QOTD! :)

Hi Ladies! This is my first QOTD so I'm hoping it's not a repeat! I'm totally supposed to be doing work for school right now but I always get distracted and end up procrastinating with wedding planning lol Anyway I know that some of you have certain traditions you're keeping and others that you prefer not to do. Like I know some brides now choose to see the groom before the ceremony like a sort of pre-ceremony reveal. I think that could be a great idea and some great pictures/videos could come out of that. So here's my question to all of you:

For your wedding, what traditions are you keeping/breaking?

Keeping:
FH wont see me until I walk down the aisle
Wearing a garter
Dad walking me down the aisle

Breaking:
Garter/Bouquet toss

I'm sure there are others I can't think of right now lol

Keeping: My dad walking me down the aisle
Probably the father/daughter, mother/son dances

Ditching: bouquet/garter toss, the dances that people do (Electric slide, macarena, cotton eyed joe).

Keeping:
Traditional dances
Flower girl & ring bearer
Cake cutting

Breaking:
Garter/Bouquet toss
First look before the ceremony
No receiving line
Both of my parents are walking me down the aisle

Keeping:
-Parent dances
-First Dance
-Cake cutting
-MoH & Best Man speeches

Ditching:
-Garter/flower toss
-Dad walking down the aisle (I'm having both parents do it)
-Traditional bridal party (both sides are mixed)

Undecided:
-First look before ceremony?
-Trying to decide if we're doing a candle/unity ceremony at all

Keeping:
Not seeing each other until I walk down the aisle.
Father walking me down the aisle
First dance
Cake cutting
MOH and Best Man Speeches
Candle and breaking of the glass

breaking:
Garter Toss
Bouqet Toss
(Replacing this with anniversary dance)

After reading all of these it seems like I am not really keeping any traditions.
Keeping:
First dance
maid of honor & best man speeches

Breaking:
my mom is walking me down the aisle
we will see each other before to take pictures
no bouquet toss
no garter toss
no candle/unity ceremony

I think theres more I am breaking too haha

It's so interesting to see what everyone is deciding to keep/break lol. I will be
keeping:
- Father-Daughter dance (FH mom unfortunately passed away last yr - R.I.P.)
- Probably going to do the unity sand thing since I sort of have a minor phobia of fire/lit candles
- Cake cutting
- Dad walking me down the aisle
- Bouquet toss
- Bridal Party
- Writing our own vows (although this may be more of a choice than tradition)
- Not seeing each other before the ceremony

Breaking:
- 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue'. Never really understood the point of this anyway
- No garter toss. Absolutely hate this part of weddings! I've been scarred one too many times by seeing this. Seems like something that should be private (not in front of the kids x_x!) Anyway - just my take on it. No slight to any ladies who want to incorporate it in their wedding
- Mix-Match Bridesmaid gowns
- No ring bearer (didn't know they don't actually carry the rings! Ring bearer at my sister's wedding just carried an empty pillow! -__-')
And I think there may be more I'm breaking too haha

Undecided:
- May or may not have traditional 'cliche' dances - Electric slide, cotton eyed joe, cupid shuffle, etc. They seem really corny lol but they do get people up to dance for a while. Looking for an alternative though

There's so many I am not doing!!

Keeping:
First dance
cake cutting
we are doing a father/daughter sister/groom(FH mom passed) dance but only for my mom or I would not do them

Breaking:
my son is walking me down the aisle
we will see each other before to take pictures
no bouquet toss
no garter toss

We're breaking more than we're keeping.
Breaking:
we're doing a first look & ceremony is at the venue
no garter/bouquet toss
both of my parents are walking me down the aisle
no flower girl/ring bearer

Keeping:
MOH/BM speeches
father daughter /mother son dances
cutting the cake? if that even counts lol

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Posted by Nellabella

After reading all these posts...can I keep the bouqet toss and the garter toss but skip the part where the guy puts the garter on the random girl. I always find it soo awkward to watch!! Lol. Would it be weird to still do the tosses and leave out the last part???

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Absolutely! I've been to a few weddings where they did this. Much less awkward lol

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Posted by Nellabella

After reading all these posts...can I keep the bouqet toss and the garter toss but skip the part where the guy puts the garter on the random girl. I always find it soo awkward to watch!! Lol. Would it be weird to still do the tosses and leave out the last part???

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I don't see why not. This way you get to keep most of the tradition, minus the most awkward part!

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Posted by killerqueen

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Posted by Nellabella

After reading all these posts...can I keep the bouqet toss and the garter toss but skip the part where the guy puts the garter on the random girl. I always find it soo awkward to watch!! Lol. Would it be weird to still do the tosses and leave out the last part???

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I don't see why not. This way you get to keep most of the tradition, minus the most awkward part!

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Agreed! I always wondered if it would be weird to just do a bouquet toss and nothing else. But then I thought...'Hey, this is MY wedding! I do what I want!!!'