The Main Event by Memory Makers Event Planning, LLC

Traditionally,   near the end of a wedding reception the bride tosses a bouquet and the groom tosses a garter which he first removes from the bride's leg.   Today, however, many couples are choosing to forgo the tossing of one or both items for several reasons.   Often, when the bouquet or garter toss is announced, young children rush to the front, crowding out the “eligible” ladies and men.    The bride may want to keep her bouquet and she didn't order a separate toss bouquet, or she may be embarrassed by the manner in which the garter is removed (no teeth, gentlemen, please).   Not all couples have single friends to catch the bouquet or garter. And some venues are simply not built for tossing anything if the room is small or the ceiling too low.   If you do choose to toss the bouquet or garter, the following tips can make the occasion more fun and less chaotic and embarrassing.   If a number of children w...

The bride wanted to do something unique at her wedding reception so she decided to have the bouquet toss occur from an airplane. The couple rented a small Autogiro to fly over the reception at a particular time with a friend in the passenger seat to toss the bouquet to a group of single women waiting below. (An Autogiro is a Spanish-designed rotary-wing aircraft that uses a propeller for forward motion and a rotating, unmotorized rotor on top for lift. The plane looks much like a cross between a small two-passenger aircraft and a helicopter.) As the passenger tossed the bouquet, wind pressure caused it to fly backwards into the tail rotor, causing the plane's engine to catch fire and explode and the plane to crash. As the horrified wedding guests watched, the plane crashed into woods near a youth hostel where 50 children were staying. Both the pilot and the passenger survived, but the bouquet tossing passenger suffered facial and head injur...