What wedding cliches are you using/avoiding and why?

LoveInDc, I love that!! I might run that by our officiant

Nooooo mason jars, no burlap, no garter toss or bouquet toss, no seating rhymes, no funny/silly/once clever programs, invites, or save the dates, noooo unity candle/sand/tree/lock, no old new borrowed blue, cake smash (hell, I'm not even having cake!)

Yes dad walking me down the aisle (with mom), big white dress, IG hashtag sign, I'm sure there are many many more

Oh yeah, no head or sweetheart table. We are sitting with all seven of our parents (sometimes parents don't stay married, and then they remarry, and you end up with seven parents for one wedding...)

We're skipping bouquet/garter toss because awkward.

We also decided to just skip anything designed to be a unity symbol during the ceremony. I like seeing them at weddings, I'm just at the point where I don't care to do it anymore and people get the point that we're married without it. I'm also skipping getting ready outfits. Mainly because of time/money and it's not worth it to me to stress out about it to get 5 uniform photos of getting ready.

But we are doing a ton of the cliche dances like the hustle, cha cha slide, etc. Because it gets people on the dance floor.

I love the alcohol sign that you are using! I have seen it done before, but it is still relatively new. I am avoiding the 'Pick a seat and not a side" and I am also avoiding not having a seating chart for dinner. One of my good friends did not have a seating chart for her reception, and she must have not calculated all her guests correctly, because there were more people than tables. And without an assigned seat, people were sitting everywhere, and leaving like 1 random empty chair open at the table. So, people were splitting up trying to find a seat anywhere they could.

We did:

Old/new, etc.

Garter and bouquet

Had a ceremony, guests, a meal and dancing

Skipped:

signs, runners, STDs, welcome bags, matching *anything*, chair covers and alcohol. And, since we skipped alcohol, we also skipped the drunken brawl, inappropriate GM/BM or parents-who-still-can't-be-civil-30-years-after-the-divorce.

Avoiding: "choose a seat not a side", if anyone clinks glasses we will ignore them, no RB or FG so no signs they carry, no cake so no cake smash or feeding, burlap/mason jars, i didnt "propose" to my bridesmaids, nothing suggesting the groom is there against his will or my dad loved me first or loves me more, anything labeled "bride", etc

doing: Mr. & Mrs signs on sweetheart table, bouquet/garter toss, silly BP entrance with sunglasses and props, first dance, parent dances, speeches, certain line dances, "old new borrowed blue", hashtag

Rustic wedding with mason jars. Skipping the burlap though. Signs telling guests were to sit, where the bathrooms are etc. I'm all over it but for good reason. Our venue's bathroom is outside the venue in another building and there are way more people on my side than his, so everyone basically has to sit together.

Skipping rehearsal dinner, garter toss, unity candles/sand etc., no "getting ready" outfits, no first look.

No photo booth, no signs, no hash-tags. No unity ceremony. No favors.

Yes garter and bouquet toss, yes guestbook, yes escort cards, yes big fancy white cake.

@Chrises, can you list your 7 parents and the connections? More curious than anything!

Using: I'm walking down the aisle to Here Comes the Bride. My groom won't see me before the wedding (due to time, not tradition), and I'm doing something old, new, borrowed, and blue.

Skipping: bouquet and garter toss, head table, bride's side/groom's side.

We are doing burlap, mason jars, lace, BM shirts, bouquet toss, garter toss, father daughter dance, mother son dance, photobooth, alcohol signs by the bar, IG hashtag, unity candle.

We are not having a flower girl or ring bearer, we are doing a first look, no monograms, and we are having a sweetheart table.

No bouquet or garter toss but I am so using all the annoying "mr and Mrs.", bride/groom, obnoxious rhyming "Pinterest-y" things, I love them lol and I will be loving all my mason jars lol. My step sons name is mason and loves that here will be jars with his name everywhere! Which is one of the reasons we decided to go with them.

Everyone I know around here is doing a burlap/ country/ rustic wedding theme, YUCK! Can't stand it!

Things I had:

-STDS, but they were super informal

-sign for the flower girl "Hey V, here comes your girl!"

-bar sign that said "the hangover only lasts a day, the memories last a lifetime"

-we had a hashtag

-I wore a trucker hat that said bride and my wife had a button down shirt that said bride and the wedding date that we wore while getting ready that day

-signature drinks

-Mrs and Mrs signs on the table

-message in a bottle instead of a guest book

-"Hands" reading during ceremony

-LINE DANCES! Give me all of the cupid shuffles and even the Whip/Nae Nae

-there was actually some burlap, but you would never have noticed it

-favors were koozies, but did not say anything about having and holding

Things we avoided:

-things labeled bridesmaids/men for our attendants

-bouquet tosses/garter

-parent dances

-no ring bearer (we have no little guys in our family)

-cake smashing, but we did use our hands to feed each other

-no one walked us down the aisle

-no sweetheart table, we sat at a regular 8ft dinner table with our bridal party and their SO’s

-no unity thing like sand, candles, hand fasting etc during ceremony

-no seating chart for dinner

-instrumental or any traditional songs during ceremony

We are not doing a huge bridal party (MoH and BM only), no bouquet/garter toss, no burlap anything, no dollar dance (eewww), no cheesy dances (chicken dance, hokey pokey...ect). Will be doing old, blue, borrowed, blue, Dad walking me down the aisle and no cheesy bar signs.

I have said even since before getting engaged that there will not be a stitch of burlap or a single mason jar at my wedding. I live in a small rural town and EVERYONE has burlap/lace/mason jars. It is SO overdone here! Also, no cake smashing!

Besides the rhyming stuff I'm actually not doing much of anything "traditional." We are not having bridesmaids or groomsmen (just our 2 kids), no readings, no speeches, no introduction as husband and wife to the reception - if you are at my wedding you know who I am, we don't need to be introduced - no cake cutting, bouquet/garter toss, I dare someone to clink a glass to make us kiss/ I'm shy and don't like attention, I just want a party with my friends and family. Walking down the isle and everyone looking at me is enough attention for me for a lifetime.

We are doing a bunch of weird stuff (well I don't think it's weird, but my traditional mom does) - like cornhole, can jam and flip cup. No cake just lots of different desserts (pies, peach and strawberry shortcake), playing instrumental versions of 90's rap songs during our ceremony, lots of signs that will say random funny things (not sure what yet but my FH is hysterical so we will have fun making them).

I'm doing a bouquet toss (but I made the bouquet so it's not completely cliche), garter toss, silly sign that you're using, cake feeding.

Not doing bride/bridesmaid, groom groomsman stuff. Not doing a professional shoot for getting ready. The only "bride" thing I got was a robe to get ready in but I got it for $5 at goodwill lol. But I didn't have anything that I could slip off that doesn't go over the head for after my hair's ready.

Avoiding "Choose a seat not a side". So overdone! No unity candles, sand, braid, etc.