Have you ever seen this at a wedding?

[SandraVB79]

I am so happy we don't really do that bouquet and garter toss thing in Belgium, and no way I would want to give my bouquet away if I ever get married... I want to freeze-dry the flowers and keep the thing forever!

(or at least as long as the marriage lasts... one has to adjust oneself to the "new times")

 

[Miss Inga Depointe]

Do you think brides are getting worse? I just hear so many stories like this and I remember when my friends and I were all getting married it just wasn't so much "all about us". I don't remember hearing the expression "It's my day" until recently. In the old days, we probably had to please other people too much, but there weren't as many bridezillas.

Do you think? Or is my memory bad?

 

[slo]

Sounds like the bride is very immature and not-so-nice. Say a prayer for her new husband.

I chuckled when I read this - prayers for the new husband are on their way!!

 

[southernbella]

Thanks for all of the reponses. (Sorry it took me so long to get back. Our Niece from NJ surpirsed everyone with a visit & brought her new baby! )

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was strange. I've worked weddings for around 10 years & this was one of the strangest. You know the parents were just wasting their money on these two.

Don't feel too bad for the DH. After doing his obligitory 1st dance with the wife, he spent the rest of the reception complaining about what a b&*%$ his new wife is (to me, the bartender!), offered myself & the other female bartender an invite to the hotel they are staying in for the "after-party", and grinding on any female that came close to him on the dance floor.


After the wedding was over, the barstaff was packing up the leftover booze. The Dad told us to leave it out front of the house (they were married in an antebellum home that has been converted to accomidate weddings & events). As we were leaving, we say several of the wedding guests (not family members or members of the wedding party) loading the booze in the back of their cars.

I told the Dad & he just rolled his eyes. He went over to them & asked them what they were doing. They said they thought it was wedding favors & it was o.k. to take the leftovers . We are talking about 3 cases of wines, at least 4 cases of beer, not to mention unopened liter bottles of liquor.

I swear, I'm going to write a book on day! Sbella

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

WOWZAHS! I wonder if the bride was trying to set the bridesmaid up with a "specific guy" who caught the garter? One of those wedidng set-ups.

We fell into the whisked off category (even at Disney who does how many weddings a year?). We stayed through cutting our cake and when we returned it was time for the last dance. I never got to throw the bouquet or anything, although we did do an anniversary dance earlier in the evening and presented the longest married couple with a bottle of champagne.

Both we and our families had really mixed feelings about the garter return as it gets so raunchy so much of the time. It's fine and well, but it just didn't fit us or suit or needs/desires. We were just going to throw the two and be done with it.

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

I am so happy we don't really do that bouquet and garter toss thing in Belgium, and no way I would want to give my bouquet away if I ever get married... I want to freeze-dry the flowers and keep the thing forever!

I felt the same way! More and more, brides here have their bouquet and a throw bouquet. You keep your bouquet and the throw bouquet is the one that gets tossed for the single girls. They're usually smaller, too.

If you wanted a preservation company, there are a number in the US and they are a growing business. I would be surprised if you can't find one in Europe. I was very happy with the end result on mine (the company Disney contracted us out to), but was incredibly displeased with the poor customer service.

If you do want the preservaiton, be sure to get all the brochures and literature possible. Call and set up an appointment so that you can go over exactly what it is that you want and have it priced for you. In this country, they fetch an outrageous amount and it's an expense that comes right after the wedding.

 

[FreshTressa]

Sounds like the bride is very immature and not-so-nice. Say a prayer for her new husband.

Yes...she sounds like an absolutely lovely person, lol.

 

[phisigprincess]

Glad to hear that marriage is going to last. For goodness sakes, it's a PARTY!! That's why I get so angry when people make a huge deal out of monogrammed napkins and stirrers and things that are ridiculous like that. No one remembers the details. They remember if the couple was happy and if they had a good time. I plan on having the time of my life at my wedding on Saturday and nothing is stopping me from that!!!

Oh, and we are doing the garter and bouqet (mainly because I have a Steelers garter that I LOVE) but it doesn't matter who comes out on to the floor because instead of having the guy put the garter on the girl's leg (which creeps me out and I haaaate it), we're having the people who catch it start the beginning of the next dance together and have everyone join in.

 

[Divamomto3]

Glad to hear that marriage is going to last. For goodness sakes, it's a PARTY!! That's why I get so angry when people make a huge deal out of monogrammed napkins and stirrers and things that are ridiculous like that. No one remembers the details. They remember if the couple was happy and if they had a good time. I plan on having the time of my life at my wedding on Saturday and nothing is stopping me from that!!!

Oh, and we are doing the garter and bouqet (mainly because I have a Steelers garter that I LOVE) but it doesn't matter who comes out on to the floor because instead of having the guy put the garter on the girl's leg (which creeps me out and I haaaate it), we're having the people who catch it start the beginning of the next dance together and have everyone join in.

the garter thing totally creeps me out also!
I caught the bouquet at my uncle's wedding when I was 14. Some grown man put the damn garter on my leg. YUCK YUCK YUCK! eww...they shouldn't even have let me stand there and try to catch it. It was the first wedding I had ever been to and I thought I was going to get to keep some pretty flowers, I didn't know some half drunk usher was going to have his hand up my dress! I think he was equally as mortified and did do it tactfully (as tactfully as you can do that dreaded deed!) I caught it again in my 20's at my cousin's wedding and my DH caught the garter. I can't even remember who caught the darn bouquet at my wedding 15 years ago! I think it was my sister and now I'll have to go back and dig out the pictures. I'm sorry I did the whole thing, but I was 23 and had much less class and tact than I do now. LOL. However, I have to say we did have a nice blend of a big Country Club wedding with a good old fashioned party! We had 200 people at a beautiful sit down reception from soup to nuts, band, open bar, favors, etc and most of those 200 people were our college friends. People STILL talk about how much fun they had at our wedding. Aside from wishing I had a different dress (oh the 90's were horrid for fashion!) and not doing some of the silly wedding "traditions" like the garter thing, there's not much I'd change about it. I just wish I relaxed and had a little more fun and didn't worry about everything being "perfect." Hey, at least we didn't do the "dollar dance."