Went to a wedding one time with a girlfriend and got pushed into the line of guys trying to catch the garter, not knowing almost anyone at the wedding I felt very uncomfortable participating in that particular ritual so when it was thrown I just stuck up my hand and didn’t even look. Yep, sure enough it landed in my hand and I ended up having to put it on the leg of the chick that caught the bouquet (some other dudes wife) VERY awkward.
“some other dudes wife”
Correction:
“some other dudes girlfriend.....Still awkward.
I truly hate those gross rituals. At one of my in-law’s SECOND marriage (on her 4th now), her husband did that charming and loving ritual of pushing her face into the wedding cake.
P.S.: I feel very sorry for you. That was really awful!
At my husbands sisters wedding, when it was time for her to toss her bouquet to her single friends, I moved to the back. I thought I was out of the way but she threw it extra hard and it hit me in the face. Someone told her that i “caught” the bouquet and she was furious with me for a long time. Finally she confronted me and I was able to convince her of what really happened.
What the heck was a married woman doing in the bouquet-catching mob?
I thought the bouquet-catching mob and the garter-catching mob were explicitly for unmarried people. (First time I attended a wedding after getting married was a relief ... I no longer had to participate in the garter mob.)