Planning our wedding!

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BlueEyedLady said:
What is the shoe game?
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You seat the bride and groom back to back and have them remove their shoes.
Groom gives one of his shoe to the bride & bride gives one of hers to him.

They are asked a list of questions to determine how well they know each other.
Things like “Who is most likely to be annoyed by long grass and mow the lawn first?”
They raise the shoe of the person they think it will be.
 
Phemie said:
You seat the bride and groom back to back and have them remove their shoes.
Groom gives one of his shoe to the bride & bride gives one of hers to him.

They are asked a list of questions to determine how well they know each other.
Things like “Who is most likely to be annoyed by long grass and mow the lawn first?”
They raise the shoe of the person they think it will be.
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That is too cute! We may have to do that at our rehearsal dinner!!!

Reminds me of a bachelorette party game I’m doing for my best friend in a few weeks. I went to the groom and asked him a list of about 30 questions. Things like the name of his first pet, his dream job, biggest fear, favorite actor, etc. I’m also picking up a very nice, fancy box of chocolates from a really nice candy store and a bunch of bubble gum. At the party I will ask her the questions to see how well she knows him. For every question that she gets right I’ll put one of the nice chocolates in a box for her to have later. But for every one she gets wrong…she has to put a piece of bubble gum in her mouth.

As the MoH I will be keeping any unearned chocolate for myself.😃
 
BlueEyedLady said:
I think the dollar dance is more of a Midwestern thing. I don’t see a problem with it because I’ve always seen it done, and all the guests know what it is, expect it, and enjoy it. I think it’s nice if for no other reason than it gives the bride and groom a minute with everyone to say hi, thank them for coming, etc. And the guests get a private moment to wish the couple well.

The bride and groom are then given the money for their honeymoon.
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Its a huge tradition on both sides of my family and honestly, I’ve never attended a Catholic wedding in my area that didn’t have a dollar dance as well. The dance floor was cleared but it was all polka music and once the guest is done dancing with either the bride or the groom, if they’re of age, they get a shot of whiskey or schnapps. People can give any denomination they want and can go throught the line as many times as they want too. I’ve always remembered it as being a lot of fun for all, both when I was a guest and when I was the bride. Its usually done towards the end of the reception and when it seems everyone has gone through the line for their chance to dance with either the bride or the groom, the guests form a circle around the bride so the groom can’t cant to her and take her away to begin the honeymoon. Its usually a final farewell to the newly married couple and the guests then stay and party until the reception is over.

Some people may call it “tacky” but I think I would have been disowned by both my extended family and my husband’s if we had decided not to include the “dollar dance” at our reception. We’re both Polish, German and Slovakian backgrounds, the people must have their polkas and dollar dance in our families.

AND a cookie table, people around here MUST have their cookies.
 
bdjohnbg said:
I’m very excited to be planning mine and my fiance’s wedding, (only 14 months to go!), but I have to say it gets a tad bit overwhelming at times! I guess I didn’t realize how much work goes into it, lol!

At any rate, I’m posting a thread here looking for some suggestions about something specific. My fiance and I find the whole reaching up my dress, pulling off a garter, and tossing it to other men thing kind of vulgar. I’m not necessarily judging people who want to do that, I’m just saying it isn’t for us. The problem is that we cannot decide whether to replace it with something else (and if so, what??), or to just nix it completely and have me just toss the bouquet. Or should we just not do either??

(Side note: I did pose this question to our wedding party, but they all seem to agree that we are silly for letting that bother us, since they view it as a simple wedding reception “tradition.”)

I suppose I would just like to hear what other people think. Are we being silly, or should we do something else? And what suggestions would you have?

Thanks for reading, and responding!
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Congratulations!!! 🙂

As others have mentioned, do what makes you happy and comfortable. If you don’t want to do the garter toss or bouquet toss, don’t do it. Some people may not like it, but it isn’t their wedding.

We didn’t do the bouquet toss or garter either, mainly because of the garter issue. I used to think I’d want to do it, but after being at too many weddings where taking off and putting on the garter just got a tad too inappropriate and uncomfortable to watch (and I’m no prude), I just didn’t want that at our wedding. That said, I do remember a funny one where they had the boy who caught the garter sit on the chair and hold the bouquet while the girl who caught the bouquet but the garter on his leg over his pants. The two of them had a really fun time of it.

We did do the cake cutting and fed the cake to each other with forks. Fortunately, my husband agreed to not smashing the cake. We did have a game where I had a bouquet made for the longest married couple at our wedding. A few of my friends did that at their weddings and I thought it was really sweet. We also gave away our centerpieces by having the person at each table with the birthday closest to our wedding day get to take the centerpiece home.

The other thing we did was my mother hired a Filipino dance troupe to do a few traditional dances (which my mother used to do as a girl and young woman) during the reception before the main dancing started. They ended it by doing the Tinikiling youtube.com/watch?v=8SqZRQWC6AQ

and then invited guests to try it out. We have some great pics of that, especially of my husband’s facial expressions. Our guests really enjoyed the dancing and the fun at the end of the dance, especially our non-Filipino guests who never experienced it.
 
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