Eli Rallo Breaks Down Some of the Surprising Traditions She's Ditching for Her Upcoming Wedding

The influencer will tie the knot with fiancé Avery Tiras in June 2026

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• Ahead of her upcoming wedding to fiancé Avery Tiras, Eli Rallo is sharing some of the traditions that she’ll be incorporating into her ceremony and ones that she plans to cut out
• On March 1, the influencer revealed on TikTok that one of the traditions that she and her fiancé won’t be including is a wedding registry for guests
• Rallo and Tiras will tie the knot in June 2026

Eli Rallo is teasing plans for her upcoming wedding.

In a TikTok video posted to her account on March 1, the influencer broke down some of the traditions that are usually staple moments in weddings that she and her future-husband, Eli Rallo, not be participating in. Rallo also made note of some of the other traditions that she and her fiancé would be keeping in as they celebrated their union.

The first tradition that Rallo revealed she would be dispensing with for her wedding was any kind of matching bridesmaids dresses, including the tradition of the bride picking the bridesmaid dress style. "I did not choose the bridesmaids dresses," she then went on to say. "I chose a color, or more so like a color palette, and everybody chose their dress within that color palette."

Rallo said she preferred that each of her bridesmaids dresses captured "the bridesmaids personal style." She added, "It feels very them."

In the same vein, Rallo also said that the bridesmaids and groomsmen in her wedding would not have any tasks to complete during the wedding weekend. "We just kind of wanted them there for moral and emotional support," she admitted. "We just wanted it to be as easy for them as possible. So we've arranged all the transportation to get them to and from wherever they need to go on the wedding weekend, tried to give them as much downtime as possible and just make the times when they are with us really fun."

"I know that people complain about, like, having to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning for bridesmaids duties and spend all of this money," she continued, explaining the context behind her decision. "I wanted it to be as seamless as possible for everybody."

"The only task I can think of that anyone's doing is my maid of honors are going to take my bouquet and fluff out my train when I get to the altar, which I feel like is an easy one. But everybody else? Just moral support. Just moral and emotional support," she concluded.

Another thing that Rallo and her fiancé decided they wouldn't be doing was setting up a wedding registry, something Rallo admitted they had actually gone back and forth a lot on throughout the planning process. "His mom and my mom both kind of wanted us to do one cause they said their friends would wanna bring gifts," Rallo explained. However, ultimately she said she had gone with her "gut" which told her that a registry didn't make sense for she and Tiras' relationship.

"I think they make a lot of sense when the bride and groom does not have nice things or wants nice things," she went on to explain. "Or they have never lived together before, so they need things to start their life together. Or they've paid for this whole entire wedding completely on their own, and as a result, they want gifts. I get all of that."

However, those circumstances were not necessarily the case for her relationship.

As Rallo said, "It didn't feel like something that I wanted, even though we've tried our best to make our wedding as accessible as possible for people — lots of hotels in the area, a full weekend of events so that we're really hosting them and covering lots of meals — at the end of the day, people are already traveling in and inconveniencing themselves for us. We don't want gifts."

Other things that Rallo revealed she wouldn't be doing included having a photo booth or doing a "big" cake cutting moment. Rather, the influencer said they were opting to have a more intimate cake cutting, pulling over their immediate families when they cut it to take photos. In a similar vein, the couple also won't be doing a first look with each other or having a grand exit.

Rallo then went on to touch on a few of the traditional things that they would be incorporating into the lineup of their big day. "We're not sleeping together the night before and we're not doing a first look," she added. "This was my fiancé's idea. He was very much so like, I want it to be as special and monumental as humanly possible. I want to amp up the drama."

"At first I was like, I don't know about that. But the more I thought about it, I was like, okay, we're doing this big wedding, weddings are already kind of performative. Let's lean into the performance," she said. "So we're not sleeping together the night before. I will be spending the night with my two best friends and my siblings at my parents house. And we will not be seeing each other until I walk down the aisle."

When it comes to walking down the aisle, Rallo also said she would be having her dad walk her down the aisle on her big. "I know a lot of brides walk down the aisle alone or with both parents," she said. "I decided to walk down the aisle with my dad, despite the very archaic tradition of your dad giving you away because my dad and I have a really close relationship, and it's something that he's been looking forward to for a really long time, and I wanted to share this moment with him."

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"My mom is being walked down the aisle by both of my brothers, so I think it's kind of nice the family is going down together," she said.

Rallo is also going to be having a religious ceremony, with a rabbi who specializes in interfaith weddings, something that she called "really great" as Rallo herself does not identify as "religiously Jewish."

"We basically customized the entire ceremony with her and kept in the Jewish traditions that felt like they made sense for us," she explained. "We also brought in a couple of other traditions to honour, you know, some of the Christian guests, which just feels like, very unique and very us, which is super cool."

Some other traditions that the couple will be participating in include reading their vows in front of everyone as well as incorporating toasts into the welcome party.

The influencer's upcoming wedding to Tiras will take place in June 2026.

Online, the content creator, who boasts over 1 million followers across her TikTok and Instagram platforms, has been sharing glimpses into how the wedding planning has been going, including updates into her bridal shower and how the food and drink selection has gone.

While Rallo has been excitedly sharing her wedding planning journey on social media, she's also opened up about feeling pressure to create content for her wedding. In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE in October 2025, Rallo opened up about the pressure she feels surrounding content creation during her wedding — and how she feels like it largely comes from within. 

“I know that I could post the worst content ever and it would do really well because the algorithm likes wedding content and they reward that kind of stuff,” Rallo said. “So I am putting pressure on myself to make it good.”

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