The Wedding Garter Toss

Throw it and Run!
This could not be helped…the garter toss thing…because it is Olympic week and the perhaps the garter toss should be an Olympic event….oh come lets have some fun with this! Who hasn’t been standing there with that deer in the headlights look ….wondering should I make an effort? If I do catch the thing …then what …of course there will be the chatter from the peanut gallery!

Weddings have; and always will be, full of traditions passed down from generation to generation. One of the oldest standing traditions still carried out in modern Weddings is he Garter toss. Writings which date back to the Medieval times of the 18th century record how the guests used to accompany the Bride and Groom to their wedding bed. Now in this day and age we would see this is ‘slightly’ irregular ... I mean your door may always be open to friends and family but this is where some folks just got to draw the line! This ‘group’ procession naturally became rowdier and rowdier and the Brides found themselves being disrobed in an effort to speed up the process. Those Animals!! The Garter toss then became a means of self preservation – a way to distract the group and make a run for it! Personally I think a deadbolt should have a similar effect but.... I just tell you what I have read. The tradition has clearly been ‘tamed’ a little into the acceptable public event we see at receptions today.
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