What is the purpose of a Garter?

Question

does it symbolize something?

Answer 1

No. It used to be very important, before the days of stretchy fabrics like lycra and such. People used to wear woolen stockings, and a garter was tied around the leg to keep them from falling down. Nowadays, we have materials that have elastic and lycra in them so that they won't fall down even if we don't use a garter. So garters have become somewhat symbolic, basically as a s**y piece of underwear, since only someone you were intimate with would see a woman's garters in the past.

Answer 2

It's so that you can wear something blue underneath without ruining the white theme.

And all the other stuff that others said too.

Answer 3

Another interesting custom dated back to the ancient times where the wedding garter represented the virginal girdle. When the groom removed the garter from the bride, this represented the bride’s relinquishment of her virginity.

Answer 4

No, its just tradition, its a bit racy and fun is all:)

Answer 5

well its not that important it is just something that has been around for along time that people do!!

Answer 6

How about grasping in the air for a lacy piece of undergarment that until moments ago resided uncomfortably close to the crotch of your buddy's wife?

It used to be that after the bride and groom said, "I do," they were to go immediately into a nearby room and consummate the marriage. Obviously, to really make it official, there would need to be witnesses, which basically led to hordes of wedding guests crowding around the bed, pushing and shoving to get a good view and hopefully to get their hands on a lucky piece of the bride's dress as it was ripped from her body.  Sometimes the greedy guests helped get the process going by grabbing at the bride's dress as she walked by, hoping for a few threads of good fortune. In time, it seems, people realized that this was all a bit, well... creepy, and it was decided that for modesty's sake the bride could toss her bouquet as a diversion as she made her getaway and the groom could simply remove an item of the bride's undergarments and then toss it back outside to the waiting throngs to prove that he was about to, uh, seal the deal.

Answer 7

If you Google "garter wedding" or "wedding garter" you will get a few different websites. Here is one:

http://www.wedalert.com/content/articles...

Answer 8

not everybody does it like this but its suppose to mean however many inches it is up then that is how many years you guys will be married x2.  like it its only 5 inches up then you will only be married 10 years.  and which single guy will be married first, kinda like the throwing of the bouquet.