In your opinion, is it better to have both your and your significant others' parents in your wedding or not have any of them in there at all? Of course they should be there, but where? No matter what you think, why or why not? Thanks!
2007-07-01 17:39:54 · 13 answers · asked by scrappy06 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
as far as being involved, the answer is 99% of the time YES. however, if you mean in the wedding party, the answer depends on you. you may not want your mom to be your maid of honor, but a father can always give away his daughter. my brother had our mom and his wife's mom be the witnesses on the marriage license. if you want them to be in the wedding, you can find a way to include them, but nothing says they need to be standing up there with you as long as you get plenty of good photos with them and say "thank you" and "i love you" at least once on the wedding day.
2007-07-01 18:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by Erica S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one answer YES. Both sets of parents should be in the wedding because they are parents, not strangers. They should be seated during the ceremony with the bride's parents on the right facing the ceremony and at the front seats and the groom's on the left front seats. And during the reception if there is a greeting line, they should be next to the bridge and groom.
If I knew that parents were not invited to the wedding as active participants, I would not attend. This is a family celebration, even if the parents are divorced and remarried.
The only exception would be if the parent chose not to attend and participate OR if the parent had been convicted of child abuse.
2007-07-01 17:51:21 · answer #2 · answered by banananose_89117 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The parents should be there to help plan the ceremony. They attend the wedding and sit in the first row of course. The bride's father walks her down the aisle. At the reception the bride could have a special last dance with her father.
2007-07-01 17:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by Queen JJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure they should. The Mom's usually each light a candle at very beginning of the ceremony (the bride and groom light a unity candle from those 2 the Mom's lit) The Dad walks his daughter down the isle, and the grooms Dad doesnt have a part really other then sitting up front in the designated area up front where parents sit. They should be included anyway possible, without them there would be no you!
2007-07-01 20:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by bigDcowgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most parents are extremely involved in the wedding ceremony and reception. Most parents walk down the aisle of the ceremony together. Some religions have the parents actively involved in the ceremony. At the reception, the parents are announced before the wedding party is. They also have their special dances w/ their children.
2007-07-01 17:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by Answer Girl 2007 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in the wedding party as attendants, if that's what you mean.
Both sets of parents should be involved in the planning and help out with things, but the couple getting married should be paying for their own wedding.
2007-07-01 21:19:17 · answer #6 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not need to be part of the wedding attendants (bridesmaid, groomsmen, best man, maitron of honor, etc.) unless you really want one or more of them to be. Normally, they just attend as honored guests, with a mention in the invitations and/or programs if appropriate and they are brought in by the ushers at the start of the ceremoney and given a special spot in the front pew and a special dance if you are having a reception with dancing.
2007-07-02 05:20:11 · answer #7 · answered by wisegirl1204 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have often seen groom's dad act as best man.
Not very often . . . but occasionally . . . I have seen mother of bride act as matron of honor. That has usually been at a smaller, more intimate wedding. Usually if it is a big wedding, mom is busy helping and organizing . . . has many mother of bride responsibilities. If is usually better at a large wedding to have someone other than mom serve as MOH.
But the choice is yours.
2007-07-02 00:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by Suz123 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they should be there - that's precisely why you have the wedding ceremony to begin with - to share you and your fiance's love with your loved ones, especially your parents. If you invite them, it means you are getting their blessing to get married and start your own life together.
Small or big your wedding may be invite them - they don't have to have a role (if you don't want them to join the entourage), just their presence is enough already.
2007-07-01 18:00:10 · answer #9 · answered by checkmate1212 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only way I have seen them "in" the wedding party is if the groom's father is the best man and that is only when he considered his father his best friend. The mother..not so much. Other than that they are a part of the bridal party as being the parents of the bride and groom. The father walks the bride down the isle and sits with his wife. The mother of the groom is walked down the aisle and sits there also. I haven't seen it any other way, but that is just me.
2007-07-01 17:51:39 · answer #10 · answered by tired 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋