Not enough single ladies, what do you think of tossing the bouquet to the little girls?

Sure, it could be cute for them...but it could also cause tears and hurt feelings. You'll know the kiddos best to know if they can handle it.

My FH's friend is the only single person in our wedding. I wasn't going to toss my bouquet but now I want to do a 50-yard throw straight at his girlfriend just to entertain myself.

Nix it.

and dang that's a lot of kids at a wedding.

I'd either nix the bouquet toss or give it to the couple who's been married the longest.

I would nix it altogether. If you wanted something in it's place you could do the longest married dance, or hand a bouquet to the couple that's been married the longest. But I don't see any reason to have anything filled in its place.

Just because of the symbolism of the bouquet toss (the whole 'you're next to get married' thing), I would maybe try to do some kind of game instead (maybe 'hot potato' with the bouquet to some Disney song?). If you can, have single flowers ready for the other girls who don't get the bouquet so they still get a flower for playing.

As a teacher, nix it!!! There will definitely be a lot of crying and hurt feelings...unless you are able to give every little girl who participated something. Kids take losing hard!

You know, AMW... I had not even thought about that. And since I'm a mom, I can't believe I didn't. Yeah, no.... NOT a good idea Poor little guys....

And FFW, it's all families, some with a lot of kids. The adults are very out-numbered... LOL

I like the idea of the couple married the longest. But how do you figure that out? Sit at a mic and ask, or have them drop their names and years on a piece of paper in a basket?

Maybe just reach out to them before the wedding, so you can have everything planned out and ready.

Any married couples that you aren't sure how long they've been married, just ask as a "just curious" type of thing.

IMO- I hate bouquet tosses...women (and children) fighting over some stupid symbol of being the next marriageable woman...ick.

Maybe have a basket of flowers and hand one to each (kid in this case), if you are hell-bent on doing something.

We skipped it, had an anniversary dance, then gave the bouquet to the couple married the longest.

I actually don't like the bouquet and garter tosses. I find them weird. But I'm surprised that so many people are saying to not do it because feelings will be hurt. I'm a big advocate for children learning how to lose gracefully. A lot of parents are sheltering their kids from losing and it causes all sorts of problems by the time they get to me and they can't handle things being a struggle or not getting their way all the time.

I think you should just ditch the bouquet toss. No one will miss it.

Majority of our friends are married so when we did the garter and bouquet tosses, we included everyone so the single people would feel weird. We gave a gift (a bottle of wine each) to whoever caught them.

I agree not to throw to the little girls as it may cause fights. I like Mrs. Pope's idea and give it to the longest married couple.

Or you could skip it and not miss it anyhow, lol.

Whatever you want... You can just call anyone up. The few adults and whichever kids want to join. Its not a big deal. A little caught my bouquet. There were grown-ups and kids trying to catch it. No one cried. I wouldn't put too much thought into this if you do it. Don't overthink everything.

I got married on Mother's Day weekend so I actually threw my bouquet to the mothers. Of course, my DJ announced it wrong initially, and I had to correct him. He said "Can I get all the single ladies to the dance floor?......(I yelled mothers at him)....Oh, can I have all the single mothers on the dance floor? I mean, the mothers?"

#headdesk

I am doing the longest married couples dance and giving it to the winner (my mom's oldest brother and his wife) along with a little note I wrote to them!

I am having the "hot potato" game for my bouquet. Most of our friends are married and very few are single. Since we are older we didn't want to single out the "old maids" and decided that this way one of the ladies still gets the bouquet without singling out if they are single or married. We are doing the same thing for the garter toss. There will be no placing the garter on the lady who gets the bouquet.

We just decided no bouquet or garter toss. No need to embarrass the very few singles.