She’s the one in a frock, kneepads and a helmet.
In a story that has AFL recruitment coaches everywhere scrambling to study the wedding videos in super slow-motion, Utah woman Jamie Jackson is boasting 46 marks of the bridal bouquet.
The petite athlete, who is known as “The Bouquet Slayer”, will soon be immortalised in the Guinness Book Of Records for The Most Wedding Bouquets Caught.
The former wedding planner-turned- trainer says she first felt the hunger at her cousin’s 1996 wedding.
“I’m kind of competitive by nature, so when his new bride tossed her bouquet, I went for it,” she told People.
“After that wedding, I just knew that I could do it again.”
She did, and now it’s a full-blown obsession. She’s aiming to reach 50 catches before she retires, or gets married, whatever comes first.
The bouquet toss has divided opinion, it’s been called humiliating bullshit, and insulting, but Jackson doesn’t let the haters get her down. She just sees an opportunity to get her name in the record books, and add to her trophy cabinet full of dead flowers.
Her secret? Like every top athlete it’s preparation, training, focus and a game plan.
“At every wedding I get invited to, I just have to have that bouquet,” she says. “I plot out my strategy as soon as I get there.”