Digital DJz Receptions Page {Garter Toss} (Disc Jockey Services)

Receptions

The Garter Toss

Much like the bouquet toss and the garter removal, the garter toss is one of those strange traditions that shows up at almost every modern wedding. It started back in the early to medieval times when it was considered good luck to tear off and own a piece of a bride's dress. Once lucky enough to steal a piece of the dress, if you were unmarried you would have the luck to someday marry. Well, this strange tradition eventually evolved into a groom removing the garter of his bride to toss to all the unmarried men at the reception so that the catcher gets lucky. It sure beats bruising the bride, as I bet she'd tell you. And it's still good luck to catch the garter even though you didn't steal it. However the tradition started, it remains one of long-standing tradition at most modern wedding receptions.

When selecting a garter toss song, a wedding planner would be smart to keep in mind all the single gentlemen who are out on the dance floor. A good song would probably express manhood or manly things like toughness or strength. Perhaps the best garter toss songs are ones that express unluckiness in that some men see catching the garter as a loss of their independance and a step closer to commitment. Whatever song desired, from clasical to contemporary to humorous, Digital DJ^z has a large selection of various songs that fit the bill in almost any situation. Just make sure that if you decide to include this tradition with your reception, that you pick a good song because with the garter toss, the hardest part isn't usually finding the right song but instead getting all the single guys to the dance floor. The right song can cure that problem in a flash.

We have included a list of some of frequently used or popular garter toss songs below and we encourage our clients to go over the list and then look for them in our on-line database, listen to them, and decide whether or not that specific song is right for their needs. And if the song isn't and we don't have the song that they seek, we encourage them to contact us with their song suggestion or requests and we will work at getting that song in our database in time for their wedding reception.

Song Suggestions

You are not required to use a song on this list but are instead encouraged to select a song you feel would be most fitting for your reception.

Title	Artist(s)
Wild Thing	Troggs / Tone-Loc
Heaven	Bryan Adams
Kiss	Prince
Oh Yeah	Yello
Bad Boys	Inner Circle
Another One Bites The Dust	Queen
Curly Shuffle	Jumpn' The Saddle
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy	Rod Stewart
Fever	Peggy Lee
Gimme All Your Lovin	ZZ Top
Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye
Macho Man	Village People
Shameless	Garth Brooks
Unchained Melody	Righteous Brothers
U Can't Touch This	MC Hammer
You Can Leave Your Hat On	Joe Cocker / Tom Jones
Rub You The Right Way	Johnny Gill
Hungry Eyes	Eric Carmen
Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
Freak Me	Silk
You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate
The Stripper	David Rose
Legs	ZZ Top
Theme From "Mission Impossible"	Lalo Schifrin
Run To The Hills	Iron Maiden
Welcome To The Jungle	Guns N' Roses

(Some of these songs may not be available on the smaller music systems.)

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The Music

The song you choose for that special moment can set the mood for that moment or it can be combined with the music from the rest of the evening to enhance the overall theme. Either way, there is never a wrong choice in what you choose as the music for your event.