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Bouquet and Garter Toss Alternatives

When it comes to the wedding bouquet and garter toss, it is considered traditional to stick to tradition. Today, a lot of traditions are altered by the bride and groom to make their wedding more original. It is the new “cool” to incorporate some innovative and creative takes on old traditions.

The traditional bouquet toss was a simple gathering of the single women onto the dance floor and having the bride toss her bouquet behind her back. Whichever woman caught the bouquet was considered lucky and the next one to marry.

The traditional garter toss consisted of the groom reaching under the brides dress and either with his hands or teeth (depending on the comfort level of the couple) take the garter off and then toss it to the single man at the wedding.

Many of us have probably been at weddings or seen funny videos of weddings at which the bride threw her bouquet and children got trampled, the women would slip and fall over each other. Some photographers and DJ’s these days have the bride sign a liability release form if the bride chooses to proceed with this tradition.

In addition, many couples today get married at a later age, therefore, most of their friends at the wedding are already married and there aren’t many single women and men for the bouquet and garter toss.

Since these days most couples veer away from traditions and try to incorporate their own original ideas, we’ve compiled a list of some ideas we’ve found that you may want to try if you don’t want to stick to the traditional garter and bouquet toss.

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