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P<\/span>arading all the single women at your wedding onto the dance floor and asking them to fight each other over some flowers is a time-honored wedding tradition. Or is it?<\/span><\/p>\n According to The Knot 2018 Real Weddings Study, the bouquet toss decreased in popularity from 54% in 2016 to\u00a045%\u00a0in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n Experts attribute much of the decline to couples choosing to include personalized activities during their wedding over more traditional events (In The Knot\u2019s 2019 study, 55% of couples said it was important their wedding was a true reflection of their relationship.). <\/span>Additionally, the garter toss, which often accompanies the bouquet toss, is on the decline, <\/span>with only 33% of to-be-weds planning on incorporating the garter toss into their wedding in 2018, down from 41% in 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is many couples choose to create their own traditions rather than incorporate old ones.<\/span><\/p>\n Per tradition, the DJ usually calls all unmarried women to the dance floor to participate in the bouquet toss. The bride typically uses a smaller toss-away bouquet so she doesn\u2019t have to give away her real one, although some use their traditional bouquet. Once the ladies assemble, the bride turns around and tosses the arrangement over her head. The lucky gal who catches the bouquet is said to be the next to get married.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The bouquet toss has a similar history to the garter toss. It began the medieval belief that obtaining a piece of a bride\u2019s wedding gown would bring good luck, according to\u00a0<\/span>Brides.com<\/span><\/a>. 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.\u00a0Tradition also evolved to tossing the bouquet to pass along a bride\u2019s \u201cluck.\u201d bride, who was clearly lucky in love, passed her luck onto a single woman with hopes that she would soon marry, according to <\/span>a Reader\u2019s Digest article<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Bottom line: It\u2019s YOUR wedding. If you enjoy the bouquet toss, go for it! But if not, don\u2019t feel pressured to include it for the sake of \u201ctradition.\u201d If you do choose to participate, check out or song recommendations in our blog,\u00a0<\/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 read our blogs on <\/span>the garter toss<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>whether white is always right<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parading all the single women at your wedding onto the dance floor and asking them to fight each other over some flowers is a time-honored wedding tradition. Or is it? According to The Knot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[227,164],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-traditions","tag-cleveland-wedding-traditions","tag-wedding-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","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=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}