what do i do??? i will have approx. 30-40 guests and i can only think of 2 women who are single and then there will be one 11 year old girl! how should i handle this? thanks for the help!
2007-08-15 02:56:58 · 22 answers · asked by nytengayle13 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
KEEP IT! Have it preserved
2007-08-15 14:35:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've heard of people doing a marriage dance instead. All the married couples get on the dance floor and the dj or band calls out a number of years. They go in order like 1, 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, and so on all the way up to 50 years or more. As he calls out each anniversary, couples who haven't been married that long leave the dance floor. You present the bouquet to the couple left dancing at the end. That way it isn't just a presentation of the bouquet to someone, you get a lot of the guests involved.
2007-08-15 11:20:48 · answer #2 · answered by tehuskey513 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't like the bouquet toss, but my fiance likes the tradition, so we compromised. I am going to toss the bouquet to all the women at the reception who want to get up there and he's going to toss the garter to all the men who want to get up there (single or not) and it will mean good luck to whoever catches them. Thus, we still have the tradition of throwing the darn things, but we won't have the old fashioned annoyance of the "who's single...stand front and center to catch something for luck on that because single equals bad" nonsense.
2007-08-15 10:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by Natty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you or groom have an unmarried sister, present the bouquet to her as an expression of your love.
Or . . .
Find out which couple in attendance has been married the longest. Give bouquet to that lady, and give the garter to her hubby.
Or . . .
Keep the bouquet for yourself. I was a bridesmaid for a friend who did this. To tell the truth, I don't think many people noticed that there was not a bouquet toss.
2007-08-15 10:46:38 · answer #4 · answered by Suz123 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't do a bouquet toss. Instead, do the anniversary dance. For this dance, all married couples get on the dance floor. The DJ will start off with saying "Anyone married less than a day, please leave the dance floor." Then, you and your hubby depart and everyone laughs. Then the DJ says "Anyone married less than 1 year, get off the dance floor." The DJ will increase the time until there is only one couple left dancing--the one that has been married the longest. Give this couple your bouquet in honor of their long commitment to each other.
2007-08-15 11:57:53 · answer #5 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can forgo the toss all together. You can make small bouquets for each of the single ladies and give them each one.
But are you sure there will only be 2 single women? Are there any guys bringing dates? They will be able to participate in the bouquet toss too.
2007-08-15 10:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by LSU_Tiger23 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I went to a wedding where this was the situation and instead of the bouquet toss they called all of the married women to the dance floor and then they shared a toast (although at this wedding the toast was a shot ;)
2007-08-15 10:10:47 · answer #7 · answered by Orchid0307 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You could just skip it all together.
I'm going to do a recognition to my "sisters" (my real sister, my long-time sister-in-law and my four new sisters-in-law). The florist is going to make my mostly-lilies bouquet with six yellow roses in it (my favorite flower), and wrap the bouquet so that I can remove the roses. I intend to present one rose to each sister instead of a bouquet toss.
I've also heard of people doing an anniversary dance where all the married couples are asked to come out to the dance floor. Then the MC asks the couple married less than six hours to sit down, couples married less than five years to sit down, less than ten years, etc. until you have the longest-married couple left on the floor. The bride gives her bouquet to that woman.
2007-08-15 10:13:34 · answer #8 · answered by Trivial One 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Then give your spair bouquet to the woman there that has been married the longest! I would so SOMETHING with it though... it just is a tradition... If that is what you are into.. I have 2 bouquets. One is real flowers.. and the other is just a spair I made from walmart flowers.! VERY cute! But I wont mind giving it away or getting it shredded to pieces by crazy single women!! hehehe!
2007-08-15 10:14:41 · answer #9 · answered by *Saved by God's grace* 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not doing one. I am going to have my bouquet preserved and save it with my wedding stuff. I have just never been a fan on the bouget or garter toss, so we are not doing it.
2007-08-15 10:05:00 · answer #10 · answered by Crystal 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If there are young single women, then it's fun, but older than maybe 25, they hate it. Forgo the toss. The same goes for guys.
2007-08-15 15:09:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋