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¿Question #228462?
Jedadeana: What's the worst thing at a wedding you have seen? For those who don't know, it was a "tradition" for a long time (luckily more uncommon nowadays) in the USA for the groom to take a garter off of his bride (ussually with just his teeth) to then toss it to all the single men. [Some went further with that so the one who caught the garter then had to put it on the single female who had caught the bride's tossed bouquet] Mike told me about a wedding he went to years ago where they blindfolded the groom before the garter removal, then replaced the bride *with his mother(!)* .....I guess to be "funny".... ugh

ThroughTheDeckGlass: Inappropriate song choice.
RealGuest: I'm not a fan of the whole shoving the first piece of cake in each other's face. Seems like a waste of good cake. Or at least it should be good cake. And where's the pent up aggression coming from when you are just getting married?
Woelf: An aunt and uncle of mine had like a dozen kids (mostly male) over a 20+ year span, and while I didn't know any of them particularly well, I usually still had to go to their weddings. They did almost every conceivable variation of the garter thing over the years and constantly tried to one-up each other, and it got worse and worse every time. Removal with teeth, the blindfolded swaps (a few where the swapped person didn't even have the garter on), the whole works. Stacy had been along with me to enough of those weddings that we both agreed with pretty much zero discussion that it wasn't happening at all at our wedding. She still did do the bouquet toss, but it was 100% voluntary for the participants, and with no forced dance or anything else after. (At some of those cousins' weddings, sometimes non-married young women would be literally dragged or carried out to the floor for the bouquet toss.)
Inkedad: Meh, I'm guilty of the garter belt tradition (the basic non creepy one), but I'd say any of those surprise practiced dance routines are pretty cringe.
Jedadeana: We're not doing the whole garter removal thing, or even a bouquet toss. I heard a cute alternative though where the couple tossed out stuffed animals so those who caught one were supposed to be "the next to adopt a pet"