i think its after the meal and speeches xx

I'm doing it before the first dance.

I ordered one bridal boquet and 4 bridesmaid boquets off ebay but i only have 3 bridesmaid so i will trow the spare incase i dont get i back. Single ladies are like vultures. I will probably throw it after the meal when everybody is ready to move out so they can rearrange the room x

Im having a 'fake' throwing for the photos because i want to keep mine. Although my mum has suggested getting an extra bridesmaid bouquet or a bunch of roses from tesco and using one of these for throwing so might do that. My first wedding i threw the bouquet during the reception after cake cutting so everyone had a chance of catching it.

Oh and i've been told that if we were getting married in a church then we shouldn't use fake flowers!! Has anyone else heard this??

Ive never heard of that and i had silk at my first wedding babe and that was in a church. Who told you that??

wer having one but with a difference,,,wer having a rugby line up throw in with the men!!!!!

not sure when am throwing mine! Maybe before the first dance

It was a florist that told me. I don't know where she got it from!

I'm not going to throw mine. I am going to put mine on my grandmothers grave...she died 12 years ago last week and I miss her everyday!

Yes I would suggest doing in the evening reception perhaps after the first dance? xx

Lol Debz thats such a cool idea!!!!! I am not throwing mine either its a bit American for my tastes not really a Brit tradition also I wont to send my flowers to my bed-bound aunt who can't make it and what if the person who catches them does not give them back tragic. :D

As a photographer I see lots of brides that do/don't throw their bouqets some have another small one made so they can throw that one and save there original.

I'm not throwing mine..I'm keeping it lol :D xx
Not all traditions have to be kept lol.

Found this girls thought it was interesting.

The wedding bouquet is a tradition that goes back almost as far as weddings themselves. While it's obvious that the flowers are a symbol of fertility, the origins of the wedding bouquet and the tradition of throwing the bouquet (thus passing on that fertility) to another available young lady are less clear. Suffice to say that the wedding bouquet is now a time-honored tradition that is observed in most weddings today.

Once just a simple and small collection of flowers, the wedding bouquet has evolved over time to the point where literally hundreds of dollars are now spent on beautifully designed and arranged ornate wedding bouquets. Most modern brides, in fact, will often have two bouquets. One elaborate wedding bouquet is designed to be carried down the aisle during the ceremony and used in photographs while the other is typically smaller and designed to be thrown into the throng of the bride's available girlfriends who will then proceed to scramble and claw at one another in an attempt to be the lucky girl who "catches" the bouquet and thus becomes the next woman destined to be married.

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