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Most brides anymore forgo the bouquet toss thinking that it's outdated and repulsive to remind everyone that some of your friends are single.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.

Which would you wear?

Okay lets assume you're a guy. Better, you're a groom. (Scary, no? Now you have no control over the wedding)

I'll wait while you adjust and get used to wearing boxers.

Got the male mentality going on? Good.

Which of these two boutonnieres would you rather wear?

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2.

I made one and my mother the other (I won't say who made which to influence you). My Mom made everyone's various corsages and bouts so one of these match everyones while the other I snipped a flower off of my bouquet and used that to make it.

It was pretty entertaining for my guy as I kept running back and forth to see if the thing was gonna fit or not while he killed Dracula or his minions or something. Not to mention all the hot glue I got everywhere.

I know that my skill with flowers is next to null so I'm not sure which one looks better in the end. But my mothers sense of style is a bit over the top (wait til I get some pictures of her version of our unity candle).

I could just let him pick whatever one he wants to wear but I think he's officially "just staying out of it" so I ask you fellow bloggers and blog lurkers what one would you as a guy rather wear?

What if I don't want a damn florist?

You know it is about damn impossible to get any information about how to have silk flowers at your wedding.

Yes, I want to have some fake flowers. I guess that makes me as evil as someone who rips apart plants in their spare time, as uncouth as someone who wears a top hat to a ceiling fan convention, and well as cheap as Scrooge. But that's how I like it.

I never got the point of having real flowers. You pay through the nose (to appease said appendage), you're at the whim of mother nature (who let's face it, likes to send you to your room with no dinner when she's had a bit too much to drink), and you miss out on the joys of hot gluing your self and possibly your pet to a table.

So we've gone silk, it might be considered non traditional, or at least bat shit crazy, but then again that's who we are. (The fact that my entire floral budget is under $50 doesn't hurt either).