A Woodside Wedding: We Get Tossed, Part 1

About 45 minutes after dinner ended and we had our first dance, it was time for some wedding activities! First up was the bouquet toss.

I know lots of couples decide not to do the bouquet and garter tosses these days, but for us they were just fun traditions, that have been done at almost every wedding we've been to. So we figured, why not?

Our MC groomsman made the announcement, and ladies started gathering to one side of the bar. I surveyed my targets.

I finally spotted who I was going to aim for, and made sure she knew my eyes were on her!

Then I did a fake out throw! I love the below guest photo because you can see just how badly our officiant's girlfriend wanted to catch it, and my sister looks like she's saying, "hey, what the hell is with the fake throw!"

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I figured more than one fake toss would just be cruel, so I went ahead with the real toss.

I quickly spun around to find out who had caught it.

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Turns out it was my cousin (with her arms in the air in the above photo). This was apparently the third bouquet she's caught, so hopefully good luck comes in 3s in her case!

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Are you planning on doing the traditional bouquet and/or garter tosses at your wedding?

Miss any wedding week details? Catch up here:

- I packed an emergency bag that saved my dress
- We had a crazy 4 days prepping for house guests and stuffing favors
- Shopping for a ton of wedding flowers to arrange ourselves
- Mr. Cola drinks a 40 and I have a night out on the town for our low-key bach parties
- A day of DIY'ing flower arrangements
- I kicked off our official recaps with my #1 wedding tip
- We began the weekend festivities with a sunset cruise for our wedding party
- We rehearsed our quick and easy ceremony
- I panicked, but we got our rehearsal dinner decorations set up just in time
- Our families met for the first time at our rehearsal dinner under the trees
- What went wrong on our wedding day, and my tips for future brides
- My bridesmaids and I got our hair and makeup done in the hotel suite
- I put on my wedding dress and became a bride
- The guys watched the World Cup, then got ready in 10 minutes
- Traffic delayed our decorations getting to the venue, and I almost ruined our first look
- We got to see each other for the first time on our wedding day at our first look
- We took some time for bride and groom pictures in the park
- I gave you a behind the scenes look at our family, friends and DOC setting up our venue
- Arriving at our venue and getting ready for the ceremony to start
- Everyone walked down the aisle
- Excerpts from our ceremony, and reading the vows we wrote for each other
- I interrupted our officiant, we exchanged rings, and with a kiss we were officially married!
- Wedding party and family portraits, and my thoughts on missing pictures
- Our guests enjoyed cocktail hour while we took a few more photos
- Everyone ate a delicious dinner, and our siblings gave beautiful toasts
- We didn't practice, but we had a very special and wonderful first dance as husband and wife
- I showed you some disposable camera pictures, which were totally worth it to include on our tables!

(Unless otherwise noted, all photos in this post were taken by the very talented photographers of Shoot Me Now Photography)

Corset Wrapped Bouquet Mock Up

As much as I would love to keep writing about random inspirations or my beautiful dress, it's time to move on with all my other little projects (at least until the dress comes in and I can discuss alterations!).

With all the talk between my mom and I lately about flowers, I thought I'd share this little 10 minute mock up with you.

She was having trouble understanding what I was looking for in the ribbon on my bouquet, and I couldn't find the picture I'd seen in a magazine somewhere. These images were pretty close:

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But still, none of these were exactly right, so I decided to (gasp!) do a real life mock up instead of PhotoShopping one first.

I started with some green straws for the stems, and wrapped two white napkins around them for the fabric. I'm hoping to use extra fabric left over from shortening my dress, so it will match. I then took some purple ribbon, folded it in half, and used a small dot of glue at the halfway point to attach it to the top of the napkin. I then carefully wrapped it, criss crossing it all the way down, and used another dot of glue to secure the ends, cutting off the excess. I basically did the same thing for the chocolate ribbon, but alternating where I put the criss crosses.

Next I used some leftover pearl stickers down the front of the stems (I'm guessing pearl tipped floral pins will work better when we do the real thing). I think I want a loop of pearls around the bottom of the napkin/fabric too, but didn't want to waste any more pearl stickers for this proof of concept. And as I write this and look at the pics again, I'm thinking I might want to alternate pearls and crystals, to better match the bling on my dress.

Here is a raw picture of the mock up:


And here is a picture of the mock up with the background removed and sample flowers (these aren't the flowers I necessarily want, just an example of around the size of the arrangement I'm going for).

Did you have trouble figuring out exactly how you wanted the ribbon on your bouquet wrapped?

(last two photos in this post were taken by me)