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This is a fun interactive web site we made to promote wedding shows at our building. It lets you toss a virtual bouquet to your best friends and watch you tube videos of hysterical real bouquet tosses. Here is the web site: http://www.virtualbouquettoss.com/
I know I've personally caught about three bouquets at weddings. Are people still doing that tradition? Any fun alternative ideas?
I'm not tossing the bouquet at my wedding.
Here is something cute that I have seen, at the last wedding I went to they did an anniversary dance and the couple that was married the longest was presented the bouquet.
Not only did I toss my bouquet, but it was my actual bouquet - not a smaller cheaper version. What the heck was I going to do with a dried or dead bouqet of flowers? I certainly wasn't going to fly to Jamaica with them on the honeymoon, and I didn't want someone else to have to worry about preserving them while I was away just so I could have some dead flowers in my house. Dead/dried flowers do not matchmy decor and are not my style. So I tossed it! And one of my sister-in-laws caught it. Now she has dead flowers hanging in her bedroom! :-)
I decided not to do the bouquet toss (or the garter toss for that matter) at our wedding. I have always felt weird being singled out as a "single lady" in those kinds of scenarios. Also, at our wedding, we have like 4 single women at the weddding, so it would be kind of awkward with such a small group.
Oh, I like the idea of giving it to the couple that has been together the longest!
we're doing something similar to the "married the longest."
Every married lady stands on one side of the dance floor, and the DJ starts with, "Whose been married one year?" Those ladies cross to the other side. "Two years?" Again...cross to the other side. It keeps going until the longest married lady is left on one side and is presented the bouquet.
What is an anniversary dance?
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I wont toss my bouquet cause I want to preserve it and put it in my hope chest. So I'll toss one of my bridesmaids bouquets! 
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We're tossing the bouquet and a instead of a garter, a little gators football. But we're announcing ahead of time that it's NOT just for the singles out there, and whoever catches them gets a gift card. We're thinking B&BW for the ladies, and Bass Pro Shop or Dick's Sporting Goods for the men.
I never thought about just tossing my actual bouquet, like caliocteach said, that's actually really smart!
I really dont want to do the whole bouquet/garter toss thing, so I am trying to figure out another option. The anniversary dance is definately being considered, or I may attempt a (planned) impromptu throw when I leave? Still not sure on this one, but I know I don't want the "okay, all single ladies to the dance floor..." ugh.
Of course, since I wrote that, I now have Beyonce's song "All my single ladies..." in my head. :)
I've decided to forgo the bouquet toss. I wanted to avoid the akwardness for the few single friends we have remaining...I know I always hated being called out to partake in it!
We're not doing a bouquet toss, but I like the idea of an anniversary dance or something similar, we only have about 3 single women coming to the wedding and a couple lesbians so they can't legally get married in California and I'd rather not rub that fact in.
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I was originally planning to do a bouquet toss, but several of my friends received engagement rings in the last month or so - seriously decreasing the number of likely participants. I think that the plan now will be to wait until I start receiving RSVPS to decide whether or not we will actually do it.
@tennis, You don't want to throw a bridesmaid bouquet. Get a throw away bouquet from the florist. I would think it would be a bit awkward to select one of your BMs to fork over her bouquet. Unless someone has told you she doesn't care and you can have it, I think you'll want to have an extra.
I think the one I used was also used as a topper for my wedding cake.
I need to add that we didn't just do it for all the single ladies -- we did it for all the unmarried ladies, worded a little differently to include engaged girls and as to not exclude anyone in an odd situation. We did the garter toss too, but we skipped the part where the guy has put the garter on the girl that caught the boquet == instead we took pictures with them. My brother caught the garter and was so proud he wore it on his arm the rest of the night (it was a blue and gold UCLA garter) and my husbands youngest sister caught the bouquet -- she actaully DOVE for it!! It was awesome.
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"All the single ladies now put your hands up!" (Sorry I just had to.)
I'm doing a bouquet toss because I'm southern and marrying a true traditionalist. It's certainly not a dying tradition in our neck of the woods!
No tossing for us! Before getting engaged I had the fortune of catching 7 bouquets in a row...it was starting to become a bad joke. I even had one hit me in the face when I was standing in the back of a group of girls not paying any attention. It's not that I don't find it to be a fun tradition, but looking at our guest list I think there will only be a handful of single ladies...I hate to put my 5 friends on the spot.
I only have a few single friends so instead of the toss at their table will be a flower and note for them from me.
I'm tossing my bouquet, but instead of asking the 'single ladies' to come up, I think we're going to ask the 'pretty girls' or something like that to come up. I only have two single friends, and I don't want to upset them. :)
@catrelle83: There's a whole wiki on the anniversary dance here
We won't have anyone single at my wedding. That's right, I'm the last single girl. So no bouquet toss! No anniversary dance, cuz that's just not fair, my parents will win by a mile. Not sure what I'll do with my bouquet...
I didn't bother. I always hated being asked to go to the dancefloor for the bouquet toss- and also felt that it kind of interrupted the partying, so I skipped it.
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Hi Tanya123! One of my Future sister in laws used one of her BM bouquets. If I am paying for the bouquets they should have no problem handing it over for the toss seeing it is my wedding and they aren't paying for the bouquet. If I can work into my budget to get an extra I would but we are limited because we both have large families and that has already made our budget go thru the roof! Thanks for the advice!
Not for us. I hate the idea that women are not "supposed" to be thinking about getting married, we're just supposed to let it happen. But then all the sudden at a wedding they are all supposed to tend to be so desperate that they'll fight to catch a bouqet. I just don't like the idea.
There is no way I'm tossing my bouquet! I haven't talked to a florist yet but I have a vision in my head and there is no way I'm chucking it at people! Plus, there aren't many (if any) single ladies at our wedding so it would be dumb to toss it (IMO). I thought about giving it to the couple that's been married the longest but like I said, I can't part with it! :D
I wish I could have done the "who's been married the longest" but my parents are divorced and I didn't really want to draw attention to that. But if I did, I would have had a special bouquet (similar to a toss bouquet) made to hand off.... I loved my own bouquet too much to part with!
We are not tossing the bouquet (or doing a garter toss)- I am thinking of giving my bouquet to my FI's grandmother as a gift.
I sure am! I love the tradition. I might have all the women get up instead of just all the 'single ladies' (sing the song here) and toss it for luck instead of the next person to get married. :)
Okay so we WERE def. doing it. Now reading over everyone's posts I decided to look at my address list. And I can only come up with 6 'single ladies'! SOO now I am re-thinking it!!
I've only got one single lady attending...so should I just hand it to her?? ha ha ha! (nope, no toss for me!)
I didn't think I wanted to do it, but a couple of my friends really encouraged it. In the end, I'm glad I did because it was hysterical. My super competitive friend seemed to leap in the air for it. We all made fun of her, but since reviewing the footage, its was just her height that made it possible. All in all its been a fun ongoing joke. I know it isn't always that fun for everyone, though. I am literally the first of my friends to get married, so I knew I wouldn't be singleing out a small group of girls.
We've decided against the bouquet toss at our wedding. I've been to too many weddings where I just feel so awkward standing there waiting for the bouquet to be thrown! Plus, I can only think of three single girls at my wedding anyway. But, to each her own! :o)
A wedding custom in Finland is for the bride to wear a gold crown for her wedding. She gets blindfolded and all the single ladies form a circle and start spinning around her. When the spinning stops the crown is given to whomever is standing in front of the bride.
Althouh I'm Finnish I'm foregoing the crown and practicing this tradition with my bouquet instead! Much more civil than a toss, tackle, and brawl, no?
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I did, and it was awesome! I decided to use a smaller bouquet, and I ripped it apart so that when I threw it, the flowers went everywhere! They were all scrambling to get them and it was really fun. It ended up being really sweet, because then everyone got a piece to take home. 
I won't be doing the bouquet toss either. After reading all the comments on previous posts concerning the subject, it just sounds like too many things could go wrong with the toss. While I'm all for traditions, and I loved the bouquet toss as a child, I hope to think of something else to do in its place.
I never thought about counting my single lady guests! That's a good idea as there really aren't that many of them!! If I do decide to do the toss ... I'm definitely doing something a little different. I saw it at a wedding a few years ago and LOVED it ... Instead of throwing a single bouquet the bride pretended that she was throwing her bouquet but it was actually a dozen single roses -- and when she threw them they all went in different directions so about 12 (a few hit the floor :( ) girls caught roses ... it was such a surprise and everyone loved it!
@tennis: i think it's fairly common for florists to give a throw bouquet for free. that's what my florist is doing.
as for the bouquet toss, i am undecided. plenty of my single sorority sisters will be there, but i also like the anniversary dance.
I don't think I am going to do it. I always felt so awkward getting herded to the dance floor for the toss! I really like the idea of recognizing the longest married couple though! I think it is my grandparents : )
I am tossing a bout but not mine. I plan on having my real bout saved but I want to toss a fake one.
I never thought about creating a fake one to toss if my florist doesn't give us one for free. Thats a good idea dmitchell08!
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