Cliche’ Wedding Ideas
05 Mar 2010
Although a wedding is attended by hundreds or often legions of people, never forget that the whole marriage revolves around only two people, you and your partner. You have spent months organising flowers, caterers, Sydney wedding videographers and obviously need the full marriage to be as perfect as possible. Many couples now try and avoid what is thought of as cliché marriage ideas, but the reality is that they have been around for hundreds of years and attempting to have a wedding that does not include at least a couple of them is virtually impossible. Although the wedding day finally belongs to you, the couple, the guests have a tendency to take over the reception and it is difficult not to include some standard ideas into your wedding ceremony and reception.
If you have many guests attending your reception there’s always those initial awkward moments when everybody arrives and takes their seats. Many guests are strangers to one another and getting the entire glass clinking thing going where everyone seems to be screaming for the bride-to-be and groom to kiss is the perfect ice breaker. This was always part of the marriage reception in years gone, it was meant to repel malicious spirits and give the bride-to-be and groom a preliminary moment to ‘connect’ without the malignant spirits being around.
Whether or not the bride and groom would possibly not be too happy with the idea, most of the people who attend the reception will pay special attention to the cutting of the cake. The precise reason and history behind it is unclear, but everybody will cheer and roar if the cake gets smeared into the faces of the bride-to-be and bridegroom. It might not be the most civilised way of eating cake, but it is always a favourite with the guests.
As the evening moves on you are sure to get someone who will start the conga line dance, who can resist that? It often ends up with somebody tripping over one of the children or knocking over a table, which is something else that everybody expects. Even though poor old Uncle Joe will get a scolding for being so drunk, everyone will love the conga.
Just before the bride-to-be and bridegroom depart for the evening the bouquet and garter are tossed. Although the garter tossing is slowly disappearing the bouquet toss is still common at most wedding ceremonies. If this is one of those cliches that you prefer not to do at your wedding reception, be thankful that you aren’t living in the 14th century. Before the arrival of the bouquet toss, the guests would rip at the brides dress to try and tear a piece off as it was considered good luck, but as the tradition of handing down your wedding dress started that faded away and was replaced with the bouquet.
Whether or not you are keen on cliché wedding ideas or not, there is no doubt that they’re going to be around for plenty more generations to come and it is better to get into the spirit when attending a wedding and revel in the traditions that have endured throughout the ages, after all weddings are a celebration of love and unity.
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