Re: Garter Toss/Bouquet Toss Poll

We're doing both, but we're not have the guy put the garter on the girl who catches the bouquet. I just keep seeing my FH's sketchy friend touching my 13 year old cousins leg.

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Posted by ik1

Both, its tradition.

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Same here.

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Hmm... I like the idea of having ALL the women out to catch the bouquet and then giving a gift basket to the woman who catches it.

That's a cute idea!

ETA - the only way we'd do a garter toss is without FH having to take it off my leg (that's NOT happening in front of all of our guests - period) and without the guy who catches it putting it on the leg of the lady who catches the bouquet. I doubt we'll have a garter toss, though.

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We did both. DH was concerned about doing the garter toss and we told the MC to keep it 'PG-13' bc we had kids present. If one of the kids caught the BoK we weren't going to do the garter toss. But then my cousin's girlfriend caught it so we told the other guys to back off and DH threw the garter straight to my cousin. It was cute and we didn't let it get raunchy, so everyone had fun with it!!

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we did the anniversary dance.

it was great!!!

i loved watching all the married people who were there celebrating our marriage.

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we're doing them both---but instead of making an uncomfortable moment where the garter is put on the bo-k catcher.....we're gonna give out gift cards to the ppl who catch them!

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I did both...it was so much fun!

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i have been wanting to throw my bo-k since i was like 2 - i dont care if there is only one person waiting to catch it - im throwing it
and FH wants to do the garter toss - i like having the traditional stuff

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We're doing both. My family is fun and light hearted, I don't see it getting out of control.
I might have to do all the women though because I'm not sure I have enough unmarried people coming! lol

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Hahaha I don't know how to answer the poll! We're only doing garter removal and bouquet toss. No garter toss- I'm not fond of the awkward moment of the poor garter guy putting the garter on the poor bo-k girl haha.

I have to do the garter removal because I have the perfect song- Lay Your Hands on me!! teehee! And I'm gonna wear..count 'em...three garters!! one for each sports team FH loves...just as a surprise!

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We have to do both!!! I think they're fun, even though FH wants to take the garter off with his teeth

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I am not a fan of the garter toss, so we skipped it. Only a few people asked about it.

At my cousins wedding earlier this month, they played the Mission Impossible song when he went to retrieve the garter. LOL

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I am NOT a fan of either one but everyone in my family was horrified that we weren't going to have it so I asked my DJ about alternatives...We came up with instead of putting the garter back on the two will have a funny dance to Strangers in the Night....kind of for shits and giggles. I'm ok with it now...

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I'm not doing either - we will be doing to anniversary dance

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I had a 'fortune bouquet'...I'm Chinese and I thought it's be a cute spin on 'Lucky Chinese Fortunes' as well as taking some of the tension off the unlucky gal who gets stuck getting embarrassed.

My fortune bo-k was 6 smaller bo-k's (each only had 2 roses w/ some baby's breath). I was supposed to tie a ribbon to each one with a fortune written on it, but I never got the chance to do it (running around, ran out of time!). I ended up grabbing some extra orange ribbon I had in a bag from my unity candle, then tying it around one of the bo-k handles.

I grabbed it from Martha Stewart. To get a better idea, check this link out:
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel1640&catid=cat311

The DJ made an announcement that this bo-k toss was different, and that there were 6 bo-k's. No one was realyl listening, b/c everyone just kept talking amongst themselves . when the bo-k's were caught, the DJ announced that the one holding the 'red ribbon' (oh well, it was dark) was 'going on to the next round'. I knew that if it was someone who was single and really young (say, 10 yrs old), we'd forgoe the garter toss. Fortunately, it was my best friend from HS, who's been on and off with the same guy for 8 yrs. (another HS friend of mine).

For the garter toss, I specifically asked the DJ (while I was in the spotlight chair!) 'NO TEETH!!'. He was a really cool DJ and wasn't into that anyway. The garter was tossed and landed on the florr, where my cousin threw it to my little brother (ewwwww), but fortunately I yelled out my other friend's name to the DJ. The other friend was a good sport about it, even joked with the DJ ('Wow, 8 yrs huh?'). Fortunately, both HS friends were good sports about it, and the bo-k and garter toss went very well.

sry for the long post!