Keep or Skip: Garter Toss?

We kept it. It was fun.

Skip for sure

If you skip the garter toss.... does that mean you should skip the bouquet toss too?? I feel weird if i skip one and do the other because don't they go hand in hand??

As a groom, we did a bouquet toss, but no garter toss. As a wedding DJ, my observation is that more and more couples are skipping the tosses altogether. Of those that keep them, it seems about 50/50 whether they do both, or just the bouquet toss only. (And you never see anyone doing just the garter toss.)

If you don't have a preference one way or the other, the timeline might make up your mind. At any reception, the cocktail hour, dinner and "usual formalities" (intros, first dance, parent dances, toasts) often total at least two hours, sometimes 2½ and pushing 3. So, if you have a 4-hour reception, that leaves less than 2 hours for "open dancing." Doing tosses not only disrupts the dance floor momentum, but it also takes about as much time as 2 or 3 songs would have taken.

Not necessarily. As a wedding DJ, many of my couples have done bouquet toss only. That's how we did it at my own wedding, too. It's perfectly acceptable.

Definitely skipping!

We are skipping the garter toss, as well as the bouquet toss.

SKIP! Do I want to do this in front of my family and my new in-laws? 100% no. terrible tradition.

Skip for sure!

Definitely skipping this.

Skip! Just doesn't sit well with me.

Fiance says skip and I do too were too private for that