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MOB Karen

07-02-2006, 11:28 PM

Just wanted to see how many of you are going to toss your bouquet. Many florists actually give you a toss bouquet now. Or have you chosen not to toss your bouquet at all. If you do keep your bouquet, and once it's dried, what do you plan to do with it?

Amber818

07-03-2006, 12:34 AM

Kacie_bride

07-03-2006, 01:05 AM

I am planning on throwing a bouquet. I already bought a throw bouquet. I am going to get my flowers preserved and framed. I want to have a wedding display area in my home after the wedding. I will have framed pictures, the bouquet, and some other keep sakes on a shelf or something.

darkangel090260

07-03-2006, 03:26 AM

mine will be silk so i am keeping it. We will be tossing a couple of stuffed bears for the kids but nothing ells..

Jenn060306

07-03-2006, 04:29 AM

I got a small boquet for tossing. I couldn't bear to throw mine because i knew how expensive it was and i hated to see it get torn up on the dance floor. In the end there was no frickin way i could have thrown it even if i wanted too. It was sooo big and soooo heavy. It would have hurt someone if i threw it.

You can see how big it was here. I think it weighed about 15 pounds.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/jenn060306/Wedding%20Photos/IMG_1904.jpg

This is everyone making a run for the small one i threw
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/jenn060306/Wedding%20Photos/boquettoss.jpg

The girl who did catch it just turned 18 and has 3 older brothers who started chanting 'throw it back' it was terrible. She didn't know what to do. Neither did i. They were just giving her a hard time. Poor girl.

LizabethDavis

07-03-2006, 05:24 AM

Yes, I will be doing a bouquet toss!

katieandalex

07-03-2006, 07:31 AM

We are not doing the garter & bouquet toss because we don't have enough unmarried couples that would be attending our wedding (there would be like a total of 3 guys and 3 girls that are unmarried). So we decided it would be best to do the anniversary dance and then dedicate the garter & bouquet to the couple married the longest.

brewsells

07-03-2006, 08:23 AM

We will be doing the bouquet toss. I will be purchasing a seperate one, though. I plan on drying my flowers and maybe I will frame them.

hummingbird521

07-03-2006, 08:27 AM

We didn't do the toss bouquet or the garter. We only had one girl (my sister) and one guy who were single that came. We did not want to embarass either of them by doing this. My bouquet was silk and is now packed away. If anyone has any ideas on how to display it let me know please.

MOB Karen

07-03-2006, 08:50 AM

Our florist is providing a toss bouquet so I will be doing that....in regards to perserving my bouquet I really do not think I will. It seems pointless to me...JMO :bbconfused: ! I know for a lot of people it is meaningful...I guess maybe I should perserve it since my mom spent over $1000 on our flowers.

Yeah, maybe you need to be a little more grateful, and preserve that **** thing! JMO! jk;) ......LOL! We'll see what it looks like first, in order to make a determination of whether we would be able to just toss it in the garbage.

LaceyinPgh

07-03-2006, 08:50 AM

My bouquet was the single most important thing to me on my wedding day. There was no way I was tossing it. I had it preserved. (I should be getting it back at the end of next month.) Both florist that I used offered me a tossing bouquet for free, but I declined. Sean and I decided that we would not do the bouquet/garter toss or the anniversary dance. We felt that we wanted our reception to be a very formal, elegant event. We did not want people to think of it as a traditional wedding reception.

MOB Karen

07-03-2006, 08:57 AM

LaceyinPgh

07-03-2006, 09:02 AM

And miss the stampede for the bouquet? How could you, Lacey? LOL!!
Considering there were two single women there and one of them happened to be recently widowed, I don't think there would be much of a stampede. Although I could easily see my very desperate single friend smacking Mrs. Mack with a chair across the back to get the bouquet. :chair:

MOB Karen

07-03-2006, 09:09 AM

Considering there were two single women there and one of them happened to be recently widowed, I don't think there would be much of a stampede. Although I could easily see my very desperate single friend smacking Mrs. Mack with a chair across the back to get the bouquet. :chair:

Maybe, if you liked your single friend, you could have just given her the toss bouquet. But then again, the stampede probably has something to do with the luck thing too. Oh well, good luck to your friend some other way!

StaceyMc

07-03-2006, 09:11 AM

We're not doing the garter and boquet tosses. I always thought the boquet toss was uncomfortable - I hated people trying to drag me up there and put all of the single girls on display.

I caught my sister's boquet, that was the only one I think I've ever tried to catch and that was only because the other bridesmaid and I were having a great time, otherwise, I run the other way.

Besides, there won't be a ton of single guys and gals there.

AngelinLove

07-03-2006, 09:35 AM

I will be using a toss bouquet!! I don't think that I will have mine preserved..it's just too much money!!! It would probably cost me more to preserve my bouquet than I am spending on all the flowers combined!!!

Kacie_bride

07-03-2006, 09:56 AM

racecargirl

07-03-2006, 10:18 AM

Our single friends have threatened to never speak to us again if we have the garter or bouquet toss. So not going to have them.

LaceyinPgh

07-03-2006, 10:24 AM

I have been to weddings where girls try to kill each other to get to the bouquet. One wedding I went to was funny. They had to drag single girls up there and then when the bride threw the bouquet nobody wanted it and it hit the ground and everyone just looked at it! It was so funny, to me anyway.
My best friend got married a couple weeks after we all graduated high school. So when she did the bouqet toss, all of her friends who were 17 and 18 had to go up. So when we were up there, she tossed it. It landed right in the middle of all of us and EVERYONE backed up and just stared down at it. Fianlly her 7 yearold cousin ran in and grabbed it. The same thing happened with the guys for the garter toss, no one picked it up. I was 18 and had a life in front of me, I wasn't running the risk of picking that thing up and ruining everything, just in case.

A couple years later another friend got married and kept walking around the reception saying "I'm going to make sure Lacey catches it." WEll this was the first time Sean had really met any of my friends because we had only been going out a year. So when she tossed it, it landed right at my feet. I looked down at it, turned around, and walked away. Her sisters both literally dove after and had a fist fight over it right int he middle of the reception. Regardless to say, there wasn't much left. But the important thing was, it wasn't going home with me.

MOB Karen

07-03-2006, 10:32 AM

Ok, I admit I would go for it. Not because I wanted to get married, but because I'm very competitive and I would want to win. LOL! I hate it when someone beats me at something. :D

ikkin510

07-03-2006, 10:49 AM

Steve really wants to do the tossing. I don't have many single girl friends, but he has a lot of guys. My florist gave me a free tossing bunch. I think I will be preserving mine. Which reminds me, I should look into what that entails and how much it costs!

AllyM1

07-03-2006, 10:57 AM

We did our flowers ourselves and we bought extra flowers just incase we messed up. After we were done we just took the flowers that were left and put them into a tossing bouquet.

One of my bm's caught it but gave it to my little neice

usahgrad

07-03-2006, 11:07 AM

I had a toss bouquet and kept my bouquet. I was suprised how well it dried! I'm going to buy a case for it to put on our new shelves once we move downstairs! YAY!

CindySue

07-03-2006, 11:15 AM

There was only 1 single person at our wedding so the toss seemed pointless. What we did was give the extra bouquet to Brians grandmother and told her that we hope our marriage can last as long as hers. Her and Brians grandpa have been married for over 75 years. It wasnt quite the "dedication" I was planning to do but it was still special.

WhiskeyGirl

07-03-2006, 12:14 PM

We did do a bouqet toss but with a toss bouqet because I was so not going to toss $150 bouqet to the wolves. (so to speak! lol)

I ended up drying my flowers at home and this is how they look almost a year later!

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/CanadianBride/DSC00283.jpg

Not the best, but not the worst either! :)

Amber818

07-03-2006, 01:45 PM

Yeah, maybe you need to be a little more grateful, and preserve that **** thing! JMO! jk;) ......LOL! We'll see what it looks like first, in order to make a determination of whether we would be able to just toss it in the garbage.

LOL...I knew you would say that. But you are just like me when it comes to perserving them...

MOB Karen

07-03-2006, 02:38 PM

LOL...I knew you would say that. But you are just like me when it comes to perserving them...

With how much that sucker cost ($175), I am going to have a very hard time just tossing it out, Amber. Very hard!

Kacie_bride

07-03-2006, 03:06 PM

My best friend got married a couple weeks after we all graduated high school. So when she did the bouqet toss, all of her friends who were 17 and 18 had to go up. So when we were up there, she tossed it. It landed right in the middle of all of us and EVERYONE backed up and just stared down at it. Fianlly her 7 yearold cousin ran in and grabbed it. The same thing happened with the guys for the garter toss, no one picked it up. I was 18 and had a life in front of me, I wasn't running the risk of picking that thing up and ruining everything, just in case.

A couple years later another friend got married and kept walking around the reception saying "I'm going to make sure Lacey catches it." WEll this was the first time Sean had really met any of my friends because we had only been going out a year. So when she tossed it, it landed right at my feet. I looked down at it, turned around, and walked away. Her sisters both literally dove after and had a fist fight over it right int he middle of the reception. Regardless to say, there wasn't much left. But the important thing was, it wasn't going home with me.

LOl. The wedding I was talking happened about a year after we graduated from high school. I was 19 and was not even considering being married. I don't think the bride was that happy about being married either. The only reason for that marriage was a pregnancy. No she is 24 and in the middle of a divorce. That was defiantely not the wedding I wanted to catch a bouquet at. In fact, I never have caught the bouquet!

rainbowtreat

07-03-2006, 07:13 PM

I was planning on silk flowers but my mom and her husband got me and my daugther our bouquets and all the guys boutneirs. For the girls we bought flowers and they made their bouquets along with a toss one. We didnt have many girls or guys but enough to make it fun. Sorry Lizabeth. I didnt mean to throw it to you. the first time I tossed it no one cought it and it landed on the floor. I picke dit up and told them some had better catch it.

When Nicholas threw the garter no one cought it either. It landed on the floor and slid under the table. His moms cousin picked it up.

I let mine, my daughters bouquets and Nicholas and deans bouts. dry. They are hanging in my living room. They may stay there for a while. They dont look bad.