Wedding Traditions

Hey Brides or ForMer Brides


Just curious if there are any Brides who have approached their wedding creatively? Are there certain traditions you have skipped and if so what creative ideas did you replace them with?
It was very important to us to ditch many of the traditional elements that are associated with weddings and receptions. In exchange we added some West African traditions, multiple gowns, skipped the garter and bouquet toss and instead I gifted veils to three of my friends who are bride hopefuls. Keeping in tradition of West African culture we weren’t fixed in RSVPs as we knew everyone would come so we planned around that. Also, although we had a general timeline for the reception we just abandon that and just had a general party vibe lasted into the wee hours of the night. I’m so curious to learn what others have done or are planning to do. Please feel free to share💙💍💙