If there is one wedding tradition I would like to see die off, it would be tossing the bridal bouquet. Trust me, unless you are one of the first of your sorority girlfriends to tie the knot, tossing the bouquet simply serves to make all the single ladies at your wedding uncomfortable and heading to the bar for a refill. A fun and more discreet alternative stems from Turkish wedding culture. There it is a tradition to have all your single girlfriends sign the soles of your wedding shoes. It is said that the person whose name fades the most after the shoes have made their way down the aisle and seen their time on the dance floor will be the next to get married.
You can do this with just your bridesmaids or you can include it as an activity at your bridal showers. Either way, it is a fun, personal and affordable element to add to your big day.
What traditions are you incorporating in your wedding?
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Love the new photo Liene!
Agreed - bouquet tossing isn't my favorite. I'd like to see more traditions used where all girlfriends are included, not just single ones. When I go to friends' weddings or am involved I feel like the old married one =)
I can't stand this tradition either. All the girls (and guys for the garter toss) don't want to be up there, and no one is enthusiastic to catch the bouquet. At half the weddings we have shot this year, you have 3-10 girls who really don't care, the bride doesn't even aim the bouquet right (it usually falls short) and it is such a anticlimatic event. That and cutting the cake. We just don't need those traditions anymore!
My sister pretended that she was going to toss her bouquet. She had one best friends left who was not married so instead of throwing the bouquet I handed her a silver platter; she put the bouquet on it and handed it to her friend. Thought it was cute and her friend loved it.
That is an all around great idea! It so reminds me of those high school yearbook signings, heh, but I doubt any of my single girlfriends would have wrote "keep in touch - 989-665-9824 - Amber".
lol. Either way I love it and it's keepsake quality.
I love this idea!!
I've long disliked the tossing of the bouquet. I didn't toss mine 18 years ago. Instead I gave it to my mother to have her own preserved floral bouquet. (she eloped and didn't preserve hers)
I love the shoe idea, that is wonderful.
we skipped the bouquet toss AND the garter throw. . .i don't think anyone missed it!
Love this idea. Agreed on the bouquet toss and why does the person that doesn't deserve the bouquet grab it?
I love this idea. I was actually flipping through pictures of a recent wedding where they did this. Great post!
I am totally doing this one, with all of my BM's (married or unmarried). It is such a fun idea!
Traditions at my wedding: I wore my mothers veil at my wedding and since I married an Italian - all his aunts made cookies for our dessert table.
Laura E - I agree with you. It's strange how that usually seems to happen at weddings I've been to.