Have a Wedding Bouquet Toss Without
Tossing Your Original Bouquet

Since this obviously wasn't making the bride too happy, she started tossing things to the guests instead.

Originally, she tossed her garter, but this caused yet a new problem for the bride. Men that were drunk and impatient would try to grab and take the garter from the bride before she had a chance to toss it.

To avoid his bride being assaulted on her wedding day, the tradition began that the groom would remove the garter from his bride and toss it to the men.

The bride would then toss her bouquet to the single female guests. It was said that whoever caught the bouquet would be the next to marry...and so the tradition of the wedding bouquet toss.

Tossing the Bouquet is Optional
The option of even having a wedding bouquet toss at a reception is a personal choice today and not a mandatory tradition.

But a lot of guests still expect it because it's kind of fun and gets the guests involved in the excitement.

It also gives one lucky female and one lucky male special favors to take home from the wedding reception.

Try a Variation on Tossing the Bouquet
Now if you don't want to put any of your guests on the spot but you still want to do the bouquet and garter tosses, try a variation of the wedding bouquet toss.

Instead of singling out your unwed guests, invite all of the females to try to catch the bouquet, then invite all of the males to try and catch the garter. Announce that whoever catches the bouquet and the garter will recieve an extra wish of good luck from the bride and groom.

But as with the garter toss, today's brides rarely toss the bouquet they held while walking down the aisle.

A second bouquet, called a toss bouquet, is made for this very reason, to have a bouquet to toss to the female guests while keeping the original bridal bouquet safe as a keepsake.

Toss bouquets can be made with the same flowers and similar arrangement and color as the bridal bouquet yet on a much smaller scale.

And if the bridal bouquet is done with real flowers, you may want to consider having the toss bouquet made with silk flowers.

Whoever the lucky girl is who catches the toss bouquet can take it home and have a beautiful keepsake for years to come without it withering away.

Some florists and even silk wedding flower designers will automatically add in a toss bouquet at no extra charge because of the tradition of the wedding bouquet toss.

They understand that the bride who spends the money on a gorgeous custom bridal bouquet shouldn't have to toss it away at her reception.

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