How many of you all are following tradition for your wedding?

Question

You know strippers at the bach/bachlorette party

groom cant see bride before wedding

Refrigerate the top of the cake for a year

and every other thing you suppose to do.

Answer 1

We decided to throw all traditions out the window entirely because we wanted our wedding to completely reflect us.  We even got rid of the traditional wedding party titles of "maid of honor" and "best man"  My head girl has the title of "Lady of Reigning Awesome" and my fiance's main guy has the title of "Minister of Keeping it Real"  haha... we're so nuts!

I doubt I'll make him stay away before the wedding just so he can't see me, but he can't see my dress because I want it to be a complete surprise when he sees me for the first time.

We also aren't having bouquets for my girls.  They're carrying hurricane lamps with lit candles inside, with long, trailing ivy cascading about to their knees.

There's several things we decided not to do, and some things we decided to incorporate that aren't traditional but they are definitely 'us.'

My suggestion to anyone who's going to be getting married is make sure your day reflects YOU, not family and friends who put pressure on you to do what THEY want.

Answer 2

1. No strippers for either of us. Since when is that a tradition?

2. He will see me the day of... probably before ceremony for pictures just because we are having wedding at 6 and we want pictures outside in the sunlight before it fades.

3. We aren't refrigerating the cake. We are having a destination wedding and they aren't that good a year later, anyway.

Answer 3

We observed the traditions we felt were meaningful and let the others pass without mention. There was no bridal party, I shared the bed with my groom the night before our wedding, we rode to the location together, and walked down the aisle together, I wasn't "given away" by anyone, no favors or programs, no bachelor/ette parties....many other things I can't think of.

On the other hand, I did wear a traditional wedding gown, we had a shower, we did have a wedding cake/cut the cake (didn't save any), we did dance with our mothers (my father is deceased), etc.

Answer 4

We didn't have a bach/bachelorette party.

My husband and I spent the night before the wedding together.  We spent the day together, also.

We did get dressed seperately.

He helped me pick out the dress so he already knew what it looked like.

We did keep the top of the cake (my SIL vacuum bagged it).

We didn't do the traditional parent dances. But we did have our first dance.

We weren't going to do the money dance but our guests asked us to do it.

Answer 5

strippers- NO

groom can't see bride - yes

freeze cake for year- no

garter toss- yes

flower toss- yes

something old, new, borrowed, blue- some of it (old- yes, new- yes, borrowed-no, blue-yes)

first dance- yes

father/bride and mother/groom dance-yes

tinking of glass to make couple kiss-no

father walk bride down isle- yes

white wedding dress-no (mine was a creamish wine color..)

so i guess my wedding was very traditional...but it was what i wanted. a fairy tale wedding

Answer 6

  My family always have a court house wedding when we bother to have one at all.

Answer 7

I am not a traditional bride, there's a lot of things I don't want at my wedding. For example; I don't want a vail, I hate those things.  I don't want a white dress but rather go for a champagne color or coral. I don't want my reception in a hall of any kind. I want to hold the reception outdoors, preferably in a garden over looking the ocean or a mountain. The seating I want it to be family style...meaning having just one long table for us and our guests it makes it more personal. Speaking of guests, I will not invite everyone I know, I just want my family and his present and two of our best-friends. I don't want brides maids or flower girls, or ring bearers.  

Answer 8

Actually, at my bachelor's aprty, we ate pizza, drank Foster's beer in the huge cans, played a war game and watched a cowboy movie (The Wild Bunch). It was great!

No one had any hard feelings, we all had a fun time, and no one had to be embarrassed at what remains the second greatest day of my life (the greatest day of my life was July 10, 1992, when I met the woman who would become my wife on a blind date)!

We did not refrigerate the top of the cake because we were travelling back and forth from Chicago to Connecticut and back by train and it would not have kept. Instead, we ate it the evening after the wedding.

Answer 9

We are doing the bachelor/bachelorette parties but no strippers,

I am staying at my moms house the night before since I live with my fiance so he cant see me before,

Im definitely refrigerating the top of the cake!

But... my mom is giving me away, and my dress isnt all-white (it has blue trim), we are having mini cakes for each guest and a two tier for me and my fiance

So not everything is going to be traditional