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A hilarious video of a woman bucking a popular wedding tradition has gone viral on TikTok.
In the video, a bride can be seen standing on a cobbled street wearing a turquoise puffball sleeve dress, throwing her bouquet in to a group of awaiting women, while a small crowd looks on.
One woman catches the bouquet with relative ease, while the camera then pans over to the side, to show one member of the group chugging champagne, rather than participate in the throwing of the flowers.
The video has the hashtags, #weddingtok #singlelife #loveit.
The video was posted by Eline Kegels, who appears to be the champagne drinking non-participating member of the group, and it has amassed over 2.3 million views, and over 154 thousand likes.
The throwing of the bouquet is one of the numerous interesting wedding traditions that many adhere to—without really knowing why. "Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue," not seeing the bride before the wedding, and the bride being 'given away,' to name a few others.
Many of these traditions have ancient origins, and the throwing of the bouquet is no different. According to wedding advice site Brides, the tradition as we know it today originated in the nineteenth century in England, although prior to the 1800s it was considered good luck to touch the bride on her wedding day.
"Hopeful single girls would often rush the bride—crowding her, touching her—in the hopes that a little bit of the bride's wedding-day good fortune would rub off on them and they would soon be married," Brides writes, and some single guests would even try to tear bits off the bride's wedding dress.
Legend has it, that the bouquet toss was invented so the bride could throw the flowers and then run away and escape the clamoring singletons, who were desperate to elevate themselves through marriage.
As society has evolved and modernized, marriage is no longer a necessity for women, the tradition can be used today as a way for the bride to share the spotlight with the her friends.
Brides recommends getting a second bouquet for the flower toss, as the guest may want to keep it, and you should order your flowers "six to nine months before your wedding."
User Rednaxela.Reherd commented, "I love the Lady with the champagne, she know what is right.."
User Peers247 wrote, "The drink at the end gave me a laugh out loud moment."
User Mercfisher1 said, "There's a legend amongst us."
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