Precisely correct. I read a list of “flirting tips” a while back that advised men to specifically phrase compliments in the form of “you look great in those boots” rather than “those boots look great,” so as to emphasize that you’re complimenting the person rather than the object. But speaking as somebody who’s been…

Remember, keep it personal and keep it simple:

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I kind of love it - the toss at our wedding devolved into a legit rugby brawl (my uni team mates plus my husband’s farmhand cousins - yowza), complete with complicated lifts and called plays. It was a thing of beauty. The teenaged cousin who ended up with the bouquet then got carried around on the shoulders of 20 or…

Honestly, this should just be the new tradition. It’s cute, stressless, doesn’t put anyone on the spot and it has all the same pomp and symbolism for even a crotchety grandma to appreciate.

Pretty much every article on I Thee Dread, somebody says that, and then somebody else counters that actually the white dress was an indicator that you had enough money to afford to buy a dress exclusively for your wedding. Most people wore their best clothes for their wedding, but buying a white dress - with white…

I don’t know; I’m torn. I am not really into the idea of a bouquet toss and am not doing one at my wedding, BUT if I were drunk enough and you threw anything at me with instructions to beat out everyone else and catch it, I might get pretty competitive. I’m wondering how much this is about wanting to get married or…

I’m usually like this lady with the cocktail.

I refused to participate in bouquet-catches when I was single, and I also refused to toss the bouquet at my wedding. I did, however, toss a small bouquet of wildflowers at my dissertation-defense after-party. (Catch it and you’ll be next to graduate!) One of the other doctoral students caught it, but graciously handed…

If we’re going to toss the bouquet toss (seewhatididthere), why wouldn’t we also toss the white dress? I mean, doesn’t it stand for purity/untouched virginity? If there was ever a sexist tradition...(besides, arguably, marriage itself. Though I think that the terms are changing).

Maybe I am an odd person but I love it when people respond to a bouquet toss like someone just threw a dead squirrel on the ground.

I’m not a fan of the bouquet toss. For my wedding I decided to do something for my mom instead.

The only time I ever caught a bouquet was during a promotion at a Lush store, and whoever caught it would win a bath bomb. I caught it one-handed because they were also giving out cupcakes.

I was one of those women - this happened at the wedding of a really old friend of mine. She dragged us all up there, and we grudgingly lined up but when that bouquet flew towards us it had the powers of Moses parting the waters. It bounced twice before skidding into the wall.

5 brides have used the pins now (the ribbon got a little ratty) and I don’t even know the last 2 brides outside of some sweet notes and photos they sent me, but its a really cool little connection and a “something borrowed” for them.

The last wedding I went to where they did a bouquet toss, everyone took a step backwards and it landed on the floor and all the old ladies tutted.

That’s a really good suggestion, thank you. I’m 24 and my parents got me a some really nice stuff and some cheap stuff to get me by. Registering now, my fiance and I are like..do we need a ton of stuff? We don’t like having a lot of things/clutter, we are in an apartment not a house and we already have what we need!…

This, entirely. We had a city hall wedding but a party a month later (my husband wanted it; I was keen to skip it, but it was all he asked for). We're old (mid 30s), have a whole house full of perfectly good stuff with absolutely no storage space to spare, and felt super uncomfortable using our loved ones as a ticket…

I see your point, but... I’m not a frugal person by nature, but I am constantly in the process of trying to avoid stuff for the sake of stuff. Is our stuff the nicest? No. Does it need to be shiner/newer/more fabulous? No. Is there a shortage of plates at Goodwill? No. I know it’s not for everybody, but getting rid of…

This. Bridal showers are for gifts off the registry. Weddings are for $$$$$ Although, I got a really nice cat tower (it was on our registry!) from someone as a wedding gift and I really appreciated it because no one else wanted to buy us cat things, even though half our registry was cat-related. We already live…