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Being forced to participate in a bouquet/garter toss at a wedding

It's your wedding, toss whatever you want. But if I don't want to get up and catch, don't try to force me. All that does is prove you are desperate for reassurance that matrimony is the best thing ever and the unmarried are green with envy at your marriage. Sorry to break it to you, but other people may want different things out of life. If you are really secure in your own decision to marry, the fact that some people aren't dying for your bouquet/garter to magically get them married shouldn't matter to you. Also, I am not your monkey.

— B. Alexander from Long Beach | Other | 4.30.2010 | Comments (4)

Wow, lighten up, Francis. With that attitude, I'm surprised you get wedding invites in the first place.

— joe posted 4/30/2010

As a former bride I totally agree. I didn't want to do any of that crap but kept getting pressure from the DJ of all people! It isn't cute and the tradition of humiliating my single friends just didn't have any appeal.

— Acacia posted 4/30/2010

Seriously, a Stripes reference? Maybe Joe could lighten up. What's it to him? Has he tried and failed to get people to get up for a toss? Maybe he's Acacia's DJ. Haha. Not like this whole spiel was actually said to the happy couple's faces on their big day. Geez. I bring a gift, drink in moderation, smile for the pictures, wish people well, and don't cause any trouble... Unless you count remaining seated and being a little peeved for a moment when the DJ insists (over and over) on rounding up all the singles as some kind of huge "problem wedding guest" behavior - Oh the horrors! A guest is sitting quietly! (Okay, then I sent the peeve here. Oh the horrors! A peevepile post!) Acacia does raise a good point that sometimes these things can get out of the bride and groom's control. Yeah, guess the ire shouldn't necessarily be directed at the one who tosses. The part that's especially full of "attitude" is only reserved for those who insist on rounding up unwilling participants, not to everyone who gets married in general. Obviously people who don't push this stuff on others are secure in their life decisions and considerate enough to know that other people may not want the same thing, and that's okay, to each their own.

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