Which wedding tradition would you gladly leave behind?

Totally agree with this!!! I am not having a table plan for this exact reason. Only works really with a non formal meal as other wise staff need to know who is having what I suppose x

We're not having a wedding breakfast, a reception, a first dance, a best man, bouquet toss....in factm any of that! Short ceremony at a hotel, then a meal in their restaurant :-)

I thought a meal after the ceremony was a wedding breakfast? (Genuine question. I'm American, and this term isn't used.)

We didn't have a table plan or a top table. Our guests ordered their meals on the day - easy peasy!

I voted for fruit cake.

I've never really like fruit cake, and I think my FH would cry if we had it as our wedding cake. We'll be having chocolate, maybe triple chocolate, maybe mocha, maybe chocolate orange.. Or even Chocolate and Ale!

I'm going to also make an oreo cupcake tower for the sweet buffet!

Bouquet toss for me! Oh and the receiving line, snoozefest!

I love fruit cake, my dress will be white and we will have a first dance. Not sure about a garter though, don't really see the point!

Fruit cake!!

Voting for the bouquet toss - I'm hoping to have mine preserved afterwards so would like to keep them as neat as possible.

we are having a 4 tiered cake, the top being fruit because I like the tradition of keeping that for the next special occasion

I'm quite traditional to be honest but the one I'm not going with is my father walking me down the aisle to 'give me away'. I don't think I'm alone in saying I have no father present in my life and I feel it's now a very outdated tradition. Most people I tell do seem to be quite shocked though that I'm not having anybody walk me down.

Ahhh, Woman-in-White, I am NOT alone..!

I don't have a father, or step father or any other sort of father figure to walk me down the aisle and 'give me away'and there has been much consternation about who I'm going to get to do it... my Mum? My brother? An Uncle?

Ahhh.Uhhh, none of the above... I don't need or want to be 'given away'- I don't like the whole 'females are chattels to be passed around' connotation and at 43, albeit as a first time bride, I am quite big enough to walk down the aisle on my own!!!

This decision has not been taken well by some tho ?

Father giving the bride away. The feminist in me HATES this! The idea that a woman is owned by her father before she is given to another man infuriates me and I will be walking down the aisle alone.

I walked in with my dad (there's no aisle as such in the blacksmiths shop) but nobody gave me away, I asked for that part to be taken out of the ceremony, as I too am a strident feminist. There is potential for compromise, if you want one.