Weddings are usually complete with time-honored traditions and some new trends thrown in for fun.
One tradition that seemed to pass it’s time is the garter toss.
“I would say my wedding was both traditional and modern, but I enjoy more of the modern wedding style,” Kallie Martin Cook, said. “We kept the tradition of the cake cutting and the bouquet toss, but I got rid of the garter toss because I didn’t want somebody digging up my dress in front of my family: it would’ve been awkward.”
“The modern aspects of my wedding were instead of the garter toss we had our emcee ask us questions, and we gave the answers to them by raising each shoe. My groom and I did our vows alone when we did are first looks. I had both my parents walk me down the aisle. Usually at the end, when the bride and groom exit, guests would throw rice or bird seed but instead we had a bubble exit,” Cook said.
An old favorite is the something borrowed, something blue, something old, something new.
“I would say my wedding was more traditional; I enjoy more traditional weddings,” Mrs. Makayla Woodson, math teacher, said. “I had all the first dances, a cake cutting ceremony, and I did the traditions of something old which were my pajamas I wore while getting ready; new that was my wedding shoes; borrowed was Mrs. Scott’s veil, and my something blue was the keychain wrapped around my bouquet.”
“My modern festivities were that I didn’t do a bouquet toss, I instead honored it to my mother, and I definitely didn’t do a garter toss because I feel like that was disrespectful for my husband to do in front of my dad, but other than that I kept all the traditions,” Woodson said.
“My wedding was more traditional; it should just be what the bride wants,” Mrs. Sheri Williams, French teacher, said. “I had all the traditions like bridesmaids, groomsmen, and a cake-cutting ceremony, but I guess I didn’t do a bouquet toss because I still have my bouquet. We didn’t have any dancing, and my only rule was just showing up and having fun.”
