We had a destination wedding on May 9th with only immediate family. We are having our official wedding reception on August 15th, I have been tossing the idea of a bouquet and garter toss around in my head, but I don’t know if it would be appropriate so long after the actual wedding.
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no garter unless you plan to wear the entire wedding dress to the reception
bouquet could still work if you plan to have one
A garter toss is inappropriate under any circumstances. This is a holdover from the 1970s when it was considered radical for a man to be familiar with a woman’s upper thigh, and “masculine” for him to prove it in front of a group. Gross, sad.
As to the bouquet toss, if you can identify 10 women over the age of 21 who will be happy to jostle for your bouquet, do invite them and do throw it. Otherwise, be glad you got a husband and stop it with the disco cliches.
sure! what girl doesn’t want to catch the bouquet, and you know your hubby loves taking things off of you:P…
it’s the one excuse to act ridiculously sentimental in public and people will clap.
I would skip both. Just my opinion.
I would skip it since the wedding was months ago. No one will really miss it anyway.
I’ve DJ’d many “after the fact” receptions and facilitated many bouquet and garter tosses. In my humble opinion you do them if YOU want to do them. It’s YOUR wedding/was YOUR wedding. August 15th is the day you are celebrating YOUR wedding. There’s nothing wrong with that.
The only factor that I sometimes see brides decide to NOT toss bouquets is if there are only a couple/few eligible bachelorettes to toss to.
Ultimately it is YOUR decision and YOU should enjoy and relish YOUR day however you see fit. Don’t listen to naysayers that shed tainted opinions. If YOU would like to do them, I say do them.
Congratulations! And I hope your party goes off without a hitch!
No one should ever do a garter toss. Bouquet, yes.
If you want to do a garter and bouquet toss then it is appropriate to do so. However, if you don’t want to then there is no real need to do so. Also if you do a bouquet toss that means you will have to pay to have one made. This is really just up to you and your hubby and if you two want to do it or not.