{"id":13872,"date":"2021-03-11T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2021-03-11T19:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:34:42","slug":"bucking-tradition-garter-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wedding-traditions\/bucking-tradition-garter-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucking Tradition: Garter Toss"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>f you\u2019re questioning whether to include the garter toss in your wedding reception, you\u2019re not alone: <\/span>The Knot 2018 Real Weddings Study<\/span><\/a>\u00a0found that only 33% of to-be-weds were planning on incorporating the garter toss into their wedding, down from 41% in 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Much of the decline is due to couples\u2019 aversion to the overtly sexual tone of removal in front of their friends and family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Per tradition, the groom typically removes the bride\u2019s garter sometime during the reception, usually by ducking under her dress and making a show of pulling it down with his hands or teeth. The bride typically dons the toss-away garter right before the toss or wears it below a more formal garter reserved for her partner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern brides typically wear the garter a few inches above the knee to make it easier to remove without showing too much skin to friends and relatives, according to <\/span>BrideBox.com<\/span><\/a>. This also makes for more tasteful photos. There is no particular leg that is more common for garter wear so brides most often choose whatever is most comfortable.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The garter toss has an interesting history beginning with the medieval belief that obtaining a piece of a bride\u2019s wedding gown would bring good luck, according to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>BrideBox.com. This led many women to literally rip a bride\u2019s dress to shreds to possess a piece of the precious fabric.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, brides began wearing a bridal garter to supply guests with a piece of the dress without damaging it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The newlywed couple would also provide the garter to family and friends as proof of the marriage\u2019s consummation. These stakeholders would wait outside the bedroom, often heckling the couple, until the groom provided the prize. Eventually, the groom began the more discreet practice of tossing the garter to guests prior to entering the bedroom,\u00a0<\/span>according to Reader\u2019s Digest.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bottom line: It\u2019s YOUR wedding. If you enjoy the garter toss, tradition go for it! But if not, don\u2019t feel pressured to include it for the sake of \u201ctradition.\u201d If you do choose to a garter toss, check out or song recommendations in our blog, <\/span>\u201cTop 10 Bouquet and Garter Toss Songs.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And to learn more about how brides are \u201cbucking tradition\u201d by reading about whether white is always right in our blog, <\/span>\u201cBucking Tradition: Wearing White.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re questioning whether to include the garter toss in your wedding reception, you\u2019re not alone: The Knot 2018 Real Weddings Study\u00a0found that only 33% of to-be-weds were planning on incorporating the garter toss into their wedding, down from 41% in 2016. Much of the decline is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[227,380,164],"class_list":["post-13872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-traditions","tag-cleveland-wedding-traditions","tag-garter-toss-tradition","tag-wedding-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}