Bouquet and Garter Toss

Count on Wavelength to be your master of ceremonies when hiring the band for your wedding celebration. In addition to wedding party introductions and special dances, we will walk you through the little details that you may wish to incorporate into your wedding reception. After the cake is cut and the father/daughter dance is completed, we typically move right into the dance party celebration. If the bride and groom decide to incorporate the bouquet toss or garter toss tradition into their wedding party, this is performed an hour or so into the reception. We see less than half of the weddings we do actually decide to toss the garter and maybe half toss the bouquet but we're always available to accomodate you in these wedding traditions. Here's a fun background story that we found on both.

The first bridal bouquet did not consist of flowers. Instead, wedding bouquets were originally made of strong herbs such as thyme and garlic meant to ward off evil spirits. Tossing of the garter derives from an English ritual called “flinging the stocking.” Guests would playfully invade the bridal chamber and grab the bride’s stockings, and then they took turns sitting at the foot of the bed flinging the stockings over the heads of the couple. Whoever’s stocking landed on the bride’s or the groom’s nose would be the next to wed.

Bride's Choice Award

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Wavelength has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Maine wedding band! The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds. Wavelength is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. “We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.” We are happy to announce that Wavelength is among the very best wedding band within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings.

We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards!



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