Non-traditional

-Not walking down an aisle at all.
-only parents will be in attendance.
-not wearing makeup-not wearing a wedding gown

I am also mixing traditional and non-traditional aspects. Our non-traditional aspects: my fiance and I are walking down the aisle together, we're doing a first look, we're skipping the bouquet/garter tosses, I'm skipping the father-daughter dance, and we're serving tiramisu to our guests for dessert instead of traditional wedding cake (though we have a small cake picked out for cake cutting).

View Quoted Comment Interesting on not walking down an aisle! I like that idea. What are you doing instead?

We're mixing it up. We will be doing a first look. We won't be doing parent dances, no bouquet/garter toss and I'm not wearing a white dress. As of right now, I don't think I'll be doing the whole "something borrowed..." thing. I can't think of anything else off the top of head. Either way, I'm super excited and can't wait to see our wedding come to life.

No flower girl or ring bearer, no bouquet or garter toss, and we didn't have any big group dancing or parent dances, we only did our first dance.

I walked down the aisle by myself

I’m doing a twist on the bouquet & garter toss. So that all single & attached people can participate, I’m going to attach some scratch tickets to them.

I want to say we are mostly traditional with the exception of our wedding being on a Thursday night & no garter/bouquet toss. Oh and whatever curve balls COVID-19 throws at us along the way to 10/7/2021. It already postponed our wedding once. Good luck!

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I'm doing the exact same thing! My mom keeps trying to get me to make my 5-year-old nephew a ring bearer. Nope. I told her he can be her escort into the ceremony and then sit down. LOL!

All of our photos (couple, bridal party, and family) will be done before the ceremony. I’m walking down the aisle alone. We aren’t having a cake, parent dances, a special entrance or exit, garter/bouquet tosses, flower girl, ring bearer, corsages, or boutonnières. We will likely skip the traditional vows, and I’m trying to convince my fiancé to skip the first dance. lol

We did a Handfasting ceremony, along with a few viking wedding traditions. Our reception was a costume party, complete with a contest, and a murder mystery. Very very little was traditional.

We won't be doing a garter toss and my husband won't be doing a mother/son dance for our big wedding

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Nice! We're doing all of our photos beforehand too! And no garter/bouquet tosses, corsages or boutonnieres, or special exit either. I am doing all the other stuff tho lol I tried to get out of the parent dances but FH wants to dance with his mom so I'm like fine

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We're not doing the garter toss or bouquet toss. Hmm, are you doing a father-daughter dance? I don't want to but hubby wants to dance with his mom so I felt I had to do the father daughter if he's doing mother/son

View Quoted Comment Yes I plan on doing the father/daughter dance still!

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Oh wow sounds like it was an awesome event! I'm sure one of the most fun weddings your guests have attended! Damn, now I'm rethinking things. I need to add some more razzle dazzle! haha we were trying to do a complete surprise under the guise of a proposal. When we told our moms they completely shut that down! :/

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Hmm, so then it's okay for one to do the parent dance and the other not to! I'm going to think about this some more, thanks for sharing.

View Quoted Comment You have to do what makes you happy. My dad didn't come to the wedding, because it was against his religion. I can respect it would make him uncomfortable, and he could accept that I was happy with our decisions. He still came to our reception, and that worked out perfectly for us all. Everyone has their own opinion on how you should do things, but its not their wedding. Its yours.

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Hopefully no new COVID curveballs!!! *fingers crossed* we're not doing the garter/bouquet toss either. I'm happy to see so many people say this. Our parents acted like we were complete lunatics when we told them we're not doing this LOL

I am considering doing an anniversary dance and giving my bouquet to who should be his grandma. (all married couples are summoned to the floor to dance, MC gives instructions to keep dancing if you've been married x number of years, so couples eventually start sitting down, last standing couple gets the bouquet. His grandparents have been married 62 years)

View Quoted Comment Love this!!