What traditional things are you not doing?

I will going down the aisle alone as my dad is passed away. I will not replace him.

We will not be doing the bouquet, or garter toss. Ive never enjoyed being dragged to the dance floor and told I'm single.

No wedding shower or bachelorette party - an engagement party only
No rehearsal dinner
Ceremony and reception in same venue
No bridesmaids or groomsmen - MOH/BM only
No flower girl/ring barer
A friend is officiating
First look
No assigned seats for reception
No MOH/BM speeches - doing a “hot mike” instead for anyone who wants to say something
No wedding cake - desert with dinner instead
No first dances - doing lip sync battles instead
No garter/bouquet toss
No favors - doing late night snacks with friends after send off instead
No honeymoon - annual travel with couple friends instead

- we are not having a flower girl or ring bearer
- we are having the reception and ceremony in the same place at a restaurant
- we are not doing favors
- we will not be having a seating chart or seating assignments. (Probably the most risky buuuuut I couldn’t care less about where people sit)

-no programs
-no favors
-no bouquet or garter toss
-no professional dj (making our own playlist)
-no formal entrance as husband and wife or with bridal party into the reception
-not having a plated meal with waitstaff

- We're not getting married in a church -- Although, we're strong believers & will have a lot of Christian aspects to our wedding.

- Our ceremony & reception will be at the same venue.

- I'm not walking down the aisle to "Here Comes the Bride" -- my mom was really upset about that at first lol.

- We have 4 ring bearers, and the youngest one will be 8 months old at the time of the wedding.

- I'm not having an all-white wedding cake. I'm probably going to do a strawberry cake, but the cake will mostly be pink with glitter and other designs. White cakes seem too plain and boring to me!

- We're doing a first look.

- We won't be having assigned seating (although, I've only been to one wedding with assigned seating so that's not out of the ordinary where I'm from).

The rest of our wedding is pretty traditional! I have a really big bridal party, we will be doing the garter/bouquet toss, we're using real flowers for the bridal party, our cake will be 4 layers high, and we'll be doing all the dances!

-Not getting married in a church
-Not wearing a veil
-No one is giving me away (this is my second marriage)
-No wedding party

We're actually handfasting in September (he is Pagan), and our big wedding (not really big) is in January 2021

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We are Pagan too.

- Not getting married in a church
- Not having a religious officiant
- Not having a garter toss
- Not getting married inside

-We are having 1 ring barer (5 year old brother) 2 ring security (8 year old brother, male dog)
-2 flower girls (renaming them as flower fairies) and 1 flower dog (female dog)
-dress is a blush, champagne, gold color
-will have 2 fathers walk me down the aisle
-ceremony/reception are in the forest (same venue)
- we will have a nerdy after party (instead of going dancing we will have a separate room where we will play board games, have snacks and beer)
-we will incorporate how we got engaged in the wedding (FH built an infinity mirror so we will rebuild it for the wedding)
-day after the wedding we will have breakfast then all go hiking in Yosemite
-FH has a groomswomen
- I will be very comfortable with my vans on my wedding day
-father daughter dance will be with my 2 fathers
I’m sure there’s more but that’s all I can think of

View Quoted Comment He's Pagan, I don't really have a religion but was raised Catholic. The handfasting is what we will.consider us bound by, anyway. So, we'll be "married" in September, but our wedding will be in 2021

* Man of Honor in my wedding party

* Friend Officiating

* No Garter Toss (thank God...we aren't a fan)

* Ceremony not in church but on same property as reception

I'm sure there are more but can't think of too many off hand, FH is pretty traditional overall. BUT we are doing something we thought was nontraditional but turns out is historically accurate. I am going to toss my bouquet as we are leaving the reception, kind of a toss and go situation. Our wedding coordinator told us that was traditionally when that occurred, so there is that.

We are being very untraditional 😂
- I changed my last name months before
- our reception is actually a "send off" because we are having it before we fly off to Hawaii where we are tying the knot (here will be a dress reveal where he is gonna hide)
-our ceremony is at an airbnb where both families will be staying, it's right on the ocean
-I am making my bouquet from florals at the street market the day before the ceremony
I'm excited to come back and not have to deal with a reception afterwards and a lengthy name change process 👌🏼🥂

* We're not having my dad walk me down the aisle. I am walking alone or by my son.

* We're not getting married in a church or separate venue from our reception. Our wedding will be on the from porch of a Bed and Breakfast. Reception will be in their reception cottage.

* We won't be having a father/daughter or mother/son dance.

* a friend is officiating.

*Our children are the only people in the wedding party.

We're fairly non-traditional...
- I'm Wiccan and he's Atheist...so our ceremony is completely different than the usual
- no bouquet toss or garter thing (garter thing weirds me out)
- no registry
- probably no dollar dance, unless I'm in the mood for it
- we're including a handfasting in our ceremony
- the person marrying us is a high priestess, but got ordained for us
- we're planning and making everything ourselves
- our bachelor/ette parties will come together at the end of the evening to play games cause why not??

Sounds a lot like us.

No bouquet toss or garter! Honestly, I’ve been to weddings without them and it really goes unnoticed since you’re up dancing and visiting with guests.

- Our ceremony & reception is at the same venue

- I’m walking down the aisle to I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz

- no ring bearer

- instead of a guest book we’re using a wood board shaped as a baseball base

- Instead of a daddy daughter dance I’m doing a grandma granddaughter dance

Outside wedding at a barn venue.
No flower girl or ring bearer.
Having BBQ food (buffet).
Doing a first look.
Serving a sheet cake.

Described our wedding to a T! My son is walking me down the isle. I will have no bridal party. No classified dances. No photographer. No church...married at the venue. No favors. And our coordinator is doubling as our officiant.