Wedding Things You Think Are Silly

Placecards and sit down dinners (don't really understand why things need to be that formal, but i guess it's just not my thing)

Dollar dance - mostly because I think it's not in good taste.

-Unity ceremonies. Isn't the whole wedding a unity ceremony?

-"I can't wait to marry my best friend" items. Barf.

I'm sure there are more but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

#sorrynotsorry

Songs for cutting the cake, entrance, etc.

Smashing the cake in each other's faces

when the groom tries to make taking the garter off look sexy... sooooooo awkward!!

boutonnierers

Buying fancy personal toasting flutes and a cake cutting set. It just seems like a total waste of money to me. No one is going to look at it/care.

Seating charts for the reception. I just think that is way more of a headache than its worth, and if the whole point is to make your guests comfortable why not let them choose their own seat?

@TJ, funny you mentioned dolar dance, its super tacky but my mom told me brazilian weddings (we're brazilians but I had never heard) have a tradition where the groomsmen take the groom's tie and cut off little pieces and sell it to the guests and give all the money to the bride and groom lol!

@Brianna, I agree! its obvious people who hate each other will not sit together lol

@Winnipegwriter that is the PERFECT hashtag for this thread hahah

@Emily - the flutes too! Because then they sit in a china cabinet and never get used because they were your "wedding set" WHY would I buy a special fork to eat a piece of cake?

It's good to see I'm not the only one thinking this sorta thing!

@Deborah when I think of seating charts I think of being in grade school in the classes that you hate because you couldn't sit where you wanted.

- Garters and garter tossing, I agree!

- "Best day ever." I better hope not!!!

- Chair covers

Seating charts - people ignore them nowadays and will move to sit next to who they want. So, all those hours you spent strategically sitting people together to "encourage conversation" will go out the window because no one wants to talk to strangers when other closer friends/family are near by.

Favors - unless you can eat it, it will get thrown away.

Toasting flutes, custom cake cutting stuff, unity candles/sand - no one cares/pays attention and you know this stuff will go to Goodwill within a year.

SHOE GAME - God, who thought of this? It is just as tacky as a garter toss.

I have another! vows that start with "today I marry my best friend". Geez people!! get creative!

#sorrynotsorry

Bridal Party introductions at the reception. Does anyone really care?

Chair covers. It's a chair, the satin bag over it isn't fooling anyone.

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I've got at the moment.

I like seating charts, because otherwise you have to circle the room over and over to find two seats together that aren't being saved for other people. SO AWKWARD AND UNCOMFORTABLE. Like the cafeteria on the first day of middle school. And much more awkward than not knowing/liking everyone at your table.

Stuff I can do without:

1. Slideshows. Seriously. No one cares what you looked like at age 3 and no one wants to sit through it.

2. Super long, boring speeches. A toast should be like a skirt - long enough to cover the subject, short enough to stay interesting. Two minutes or less.

3. Bouquet toss. They're so uncomfortable, and worse yet there's always some pushy auntie dragging single women out onto the floor.

4. Bridal showers. Unless you are right out of college, you already own plenty of stuff. I'd just as soon not spend my Saturday afternoon watching you unwrap more junk you don't need and barely even want.

The head table where you watch your guests eat...awkward and outdated.

The giving away of the bride

Veils

Garter/bouquet toss

Cake cutting

Honestly, I can't get behind STDs. Besides that I always think 'sexually transmitted diseases' I feel like people who really *want* to be there will know my date well in advance, and I keep seeing people have venues or budget or relationship changes where they're then stuck inviting people cause they sent a STD. I'm in total agreement about cake cutters and toasting flutes. I'd also add:

aisle runners

chair decorations

candy bar/buffet

centerpieces

I have another, too: VERY small children as ring bearers or flower girls. If they can barely walk, they are in no position to be made to walk an aisle and stay on task - let alone behave, stay in place, and not cry/cut up/act out at any point during the ceremony. I feel bad for these KIDS because they get scared then think they did something wrong when 200 people are staring at them.

I will add save-the-dates too. Unless you're having a destination wedding or have a ton of out-of-town guests, I think they're pointless. They only started popping up a few years ago so hopefully they will die out.