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Traditional weddings will always be close to our heart, but here are 5 traditions slowly fading out by the ultra modern couples.

1. BOUQUET AND GARTER TOSS

The bouquet toss and garter toss are two superstitions that meant whoever caught the bouquet and garter were the next two people to get married. In modern times, catching the bouquet and garter is meant to bring you good luck. However, some brides don’t like the idea of having to “throw away” their beautiful bouquet or perhaps they don’t want to spend extra money on a toss bouquet. Some brides don’t like the idea of their new husband crawling under their dress and tearing off the garter with their teeth in front of an audience and grandma. At the end of the day, the bouquet and garter toss are just an age-old wedding tradition that some people just don’t find necessary anymore.

2. THE BOMBONIERE

Bombonieres are small favours traditionally placed at one's place setting to thank the guests for their attendance at special events such as weddings or christenings. While it is lovely to thank your guests and also have a small memento that represents the special day, we are finding some couples skipping the tradition. Why? Well, there's a few reasons some may choose to scrap the idea. It could be for financial reasons, it could be because they plan on personally thanking the guests after the day anyway, it could be because half the time you’ll find guests leaving behind their bomboniere or it could simply be because the couple don’t feel it's necessary for their guest type.

However, what we would suggest if you still want to do the bomboniere, is be a bit creative and cater to your guest type. Chocolate bombonieres are always a hit, it's modern, fun and caters to everyone. Small donations to a charity on behalf of each guest is a special and meaningful option too and a great way to work within your budget allowance. There are so many different things you can do, but the tradition of sugared almonds is definitely out the window.

3. POSTED RSVP'S

Ok, there is a very practical reason as to why this is fading out and that’s simply because stamps are so damn expensive. When you have a larger wedding with 150-300 guests, that’s a lot of stamps to pay for. Not only to send out the invitations, but you have to include a stamp on the rsvp if you expect guests to post them back to you and we won't even mention what happens if you decide to have a non-standard size envelope. So, what’s the alternative? Well, there are a few ways you could do it, but our favourite would have to be asking your guests to fill out their RSVP card but then sending you a photo of it rather than posting it. By doing this, you still get all the info you need such as numbers and dietary requirements but without the expense of postage (and your guests making the trip to the post box). Win Win.

4. MATCHING BRIDESMAID DRESSES

While matching bridesmaids dresses will ALWAYS look gorgeous in our opinion, we think it’s such a fun idea to dress your bridesmaids differently and we are seeing this more and more over the last couple years. Everyone has a different body shape and style type so why not pick a dress to suit them? Or better yet, give them the choice! If that's a bit too extreme for you, you can still have everyone in the same colour so you are all matching but with each bridesmaid in a slightly different dress style such as different straps or dress lengths. This way, you can still keep with the tradition but give it a modern edge.

5. WEDDING VEILS

We will always love wedding veils and the tradition behind them, however more and more brides are turning their traditional wedding veil into a more modern style or even ditching the veil all together! Short veils, head pieces and swapping the traditional head piece veil for a cape veil are all becoming increasingly more popular, and we are all for it!

There’s no right or wrong way on how to incorporate or not incorporate wedding traditions. We actually love when we see our couples putting a spin on things and turning an older tradition into a modern and fun take. Our take home message is, do what you want! You might have the odd person say “oh they didn’t do a garter toss” but do they really care? No. The day is about you and your forever partner so be yourself and who cares about the rest.

Love, EEA admin xx