@Tiffany--I LOVE the football garter idea

I guess we're doing the garter toss (and hopefully it will land on my single brother!) but I don't want the "winner" (especially my brother) to have to put it on anyone! There's no alcohol at our reception and it's during the day, which would make that whole situation awkward

For the bouquet, I want to do what @Rev Ann Fuller suggested to you. I love that idea.

We are doing the bouquet toss but no garter toss. The garter thing to me is weird so we'll be skipping it. But like you i've always wanted to throw my bouquet.

The bouquet toss is much more traditional and goes further back than the garter toss. It is totally acceptable to do one, and not the other. We also will be doing the bouquet toss, but not the garter toss.

We are doing an anniversary dance as well, like Rev Fuller suggested although the married couple will be getting a picture of them dancing together from us with their thank you because we are still doing a garter toss and Bouquet toss. We already know that my grandma and grandpa will be the last couple standing because they've been married for 66 years.

I love the football idea! I'll have to talk to fh about that because he feels the same as me about the garter toss. We can throw it outside depending on the weather. Thanks for all the advice ladies!

I want to do a bouquet toss, not sure about the garter, but if we do it, it will be either on my ankle, or I'm handing it to him, and then skipping the part where he puts it on her. they can dance together for one song or something instead.

We are doing the anniversary dance, where the longest married couple gets the bouquet, and no garter toss.

We're not doing either. I have one single girl and she may not even come. And there is no way I want anyone digging in my dress for the garter and it will have been on my leg all day and that's just....weird. Really, really, weird.

But, I've never been to a wedding where they danced together, or the guy put it on the girl who caught the bouquet. Do people even do that? Usually a funny picture is taken and ta-da, that's it. If that even happens.

We didn't do either. FH is from another country, and when I explained the garter tradition he was like, "absolutely not." Didn't matter to me in the least.

As far as the bouquet toss, there would have been like 2 women max participating at our wedding, and I just think at that point it's awkward and not fun for anybody. Odds are my MOH or my younger (single) cousins would not have been into it, and I didn't feel like it was necessary or fun given the dynamic.

Not so much as a replacement but as something cute and fun to do, we played the shoe game. It was a fun thing for us and the guests.

Above all, if a tradition like one of the tosses matters to you and you think (knowing your guests) that people will enjoy it, go for it. If not, you absolutely do not have to include anything just b/c you've seen it at other weddings or feel it's "expected."