Have you ever seen this at a wedding?

[Daxx]

Stupid double post!

 

[aprilgail2]

Sounds like the bride is very immature! I personally HATE the tradition of throwing the bouquet. I am single nad have no desire to get married..I can't stand goign to weddings where they announce for al lthe single people to get up and try to catch it and people try to get me to go do it..to me it is just plain stupid and I want nothing to do with it.
Weddings here run 30,000+ and when its over if you ask the bride nad groom if they liked the food they will tell you they never got to eat any. They are taken away for pictures, videos etc and you don't see much of them! Right after my friends wedding they left and went through the drive through of Mcdonalds they were so hungry!

 

[MorganLeFey]

my florist made a separate bouquet for the toss. my ex husband's sister caught the bouquet. pracically pushed everyone else out of the way to do it. in hindisght I guess I should have just given the bouquet to someone.

 

[DISUNC]

It is pretty obvious that the bride wants a specific girl (a bridesmaid) to catch the bouquet. So, she throws the flowers. They bounce off the "chosen" girl, and another bridesmaid (the youngest bridesmaid, maybe a younger sister?) catches the bouquet.

Sounds to me like the next wedding Bridezilla will be going to is the youngest bridesmaids!!!!!!!

 

[Shugardrawers]

Aside from my MIL who was definitely not interested in catching anyone's bouquet the only single ladies were all middle schoolers. I bought a handful of silk flowers and fixed them all up seperately with a ribbon and some lace on each. Then I tied them all together with a ribbon. The girls lined up, I turned around, pulled the ribbon off and the flowers flew everywhere. Each girl got her own bouquet. They loved it.

 

[princess pooh]

I feel bad to the young bridesmaid who had the bouquet taken from her. Who in their right mind does that to someone

There was no way I was having a bouquet toss at our wedding. I knew my friends wouldn't be into it and I didn't want to waste money on a special tossing bouquet. By ditching that and speeches we had a lot more time to party

 

[bekkiz]

That is why we chose not to do the bouquet throw (or the garter toss). Both are routed in some pretty icky traditions and they cause such trouble at the wedding.

Instead, we had a married dance (I don't know what else to call it) where all of the married couples came out to dance, and the DJ asked couples to sit down based on how long they had been married. I hate dancing so we got to sit down first (less then a day ) followed by less than a year, less than 5 years etc. Both sets of my grandparents met the over 50 years mark, and so I gave each grandmother a small "tossing" bouquet! It was really cute

 

[Stacerita]

I hate the whole tossing of the bouquet. I go to about 6-8 weddings a year. And I always dread that part of the reception. Im single and it bothers me that I am called up there to "beg" for the chance to be next. UGH! I can't stand the whole thing. Usually I opt out and dont participate. One wedding I went to, there were only a small handful of single women there. And none of us wanted to get up.

Next month I will be in a wedding and the bride has choosen not to toss her flowers. She will be asking all the married couples to stand, then go for how long they been married......1 year, 5 years, and so forth till the couple standing the longest gets the flowers.

It was totally rude for that bride to snatch the flowers from that bridesmaid. I think the tradition is dumb (IMO) and can't stand it. But for her to do it like that is uncalled for.

 

[arminnie]

My DN didn't want to throw her bouquet. She gave a very short speech about role models and gave it to the couple that had been married the longest.

We have a WINNER - classiest bride.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

We had a name for girls like that when I used to work in a job that dealt with Brides: DBFH - Demon Bride From Hell.

LOL! Sounds exactly like what we say (I'm still in the bride biz). But didn't you know? She's the only one who got married this year in the entire city, and none of us could possibly know what she is going through!

 

[maxiesmom]

My mom did a small buffet of finger foods and we had 'party punch' (sherbet mixed with ginger ale/sprite).


I am so cheap.

TOV

I love me some party punch!

 

[crazy4disney01]

That sounds crazy and rude. I feel sorry for her new hubby!

 

[tigercat]

When my dn got married they called all the single girls up. My dgrdd went up as well as a few other kids. After all as they said they were girls and they weren't married. My dgrdd caught the bouquet and was really happy. The photographer told her she had to give it to another lady. She was really upset but did as she was told. He was doing a thing with the garder man and the bouquet lady. After that was done my dn went over to the lady and took the flowers and gave it back to my dgrdd. Funny thing was most of the rest of my family were really upset that my dgrdd had been in the group in the first place and then were mad she caught it but were even more upset when the other lady had the flowers taken away and dgrdd was given it.
tigercat

 

[froglady]

When my dn got married they called all the single girls up. My dgrdd went up as well as a few other kids. After all as they said they were girls and they weren't married. My dgrdd caught the bouquet and was really happy. The photographer told her she had to give it to another lady. She was really upset but did as she was told. He was doing a thing with the garder man and the bouquet lady. After that was done my dn went over to the lady and took the flowers and gave it back to my dgrdd. Funny thing was most of the rest of my family were really upset that my dgrdd had been in the group in the first place and then were mad she caught it but were even more upset when the other lady had the flowers taken away and dgrdd was given it.
tigercat

The tradition was that the young woman who caught the bouquet was to be the next bride, so it was understood that only the women of marriageable age who wished to be brides would come forward (and only unmarried men of marrigeable age who desired the same would attempt to catch to garter)

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Oh sheesh!

If you want a specific person to receive the bouquet, then privately give the bouquet to the person.
If you really want a picture of someone catching the bouquet, then get a fake one to throw.

Sounds like a very immature girl who shouldn't be getting married in the first place. Who wants to bet she'll be divorced in less than 5 years?

 

[Feralpeg]

I was the only bridesmaid when my best friend got married. When it was time to toss the bouquet, all the single ladies got up. I really didn't want to, but I knew my friend wanted me to do it. So, I'm standing there and realize that all the other ladies have taken three large steps back leaving me standing right out front. Well, my friend tosses the bouquet directly toward me. Just as I have it in my hand, a little girl of about five comes flying through and grabs the bouquet. I'm left with a single petal in my hand. My girlfriend marched over to the little girl. She took the bouquet from her and placed it in my hands. I was really embarassed, but my friend was happy. It was her day. She deserved to be happy.

Of course, I did not get married, so it must not work when someone else intercepts the bouquet to begin with.

 

[Aimeedyan]

As a single person, I HATED that stupid bouquet toss. DH dreaded the garter toss. So we tossed them both! =)

I just presented my bouquet to my great grandmother as we were leaving that night. She was well into her 90s and it took everything in her to make it to my wedding. She passed away just 3 months after my wedding and I know that she CHERISHED those gorgeous flowers until they finally dried up.

Funny thing is, not one person asked us about the tosses - even way after the fact. Guess it wasn't missed

 

[scrump]

I've always that both the garter and bouquet tosses were tacky. We didn't do either at our post-wedding party. And btw, definitely tacky regarding that bride in the OP.

 

[lbgraves]

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks that.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I was reading through some of the posts and it made me think of my own weddng reception.

All of the single women got up to catch the bouquet, which bounced off a ceiling fan (spinning slowly on like..slow speed or whatever)and landed in the hands of a widower friend of my mother's.

The garter toss was equally as funny, because by the time they'd finished taking pictures, my feet were killing me. So in between pictures and the reception I snuck into the bridal dressing room and took off my strappy sandals. I replaced them with a pair of grungy purple socks and tennis shoes that had seen better days. DH did NOT know I'd taken off my sandals and put on my shoes. So in the picture where DH is pulling off my garter, you can see my ugly tennis shoes and grody socks.

TOV