Children In Wedding

One of the weddings I was involved with including a sixteen year old daughter. The husband put a ring on the daughters finger as a way to include her. If they are engraved it makes it even more special. Good luck.

We are also joining a family. His daughter will be a bridesmaid, mine will be the maid of honor. His son will be the best man and mine will be a groomsmen. For our invitations, we are sending out a picture of all six of us and our combined animals. It is a casual picture, depicting a rather casual wedding.

In my wedding my fiance is giving my daughter from a previous relationship and our daughter miniature diamond rings that resemble mine. Somewhat of a promise to all of us when it comes to the vows. For boys I have heard of the same being done with a simple gold band. Just an idea for you.

Thanks for the ideas! Keep them coming! :-) I may work a little bit of each one into the ceremony.

Awhile back, I had attended my cousin`s weddings (all included their siblings, which were either flower girls, bride`s maids, ushers or best men), so here`s my suggestion:

For your daughter: maid-of-honor & flower girl!

For your sons: ushers & best "men!"

Good luck in your endeavors.

Yes, we have our daughter as a jr. Bridesmaid and the older boys as best men and jr groomsman, ring bearer and "sand child" ( instead of flower girl). I love the idea of the family medallion but with their ages I am afraid they would lose them.

I`m getting married in April, a small wedding. We are including our children (5 total) at the end of the ceremony as a surpirse! For the 3 older boys (ages 23, 20, 19) we are buying gold pocket watches, and the 12 yr old boy a watch (he`s been wanting one anyway). For the 10 year (girl) we`re going to get a necklace. Now so long as they don`t find out until the day of the wedding (I`m afraid our cover might get blown during the rehearsal).

Just discussed this last night. Minister suggested that after we do our vows, he speak to my children (3 of them, 20, 15 & 2) and then I do the same to his children (2 of them 18 & 15). We decided to let our kids decide their level of participation and they have opted out, telling us it`s our special day. So it`s all academic, but we thought it was a nice touch.

After divorcing for 18 years (we`ve been dating for the past 8) Getting remarried this October. We share a 18 year daughter. Instead of the traditional Catholic Wedding all over again; I will be walking up the isle with our daughter- semi formal wedding party. There is so much activity for my daughter to do! We are changing our traditional vows to a "family promise". We are still exchanging a new set of rings (for new beginnings) but we bought our daughter a ring which shows our birthstones with hers added to the middle. Then when guests arrive to the church we are handing out decorated mini emergency candles, so that when we do light our unity candle our daughter will light an emergency candle from our flame to take to each grandmother- then the flame will be light throughout the church. We had so many ideas, and for now sticking to the two that we liked the best.

We also have 6 children and want them to be in our wedding.
4 of them belong to me and the other 2 belong to my boyfriend. They are all boys but I don`t know what to do with
Them. They range from the ages of 5-10. We want a traditional wedding and it`s a pretty big party of bridesmaids
And groomsmen. We just dont know what to do with the boys though. I have almost drove myself insane trying to figure it out.

We gave our children, my daughter his son, family medallions and read them each a poem during the ceremony, everyone cried, they are young so we are keeping the medallions with the poems on display with our other wedding stuff they will each get the medallions when they are old enough to take care of them, my best friend married recently also and her husband gave each one of her children a ring and they each poured sand of different colors into one large jar at the same time, really neat, good luck

Andronia,

You did not mention who if anyone was walkng you down the aisle. Why not have the boys do it? I`m sure they would absolutely love it! OR have your boys walk you and for a twist have his boy escort "Dad" down the aisle. I`m sure the guests wil get a kick out of this too.

By the way, Thanks everyone for the ideas!! I`m definatey incorporating some in my wedding. You can keep the ideas coming though ! :-)