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I am trying to be creative in what people throw at us as we leave the church.
Flower petals? Rice? Bird seed? Bubble?
Any fun suggestions that make for good pictures? I am leaning towards flower petals. I hear bird seed just sticks to you. I feel like bubbles are overdone now.
I'm having this same problem! Bubbles make me nervous, because they can stain fabric. Rice can choke and kill birds. Flower petals also can stain, but that's less likely than with bubbles. I think that birdseed is the best option. Delicious for birdies, and nobody has to pick stuff up afterwards.
Edit: I didn't think about birdseed sticking. I hadn't heard that, but I'd hate to have a collection of birdseed between my boobs.
From what I'm heard petals seem like the best idea. Although they can stain ... I wonder if you use white ones ... will they stain? I haven't conquered this question yet! I see you are married the weekend before me! Congrats. It's coming so fast.
I know that I don't want bubbles... or bird seed =)
I do want those great tossing shots though
P.S. and birdseed is hard ... ouch
Lol is it bad that when I read your question, the first thing I thought was "I wish money..." and then my brain went to questions, insults, and rotten tomatoes. Nothing at ALL wedding related.
I saw those little fuzzy pom-poms in a few weddings, but God bless the person who had to pick those off the street.
We used birdseed. It got all in my dress, had birdseed impressions on my skin when I took the dress off. But it didn't bother me too much and made for some fun pictures!
what about lavender? its supposed to smell great after people step on it and i havent heard anything about it staining or sticking 
and i would think its ok for the environment.
Oooh! That's a really cool option. I've never heard of using lavender before.
@kmsull... my first thought too was along the lines of rotten tomatoes. Must readjust mind to wedding type thoughts. haha.
I like the great photos you get with your guests tossing things your way as you pass through! what about those little confetti popper firecracker things. There you pull the string and a few streamer-like things shoot out? Probably wouldn't be any fun for someone to have to clean up though. I've seen dailsy petals too, small, white, I don't think they'd stain.
I have never been to a wedding where the couple has been showered by things as they left the church. The throwing has always happened when they left the reception. Not sure why that is...
Anywho, we are going to be handing out rally towels before the grand march, and they will be used for our send-off. I wasn't crazy about being pelted with things by people who had been drinking.
I second the lavender! I can just imagine how wonderful it would smell :)
We are having sparklers so nothing thrown :( Easy clean up though!
I have this weird fear that lavender will be soo messy. I don't know why? I'd love to hear from someone that has actually seen this ... was it messy? What it dried or fresh?
Rocks? Gumballs? Misc fruit? Hot dogs? It's halloween, people could throw candy corn at us, that would be sweet
Looking at those eco-fetti pictures with the brides having crap in their hair... I don't think I want stuff of any kind in my hair. I guess that rules out, uh, everything I thought of before? lol.
Maybe I'll just give everybody megaphones and tell 'em to yell REALLY loud. lol
my fiance would love it if someone threw food at us!
I think I like the idea of the pictures from the church steps of people throwing stuff at us.
Plus we are staying at the hotel were the reception is (because its free!) and I don't know if we will get away.
Oh I guess it could be snowing when we are getting away, I mean it is Colorado. I still have to wait another week for the 10 day forecast.
we had these party popper things that people shot streamers at us. We had two kinds... multi-colored ones that shot out of the tube (found at Pier 1 for a dollar, of all places) and some silver ones that had the streamers stay attached to the tube (easy clean up!), that I think my mom got at a PartyPlace kind of store.
Here's a pic
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i know i'm kind of late, but we threw dried lavendar at my FSIL's wedding, her pics were amazing and it smelled heavenly!! didn't stick or anything. no clean up, the wind carried it away. also she got a huge bag fairly cheap from a whole foods market and we put a few teaspoons in tiny drawstring bags.
I'd stay away from balloons if possible (esp. metallic ones..) they can get caught on powerlines and cause outages.
We were going to do bubbles since I don't want anything getting caught down my dress or in my hair..hadn't heard about the staining thing though, that could be bad.
They aren't being thrown.. but Sparklers! They look great in photos =)
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We are using bells, there will be a bell on each persons seat. So instead of throwing something, our guests will ring something. I don't want any thing ending up in my cleavage so I think thats perfect.
I also have heard of giving each guest live butterflies to release.. but thats pricey. I looked into it, and found they were about $80 for a dozen. But I didn't look that hard.
Dehydrated flower petals from Flyboy naturals. Loved them!
this is only photo I have of our exit! (so far)
Lavender and ecofetti seem to be the toss item du jour! They both sound like awesome options to me! I love the idea of throwing little pom poms too but they sound like a big pain to clean up!
I definitely want to go the sparkler route! My wedding will be at night so sparklers should look awesome in the photos!
Sparklers are gorgeous...my only concern is, would they be a lot more expensive than other options? I've never been one to buy firecrackers and whatnot for the 4th, so I'm pretty clueless as to how much they would cost.
It looks like we'll be doing...nothing :/
Our church doesn't let us throw rice, birdseed, flower petals, etc...any of the toss items I've heard of. We can't even do bubbles :(
I'd really like sparklers but you can't have sparklers in NJ(at least, not without a permit) so that's out too :(
@50 the rice-bird thing is actually a myth! It's even on snoops: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp
I was thinking of doing sparklers or something but then I thought that the church may not allow it and also the fire hazard! I don't want someone touching someone else with a sparkler on accident. So I think there will be nothing thrown. The only thing I am contemplating is releasing butterflies when we walk out. It is just a thought now so if there is room in the budget maybe we will :)
We're getting married at a rose garden, so rose petals for us! They sell a huge bag for cheap!
We're doing bubbles after the ceremony and then the fiance wants to do sparklers after the reception since it will be dark and our wedding falls on July-4th weekend.
@ 50/snips/scissors -- I dunno what to call you anymore. LOL
Just an FYI - a friend from college was married in Oct & did birdseed. A little tip - WASH IT FIRST! Her mother was in charge of making the little baggies with the birdseed and when it flew there was birdseed dust EVERYWHERE! It took a while to get it off his tux too.
We're not allowed to throw anything outside of our church - unless we have someone come back & clean it up.
I love the idea of the streamer popper things where the streamers stay attached...but I'm also loving the lavendar now too!
A co-worker brought me a bunch of wedding bubble from her second job as an engagement gift. I have probably 40 or 50 baby bottles? I was going to use those...but I didn't know they stain?!?!?!
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