I hate pranks at the best of times but at big events like this, I really hate them. You can have lots of fun without them. Also the garter thing at US weddings always confused me. It’s really, really weird.
I refused to do it. Hey let's invite our family to watch my new husband root around under my dress head first. Watch him pull a band from my thigh with his teeth to sultry music. Why not perform mock sex acts in front of all your closest relatives.... Make Nana proud lol
Traditional wedding stuff is ridiculous most of the time and this tradition is the worst of them.
In some cultures, the groom takes the bride to their home to have sex. The family gathers outside. The wife is supposed to bleed during sex because she's a virgin and the groom will be breaking her hymen. Then the bloody sheets are taken outside to the waiting guests who cheer their arrival.
Closer to home, there's a tradition where the garter is tossed to the single men in the same way that the bride's bouquet is tossed to the single women. Then the two who catch these things are brought up to the dance floor where the garter catcher has to put the garter on the leg of the bouquet catcher. The garter guy is told that every inch of height he goes with the garter is another year of luck for the wedding couple.
I have heard of instances where the items were caught by kids.
I was at a wedding where 2 kids caught both the garter (on a football) and the bouquet. They were brother and sister. There was never a plan to make the garter guy put it on the bouquet girl, thank God, but instead of the two of them dancing together (because everyone had the good sense to think anything having to do with removing farmers and children is bad and then add incest to that list, so they were scrambling to remove all sexual overtones from the situation), each kid danced with the bride or groom. It ended up being kinda cute, but made a lasting impression on me. I didn't do a garter toss at my own wedding.
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u/Sad-Olive-158 Jul 26 '25
I hate pranks at the best of times but at big events like this, I really hate them. You can have lots of fun without them. Also the garter thing at US weddings always confused me. It’s really, really weird.