Toss Me

Toss Me

February 9th, 2011 @ 2:00 pm by Ms Cheetah
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After the vows, after the food, after the speeches, and dancing there will be no grand exit. We newly wedded Cheetahs will likely be the last to leave our wedding reception, either to retire to our hotel room, or to hit the bars with a number of our guests. While we won’t be leaving our wedding in any kind of grand exit, we still want that moment of walking through our cheering guests as they merrily toss or wave a little something at us. So like many before us, we are moving the “grand exit” moment to our ceremony recessional. Now we just have the choose that little something for our guests to shower (or wave or blow or wiggle, etc…) at us.

Petals

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It’s so pretty and romantic! We are already having a petal scattered aisle, so I think a petal toss at the end of the ceremony might be petal-overload.

Birdseed

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Birdseed is a stand-in for the traditional rice. It seems like it’d be fun to throw…and not so fun to pick out of your hair (and perhaps even cleavage…)

Poms

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Hello adorable! Not as likely to get caught in my fancy up-do, but they do seem a bit heavy and clunky.

Confetti

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A classic tossing item, and I’m partial to large circular confetti. Though sometimes I think it might be a tad boring? Perhaps our wedding colors and some heart shapes can make it more fun?

Bubbles

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As you can see, bubbles look great in pictures and they can be so fun for the kiddies, but I’m paranoid about the soap residue.

Flags

Mrs. Stripes’ so-cute-I-want-to-faint heart flags

I’m totally on board with wedding flags! Although you have to work out where to store them during the ceremony (perhaps on the seats or in buckets near the seats?), and it would be another project to take on. I’m sure the few kids at our wedding would love them, but I also worry that they may love them too much, and wave them throughout the entire ceremony and/or use them as a weapon—because that’s what I would’ve done as a kid.

Ribbon Wands

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These fun wands are another wedding trend I’m keen on. Yet I have the same worries with these that I do with the flags.

Sparklers

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Love! It won’t be dark enough at the end of our ceremony, however, so sparklers are out.

Right now we are deciding between the confetti, flags, ribbon wands, and poms. I think I’m leaning towards the confetti. We could customize it and package it in cute tiny bags—and it will make for some great photos!

Are you having any kind of grand exit at your wedding?

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mjchexum (message) 485 posts, Helper bee

I vote for the large confetti. I think that would be a fun option, and probably the most affordable. Not sure what kind of exit we’ll be making, but if it’s a grand exit, I think we’ll be going the confetti route

2/9/11 @ 2:07 pm (reply)

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Many brides and grooms opt to stay to the end of their reception, and make their exits of their ceremonies the grand exit. Bubbles, confetti, and streamers have been quite popular. The poms seem so fun, although I’d agree, slightly heavy!

2/9/11 @ 2:08 pm (reply)

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tall_jenny (message) 452 posts, Helper bee

I vote for confetti too. I’ve been thinking about doing it for our own wedding. A combination of different sized circles and some hearts would be lovely I think.

It would be easy to make too. just get some paper in the right colours, some punches, and plop down in front of the tv with a bowl or something.

2/9/11 @ 2:11 pm (reply)

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Starckln (message) 27 posts, Newbee

I would HIGHLY advise NEVER to use birdseed — we had over a 100 people throwing birdseed at us as we left the church –the dust from the seeds got all over my husband’s tux (bridesmaid’s came to the rescue and wiped him down with damp paper towels!!), and it got all in my hair, and down my dress — thank goodness the woman who did my hair was also invited to teh wedding so was able to fix everything — we got some nice pictures, but still, to this day, we say it was the WORST decision of our wedding planning
Thought I would bestow my wisdom — the other ideas are just lovely.

2/9/11 @ 2:16 pm (reply)

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missbiscuit (message) 1,050 posts, Bumble bee

OMG is that a LOTR movie reference I spy in your post title? (Either that or I’m that big of a geek that I make LOTR connections when they’re not even there… >.>)

Also- I vote confetti. Especially heart confetti- I think that would be completely adorable.

2/9/11 @ 2:19 pm (reply)

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xtatic1 (message) 778 posts, Busy bee

Our ceremony and reception are at the same location and I am guessing we will stay until the end so I dont’ know how/if we can pull off a grand exit. But if we do I love the bubbles and sparklers. I don’t think our venue would allow anything that makes a mess otherwise though.

2/9/11 @ 2:20 pm (reply)

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808mjm202 (message) 764 posts, Busy bee

We are doing petals as we walk during the recessional…only thing besides bubbles that our venue would allow. I really wanted sparklers though for our end of night exit.

2/9/11 @ 2:21 pm (reply)

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simplifiedbride (message) 885 posts, Busy bee

does your venue have any rules about tossing? i love the paper confetti, but it’s not allowed by our venue unless we clean it up. i think we’re leaning towards flags.

2/9/11 @ 2:22 pm (reply)

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We used lavender for our send off exit. Absolutely loved it. Now every time I smell it, I think of our special day!

2/9/11 @ 2:23 pm (reply)

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hayleybear (message) 22 posts, Newbee

I love the idea of having guests toss something after the ceremony but how will they know when? Are you wanting then to toss as you walk back down the aisle or as you walk out of the ceremony sight? Will there be a little sticker attached to whatever they’re tossing that tells them when, sort of like what’s in these pictures?
http://ellybevents.com/blog/2011/01/pom-pom-wedding-exit/

2/9/11 @ 2:26 pm (reply)

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MOBSavingcash (message) 42 posts, Newbee

You should probably check with your wedding venue to see what is permitted.

I am a MOB - but, also schedule a venue for weddings, birdseed, rice, paper is not permitted.

You will probably want to use something environmentally friendly.

2/9/11 @ 2:27 pm (reply)

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Ms Cheetah (message) 1,188 posts, Bumble bee

@Starckln: Oh no! At least there were quick fixes for the problems and some good photos!
@simplifiedbride: Luckily our venue allows almost everything!
@hayleybear: Yes, we’ll have a note attached that says some like “after they say ‘I do’ please shower the bride and groom with this confetti as they walk back up the aisle.” We’re still working on the wording I love that link you included!

2/9/11 @ 2:32 pm (reply)

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xmofreshx (message) 80 posts, Worker bee

love the lavender idea! also i agree with the above posters who commented their venue might not allow paper confetti. jealous if that is an option for you because i think it looks so cute and great in pics.

i also read something on theknot i think about rice krispies… (they had rice krispies in paper cones for ppl to grab then throw when time) it looks similar to rice in pics, but wont harm birds if eaten (wasnt that why people stopped the traditional rice throwing?)

anyone tried this? im thinking of doing it, but nervous about the residue it might leave on groom’s black tux!

2/9/11 @ 2:34 pm (reply)

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Ms Cheetah (message) 1,188 posts, Bumble bee

@MOBSavingcash: Thanks for the tips! I’ve checked with our venue and they allow all of these options.
@k: What a great idea!

2/9/11 @ 2:34 pm (reply)

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Miss Lox (message) 1,128 posts, Bumble bee

Every time I’ve just about let ribbon wands go, one of you goes and posts something like this! Which is to say, the ribbon wands totally have my vote.

2/9/11 @ 2:36 pm (reply)

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MUI831 (message) 728 posts, Busy bee

While I really like the ribbon wand idea, I’m almost thinking of doing something with the noise makers that you use at NYE. You know, the things that make noise when you twirl them around as well those horns where when you blow through them, the paper unravels? I don’t know if they have actual names. And I’m going to be looking for them in our colors.

2/9/11 @ 2:38 pm (reply)

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FutureSteelFox (message) 155 posts, Blushing bee

I too had the debate (with myself) about how to celebrate our “grand exit” and bird seed and bubbles were a definite no! Confetti was also out because of our venue. We ended up choosing dried jasmine buds from Save-on-crafts.com and we are packaging them in 3.5″ x 3.5″ glasine envelopes with a sticker with our initials and date. They have a whole section of biodegradable confetti options here:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/confetti1.html

2/9/11 @ 2:38 pm (reply)

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xmofreshx (message) 80 posts, Worker bee

@FutureSteelFox:

OMG thank you for that link! i just checked it out and the confettis and such are affordable and look like high quality, not cheap. love it.

2/9/11 @ 2:44 pm (reply)

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