Wedding Forum - Bridal Bouquet Toss...

Hi All,

When usually does the bride throw the bouquet? And I would like to keep my bridal bouquet (I have seen you can have them made in to paperweights or preserved in a frame) so do I need another bouquet made up for it then?

Thanks! xx

I threw mine once our evening guests had arrived. I didn't originally want to throw it, but our photographer wanted a shot of me throwing it off the balcony as he said it would make a lovely shot. I had an artificial bouquet and just retrieved it from the lucky catcher later in the evening :-)

I didn't do a bouquet toss, not that many of my friends at the wedding were single or unmarried so didn't really seem worthwhile, didn't want to throw my beautiful flowers anyway ha ha.

I have a dried wheat bouquet... Im igjt take someones eye out if i toss it. Lol
Im sure you toss the bouquet before you leave with your hubby... Also people have secondry bouquets made for the toss.

I won't be doing the toss. I'm having a brooch bouquet so Throwing would be a terrible idea I wanted to keep it afterwards and thought this would be a great way.

I don't think there's a time you have to do it. You could do it straight after the ceremony before you head off to the reception or when your taking the wedding photos. If you want to preserve it I'd get another made or throw the flower girls

Danielle that's such a sweet idea :-)

I didn't throw mine as I just didn't want to. My sister threw one but not hers, she threw one of the bridesmaid bouquets instead.

You could just get one made up to throw if you want to keep yours.

Usually it's thrown after the wedding breakfast just before the evening reception.

Ive never heard of putting the wedding flowers on a loved ones grave, but its such a lovely thought! My granddad died last year and he was suppose to walk me down the aisle, but the comments have made me think about getting a nice preserved buttonhole to match with my h2b and put it on his grave :)

I never thought about it actually most of the people coming to the wedding are in couples, there are only a few single people, but my mum and her partner have been together for 10 years, so I really want her to catch it as its about time he popped the question so this would be a big hint if she caught it lol!

I had a mini version of my bouquet made up that I threw and the lucky catchee got to keep :)

I went to a wedding recently where she threw her actual bouquet then asked for it back, but it had got a bit battered as a guy caught it and threw it at the nearest single girl.....

Yea it's nice to do. Unfortunately my sisters grave was too far away for us to leave mines there before we went on honeymoon so we put the bridesmaids bouquets on our grandparents graves and we stretched hubby's buttonhole to my bouquet and put it on his brothers grave