Le toss de bouquet

Most brides anymore forgo the bouquet toss thinking that it's outdated and repulsive to remind everyone that some of your friends are single. I can understand that as there were a few times that I got drug out onto the floor not really wanting to land a man anyway (I didn't have the right hooks).

But I still had it at my wedding as a lot of people still expect it and seem sad if you don't.

It also gave me the best story ever.

This is my tall flowergirl. She's been with her boyfriend for over a year and just had to attend two weddings (mine and her brothers).

This is my wedding coordinator. At the time she was two weeks away from getting married and a little um shall we say tipsy.

They are both great friends and so excited to be sisters now, but that night they had a slight competition going on. One claimed that she had to catch the bouquet cause she was getting married next (as within two weeks) while the other said that it wasn't fair and she deserved it (she's also had a slight case of wedding fever).

In the end my tossing of the bouquet ended in this:

It's a good thing that the toss bouquet was poorly made and, if I say so myself, quite ugly. I hear that after the end of that little wrestling match they ended up with a bruised hip and ripped dress.

And see all those petals and various green bits, the small flowergirl decided that she should full fill her duties by picking it all up and giving to me.

After that little surprise my biggest regret is not having the pro photographer there to snap the bouquet toss. These are sadly the best pictures we have but there is at least some video footage.

I'd suggest that if you are gonna have the toss you may want to make a little emergency kit full of band-aids, tape, mouth guards, and a spit bucket.

And if you've decided not to do it, well you never know what fun you may be missing out on.

Dejavu

This past saturday was the wedding of my wedding coordinator and my organist (to each other, I didn't have to attend two weddings thank God). It was also held at the same church with the same minister using quite a bit of our decorations (which is really cool to see the different things that can be done with some silk flowers).

My guy and I were doing okay until we were called up to be in one of the professional pics. Then we both started getting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; flashing back to flower arguments, who should wear what and why someone says so, why certain things must be done a certain way, and damn am I sick and tired of standing up having my picture taken.

Okay so maybe it wasn't as bad as that, but it is a bit unnerving to be standing back at the same place you were just two weeks ago watching someone else go through it all. But having just done the wedding experience I had a better idea of what the bride really wanted.

Which was in no particular order:

1. Tons of pictures. Pictures of everything from guestbook to the aisle decorations.
2. Tons of video. We did have some video at our wedding but it was an afterthought. I was so glued to the camera for them I could barely lift my right arm the next day (must invest in a tripod).
3. Just being as helpful for the bride as possible. Luckily I'm really good at this and just sort of know what has to be done regardless of the confusing orders brought on by stress (I now know that church like the back of my hand too).

But rather than listen to me babble on about how a newlywed makes the best "wedding gopher" I'll just show you some of the pictures from the wedding:

The gorgeous church, this time decked out with tulle but using our same pew bows and then she ripped up some of the flowers we had in vases to put in the tulle. It looked awesome.
The blushing bride talking to her photographer. I just love this picture, she looks so relaxed and excited.
The groom, calm and cool as always.

It was a fun time of trying to do our best of keeping him from seeing the bride. I think at least 10 times I would find him and tell him he either had to run off to another part of the church or stay right where he was. I should have just brought a blind fold.Does she look familiar? Yes that is my tall flower girl. It was her brother that was the one getting married. It's like the wedding version of Six degrees from Kevin Bacon.The table centerpieces at the reception.

It was such a simple but gorgeous piece. The best part, we didn't have to take them down at all. The woman the bride hired to make them does all the cleanup too.

The head table.

Let me tell ya this place for the reception was gorgeous. A beautiful wood lodge room, complete with a fireplace behind the newlyweds. The sun setting behind everyone was perfect too.

The bouquet toss.

I have to give my guy props for this picture. I was busy filming while he was taking pictures and is this not too perfect? And I'll soon post the story of my bouquet toss and why it's so entertaining (lets just say it involves two people in this picture).

Congrats you two. It was a gorgeous wedding, and it was lots of fun. Maybe we should start having dual anniversarys too.