The Bouquet

Is the traditional bridal bouquet toss not for you? Many modern brides are ditching this tradition altogether, and looking for new variations and interpretations. Many women see the bouquet toss as pressure and hate the implication that single women are chomping at the bit to be married.

Here are four alternatives to the traditional bridal bouquet toss that might suit your big day:

Wish Come True Bouquet Toss - Invite all the women onto the dance floor, married and single. Ask them all to make a wish right as the bouquet is tossed and whoever catches it will get their wish.

Fortune Bouquet Toss - Invite everyone onto the dance floor and have a bouquet that consists of several small bunches of flowers held together in your hand. On each bunch, have a handwritten "fortune" attached to it. When you throw the flower bunches in the air, they break apart so several people will get a smaller "fortune" bouquet. Before throwing a break apart bouquet make sure they are easily separated and not entwined together so they really do break apart in the air.

Longest Married Bouquet Toss - Invite all married couples onto the dance floor and have the DJ announce that everyone married less than 5 years to leave, then less than 10 years to leave and so on until the couple married the longest is left dancing, then award that couple with the bouquet.

Special Honors Bouquet Toss - Split up the bouquet into halves and give one half to your mother and one to your mother-in-law. The bridal bouquet could also be presented to grandparents, split apart for all the women in the bridal party, presented to your maid of honor, your sisters, a friend who is engaged, etc. Think of someone you’d like to honor and give it to them as a "good luck" bouquet.

Added touches of planning like these are the things that will set your wedding apart and keep it fresh in all your friends and families minds.