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Well, this is ironic. Typically, women – and boys – do whatever it takes to catch the bouquet. Not these independent ladies! They look scared to touch the damn thing. I’m pretty sure several rounds of high-fives and margaritas are in order.
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Maybe because the guy who caught the garter is unattractive…
“In the mid-twentieth century it became common for a bride to toss her bouquet over her shoulder to the assembled unmarried women during the reception. The woman who catches it, superstition has it, will be the next to marry. In a similar process, her groom tosses the bride’s garter to the unmarried men, followed by the man who caught the garter placing it on the leg of the woman who caught the bouquet. While still common in many circles, these practices (particularly the latter) are falling into less favor in the 21st century.”
They did that at my friend’s wedding and once we all found out what was going to happen, no one went for the bouquet!
looks more like a dead rooster
That’s actually what happened at my best friends wedding. The bouquet was coming straight at me, and I didn’t want it, so I stepped out of the way. It hit the floor, and we all kind of looked at it until one girl finally picked it up. Funny, we had red strapless dresses very similar to the ones in this picture! For a minute I thought that might be our pictures…:-)
Funny? That’s hilarious! Similar dresses? Bwaa hahaha
You really should stop trolling Cheezburger comments sections looking for attention. Absolutely any idiot could pull off getting away with it (so it doesn’t distinguish you as a consummate trickster or manipulator), it causes you to appear pathetically needy, and it makes it look as if you had nothing better to do, which would be sad if it were true. I strongly advise that you behave like a grown-up next time.
That scene was played out on Northern Exposure. The bouquet laid there on the floor like a dead thing, no one willing to touch it.
i have a confession…. I WILL NEVER ATTEMPT TO CATCH A BOUQUET AT A WEDDING. i find it demeaning. just because you’re unmarried, doesn’t mean you’re desperate to become so! i hide in the crowd when it’s time for the bouquet toss… or in the toilet, depending how fierce older members of the wedding party are.
Yeah, except, dude….free flowers. Hella.
Yeah, but who wants dying reproductive organs, aka “flowers”? I mean, really.
That IS pretty funny. “Hell no.. I’m not catching that thing!”
Ah, that reminds me of my cousins wedding. First it to them several minutes to track down the unmarried women and corral us one area, then we all took a step away when the thing hit the ground, so my cousin had to come get the darn thing and throw it hard enough that it hit someone in order to count as a “catch.”
Good times.
We didnt do either the garter or boquet toss at our wedding, just because everyone hates them so much! That, and our wedding was so small that most of the people were family, and that couldve been awkward depending on who caught what…
So you don’t live in Kentucky? (Or W. Virginia, or Arkansas, or [insert your own idea of a state where, if two people are married, move to another state and get a divorce the question arises, "Are they still brother and sister?"]).
I love this! At my best friend’s wedding, the flower girl caught the bouquet (she had her mother holding her up to get some leverage.)
At my wedding my brother-in-law reached over everyone (he’s 6’5) and nabbed the thing like it was the last piece of elastic and blue lace on earth…which was news to his common law wife! (And they did get married two years later, for the romantics).
i hope the man who caught the garter didn’t put it on her leg…
Sidenote, i really love those bridesmaids dresses.
I AGREE , CTO NICE CLASSY DRESSES, PRETTY COLOR TOO ESPECIALLY FOR A FALL OR EVENING WEDDING. THE LAST WEDDING I WENT TOO, THE UNMARRIED GIRLS WERE RACING FOR THE THROWN BOQUET, IN THE PROCESS, WHILE SMALL CHILD WAS WALKING PAST THE MOB, A VERY OBESE WOMAN (TRYING TO CATCH THE BOQUET) FELL ON THE SMALL CHILD. SIDENOTE TO SMALL CHILD’S MOTHER….WHY WERENT YOU WATCHING YOUR CHILD SO SHE WOULDNT WANDER IN FRONT OF THE MOB OF WOMEN???
side note why are you YELLING?
my capslock is broken, too.
I want to pass on a little wisdom from my own wedding. Put a $20 bill in the bouquet, whisper this information to all the single ladies. You will have even married women sneaking out on the floor to catch it once word gets around.
Chose to bypass the garter since my family is ultraconservative and having my new husband crawl up my dress in mid-afternoon seemed odd. Also figured I might get a little hot in all those layers and didn’t want to be throwing a sweaty garter.
Side note: I have only caught a bouquet once in my life… at a wedding where my boyfriend caught the garter… I married that man a few years later
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I have a bone to pick with your wording.
Just because a woman isn’t desperate to get married, doesn’t make her “independent”. That’s essentially saying that all the women who are willing to get married, or are already married, are “dependent” on someone. Think about it: if a man did not want to get married, he would not be called “independent” for it. It would have been better if you just referred to them as bachelorettes.
And, as someone else pointed out, just because you’re single, it doesn’t mean you want to catch the bouquet.
Those Women’s Studies classes have made you such a hit at parties.
Permanent Panty-Bunching Syndrome. Chelsea has it.
Screw you. I believe the wording is inappropriate.
And for your information, I have never taken classes on anything resembling Women’s Studies. Some of the terminology we use today is pretty outdated. They called women “independent” when my parents were young. It’s time it got lost from our vocabulary as it applies to the female gender.
Some people mistake “taking things seriously” for “being a downer.” It is unfortunate that such people exist.
Besides, what’s wrong with women’s studies?
You mean besides the fact that they ruin women?
“Screw you” was the better of your two responses, but you’re right (and Lars put the PBS label on the wrong person here). People who call “some women” who don’t want to get married “independent” are the women’s studies nitwits who are as parochial as they imagine their ideological opponents to be.
Hmm. Good point.
Did the same thing at a friend’s wedding. Before the toss, I was dragged out onto the dance floor by the bridesmaids, who clearly wanted me to catch it.
When it came at me, I dove to the ground and covered my head.
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ewwww don’t touch it! It has cooties!!! Yucky wedding cooties!!!
You have CDO, too. Such a terrible illness. *deadpanning*
Poison Ivy bouquet..?
Hm, actually happened at a friend’s wedding.
We were quite numerous, but somehow managed to stand in a kind of circle – BAM! boquet in the middle.
And it almos stayed there, I guess noone wanted the others to believe she is desperate.
Mind you, we were mostly in the early or mid-twenties, so… I still don’t get why it happened.