What traditional things are you not doing?

No church wedding for us! A friend is marrying us. Also no favors! They are definitely a waste of money. No father/daughter or mother/son dances either. I’d rather just get the night going.

We’re not doing a father/daughter dance or mother/son dance.

& both of my parents will walk me down the aisle rather than just my dad

We were thinking of not doing the father/daughter dance just because I technically have two dad's, bio and step, and my mom still holds a grudge for my father for their divorce, so I feel like having a dance with him, will hurt my stepfather, which will end up upsetting my mother, so not doing that. And my grandfather will be walking me down instead of either dad's because he's been more of a father figure than anyone

No bouquet toss or garter anything.
No toasts.
I'm still debating if the bridal party will have bouquets or flower rings or corsages or none of the above.
No favors (still debating on maybe little seed packets or non succulents flowers but only if they are cute enough and I can afford them)
Maybe white bridesmaids dresses, with cowboy boots. (Yes, I'm in Texas)
No coordinator or bartender.

Other than a traditional Catholic wedding ceremony, our wedding is going to very untraditional.

1. No ceremony programs.

2. No flower girl/ring bearer.

3. No cake, we are doing vegan donuts.

4. We are having a local trivia host come host trivia during the reception after dinner and before dancing.

5. No wedding favors, we are donating to the National Osteoporosis Foundation in leu of them.

6. We are not asking for gifts, instead we are asking for donations to the NOF.

7. We are having a pizza bar for our dinner.

8. Kegs of beer from a local brewery, no other alcoholic drink options.

9. No bouquet/guarder toss

10. No videographer

11. E-mailed save-the-dates and invitations.

12. No flower centerpieces.

No favors
No alcohol
No programs
Wedding is on a Friday afternoon
Gonna ask my mom and stepdad to walk me down the aisle
He asked my son (who is 12) to be his best man
There is probably a lot more, but that's a good start

We are doing almost nothing traditional!

*Both mom and dad will be walking me down the aisle since they both played a huge part in raising me.

*No dances

*No bouquet toss, garter removal (or wearing), no cake cutting

*No bridal party

*No dance floor/DJ (although we will have some other alternative activities)

*AND we're doing a destination wedding smack in the middle of our bicostal families

Ok- so our wedding is totally non-traditional.

The Ceremony:

-Rather than decorating each row in the aisle, we are having two large post flower displays that people see as they enter the ceremony area

-Our flower girl is a 37 year old big-spirited gal who will be handing out airline liquor bottles to the crowd with little flowers glued to their tops

-The officiant is my older brother who really wanted to do it

-We are not being walked down the aisle by our fathers. Instead, my partner and I are walking hand and hand down the aisle together.

-The bouquets are hand-made out of vintage enamel jewelry rather than flowers

-We are using unconventional readings

-Instead of rice, our wedding party will let off different colored smoke bomb sticks as we leave the alter

-Our wedding programs are fans with program information on one side and art work by our favorite artist on the other

The Reception:

-We are doing a video guestbook instead of a paper guestbook

-Our centerpieces are mid-century inspired mobiles

-We are having formally dressed/fashion-inspired mannequins set up around the room for decor

-We are hiring a performer to put on a show and excite people to dance

-We are doing a taco buffet for dinner

-A cheescake sundae bar for dessert

-Lots and lots and lots of drinking

-Flip flops for the dance floor

And more... It's going to be super weird and artsy...just like us

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OH MY!!! May I please, please pretty please come to your wedding? LOL That sounds phenomenal! I can't wait to see pictures!

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I like that you're doing it right in the middle!

I’m not getting married in a church, of having a pastor even though I am Christian and attend church. We are getting married and having the reception at the same venue, a cute white barn and a friend is performing the ceremony. We aren’t having a ring barrier, but will have flower girls. We probably won’t do a bouquet/garter toss. I think everything else will be very traditional. Also my FH will be walking my mom down the aisle, he doesn’t want to walk alone and his dad will be walking his mom so asked if he could escort my mom.

* I am not doing a garter or bouquet toss. Instead were having an anniversary dance.

* Our daughter will be the flower girl but she is going to carry our rings, since it's a more important job than throwing petals on the floor.

*we are not having any religion in our ceremony at all
*my mom is my flower girl
*no traditional cake cutting, bouquet/ garter toss
*we will have yard games at the reception
*people will not be seated on either side of the aisle
* an all outdoor ceremony/reception fingers crossed for good weather
* we are having a morning brunch wedding

We aren't having a ring bearer.
We are not having father/daughter dance, I do not have a father. We are not having mother/son dance. We are planning on giving a speech for our moms instead.
Since I don't have a father my mom will walk me down the aisle.
We might not have a professional videographer.
We might not do the bouquet toss.

Well, for starters we're getting married on a Monday.
Ceremony and reception are at the same venue.
No ring bearer.
Flower girl will likely not toss flowers.
We won't have the same/equal amount of bridesmaids and groomsmen.
We're using the prints from the photo booth as "favors"
Not walking down to any traditional wedding song.
My Daddy is both walking me down and officiating.
We aren't doing a bouquet toss and probably no garter toss either.

Im sure there's others but I can't think of them.

*No wedding party
*No church
*No parental dances
*No garter toss
*No bouquet toss

My 2 daughters and 1 son will be my wedding party. FH is having his 2 sons and 1 daughter in his side. All teens or adults.

Our Mothers are walking out side by side.

No Flower Girl or Ring barer.

We also don’t live together and won’t for another several years after we are legally married.

This list could go on and on...lol 🤷🏽‍♀️

My partner and I are excluding a lot of traditions. But the biggest to we are excluding would have to be having a religious officiator and having anyone for my side of the wedding. Neither of us are very religious and we come from different religions so having one of our religions portrayed that we are getting married under seemed wrong to us. So we will have someone of no religious background officiate our wedding but we will have accents of both of our religions through the wedding. She has family coming for the wedding, but I have no one from my side of the family being invited which is perfectly fine to me because I come from really terrible people who would only cause trouble and degrade the wedding afterwards. So I wouldn't want them there anyways to begin with. As for friends my partner is literally my only friend, but I don't think she counts as coming to the wedding since she's being married also. It will be a very small wedding but it will insure it to be a good day anyways and it's just up our alley!

We aren't doing the garter tradition. Instead we are going to do a bridge groom quiz. (Don't know what it's called but they hold a shoe from each person and hold up the shoe that answers the question) I'm not tossing a bouquet either but don't know what to replace it with.

Im definitely not doing bouquet or garter toss. i think some traditions are antiquated but if you like them go ahead